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Food & Farming

Harvesters used to cut down a whole aguaje palm to reach one bunch of fruit; in Maijuna territory they now climb it, and the peat swamp underneath stays wet.

391khectaresMaijuna-Kichwa Regional Conservation Area
20kfamiliesFamilies in Loreto and Ucayali earning income from aguaje
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Asociación ANDES (Asociación para la Naturaleza y el Desarrollo Sostenible)

Potato Park (Parque de la Papa)

Food & Farming

A Quechua-led biocultural park in the Peruvian Andes where six indigenous communities collectively steward more than a thousand native potato varieties in their original mountain landscape.

1,400varietiesNative potato and Andean tuber varieties conserved
6,000peopleResident population
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AGUAPAN (Asociación de Guardianes de Papa Nativa del Centro del Perú)

AGUAPAN: The Andean Potato Guardians

Food & Farming

Quechua and mestizo highland farmers organized into a self-governed association to keep thousands of native Andean potato varieties alive in the ground, not just in gene banks.

101familiesFarmer families conserving potato landraces
9regionsRegions of Peru involved
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