Peru
To help small-scale quesillo producers in Peru improve their production methods, ITDG trained farmer extensionists on milk quality, production of improved quesillo and other dairy products, business management, organization and leadership, and on basic equipment for quality control of dairy products. These extensionists in turn offered training as well as technical and commercial assistance to...
The tropical portion of the Andean mountainous range plays a crucial role in the future quality of human life on Earth. This ecosystem is currently facing a social and environmental crisis and is in urgent need of pro-active intervention for the recuperation of its fundamental role in the hydrological cycle of the South-American sub-continent. In recent years the accelerated melting of...
HECOSAN is an ecologically managed farm of 3.8-hectare. It is situated in the Chillón river valley of Peru at an altitude of 750 metres, in an area with a dry temperate climate, high levels of solar radiation, an average annual temperature of 24 °C and with annual rainfall of less than 100 mm per year. At present HECOSAN has 2500 guinea pigs, 200 avocado trees, 100 lucuma trees and...
Faced with decreasing productivity and an increasing population, farmers in the district of San Luis in Peru decided to participate in the Ministry of Agriculture’s National Soil Conservation programme. The programme began by setting up a number of “conservation committees” based in the villages. After some years’ progress, San Luis was chosen as a pilot area for a new...
Indigenous farmers in the Andean region of Peru are the most extraordinary innovators and conservers of agricultural biodiversity. The potato originates in this area, and during centuries of experimentation and domestication farmers have bred and selected varieties that thrive in each of the many different ecological niches of the Andes. Conserving these varieties, and the historical,...
The Salazar family in Cajamarca, Peru has been working in the milk chilling business for seven years. In 2001, after three years of struggling to meet the operational costs of their diesel engine, Rosa and her oldest son Javier became aware of the existence of a project promoting small hydroelectric power plants as an energy alternative for isolated areas. They took advantage of the technical...
Approaches such as Farmer Field Schools and Participatory Technology Development aim to promote sustainable development through learning processes based on self-discovery activities and meetings in the field. Farmer Field Schools, in particular, were part of the strategy used by the "Sustainable Coffee Project Peru". But here, documented data has played an important role in...
In the world’s highest tropical mountain range, the Cordillera Blanca of Peru, impacts linked to climatic change, increasing pressures on water resources, rapidly rising petroleum costs and shifting market conditions are threatening the viability of agricultural systems. Currently, these distinct processes of change are converging in ways that significantly enhance and reinforce their...
This document addresses the risk maps that resulted from the experience carried out in the emergency preparedness project in Peru. The methodology will have to be revised according to other more comprehensive risk reduction experiences and strategies that are being implemented institutionally but that lack instruments such as the one described here.
Risk is defined as the probability...
Presque tous les secteurs de la société contribuent aux émissions de gaz à effet de serre et sont en même temps touchés par les changements climatiques. L’ampleur et l’impact du problème exigent des mesures nationales et internationales efficaces et coordonnées – en vue d’orienter les sociétés vers des...
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