| ID: | 75790 |
|---|---|
| Country: | Peru |
| Title: | Peru - Local Productive Development Project in the Highlands and Rainforest of Peru (Avanzar Rural) – August 2022 |
| Description: |
Celmira Huamán Rodríguez is a 44 year-old coffee producer who lives in the settlement of Pacaypite, in the district of Jepelacio, Moyobamba, San Martín, and is the president of the Pacaypite Women Entrepreneurs Association. The crisis unleashed by the pandemic presented difficulties for the community's women coffee producers, as the price of fertilizers increased while sales decreased, but the story of the women of Pacaypite is one of working together to help their families and improve society. “We needed to improve production, but always taking care of the environment, so the construction of the compost bins helped us to reduce fertilizer purchases,” Celmira proudly says. The Pacaypite Women Entrepreneurs Association has contributed significantly to the improvement of the quality of life of its community, enhancing the role of Awajun women and their ancestral knowledge for the preservation of the area's native biodiversity and the care of the environment. With support from the government's Avanzar Rural program, they have been able to have their own premises that serves as a production storage center, where they also keep their scales, coffee stackers and a computer. When asked what the greatest achievement for the organization over the past few years has been, Celmira responds: “Our greatest success is being organized and having something of our own.” The Avanzar Rural Project is a priority in Peru’s Post-COVID 19 National Recovery Plan. It will improve family farmers’ productive capacity and access to markets in 101 districts of the Amazonas, Ancash, Cajamarca, Lima and San Martin departments. The project focuses on developing the competitiveness and resilience to climate change of family farmers, in particular women and youth, historically marginalized in economic decisions affecting rural communities. It also spreads the use of low-cost, efficient technologies for boosting productivity, accessing markets and mitigating climate change. Avanzar Rural will benefit 17,400 small agricultural producers organized in cooperatives, productive associations and their families, which represent a total number of 57,420 direct beneficiaries. |
| Size: | 16.59 MB; 6720 x 4480 pixels; 569 x 379 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1778 x 1185 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | Giancarlo Shibayama |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/Giancarlo Shibayama/Factstory |
| Categories: | New from Latin America and the Caribbean |
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