GEF-Agrobiodiversity SIPAM Project: 51 farming families receive compensation for restoring and conserving species of our agrobiodiversity

A total of 51 families from six peasant communities in the district of Cuyocuyo, in Puno, benefited from the compensation granted by the Ministry of the Environment (Minam), for a value of S/ 22,000, in recognition of their work in recovering 22 cultivars of potato, oca, olluco and añu (mashua), which were in danger of disappearing.