🇵🇪Peru

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.

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.

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.