Peru
Resolution 2/2007 of the Governing Body of the International Treaty encourages Contracting Parties and relevant organisations to submit their views and experiences on the implementation of Farmers’ Rights, as set out in Article 9. This input paper is the contribution of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, based on the results of its international Farmers’ Rights Project....
This publication, the first in a series of reports covering the state of the information society on an annual basis, focuses on the theme of participation. The report has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of ICT policy at the local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; and strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. It...
This paper from Oxfam focuses on how the "right to be heard" concept can strengthen public participation in policy making and accountability.
Recommendations for those upporting poor and marginalised people to lobby for changes in their situation include:
- recognise that change is long-term;
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El Perú implementó un profundo proceso de liberalización y apertura en los años noventa. La apertura comercial, eliminación de restricciones cuantitativas y prohibiciones, políticas de atracción y protección de la inversión directa extranjera, liberalización financiera, y reformas del Estado (privatización,...
While the scientific capacity to forecast El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) extremes, this papers questions the extent to which these advances have benefited vulnerable communities by increasing their resilience to impeding El Niño events. The study captures the perspectives and opinions of communities in Peru concerning their vulnerability to climatic hazards, and the role of...
This book is a synthesis of papers on sustainable conservation in protected areas (PA). It presents a series of papers that provide comprehensive information on 13 PAs: 4 in Latin America, 5 in Africa, 3 in Asia and 1 in Switzerland. The authors note that participation in the protected areas under study was generally better in theory than in perceived practice.
Some of the key...
This report is an output of IIED’s collaborative research project “Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction” and is based on a literature review and three country case studies (India, Peru and Tanzania). It makes the connection between external policy, institutional and economic instruments and processes and the performance of community based initiatives for...
The Farmers’ Rights Project is an international project set up at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the German GTZ, with affiliated experts in Peru, India and Ethiopia. It aims to facilitate a common understanding on how Farmers' Rights can be realised under the...
This issue of id21 insights focuses on children and poverty:
- Make childhood poverty history: About 600 million children worldwide are growing up in absolute poverty. Over ten million children under five years of age die every year. Nearly one billion children will be growing up with impaired mental development by 2020.
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This case study provides an overview of the state of Farmers’ Rights in Peru and of the perceptions of central stakeholders in this regard. As a centre of origin and diversity of important food crops and a country where traditional farming practices coexist with modern and intensive farming, the study offers an analysis of the various and complex issues and problems which arise with...
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