| ID: | 75667 |
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| Country: | Peru |
| Title: | Peru - Local Productive Development Project in the Highlands and Rainforest of Peru (Avanzar Rural) – August 2022 |
| Description: |
Erlinda Sejekam Wajajai is 48 years old single mother of eight children. Only her three youngest children aged 20, 18 and 15, live with her, while the others are engaged in carpentry work outside the community. She is the vice president of the Bosque de las Nuwas Association, a group of 70 women from the native Awajun community of Shampuyacu, located in the province of Rioja, in the San Martín region. After having lost most of their forest, the women organized themselves to protect this part of the forest, which was given to them to ensure its conservation, to value their culture, to rescue their ancestral knowledge, to confront deforestation and to generate productive and entrepreneurial development opportunities for themselves. To achieve this, the Nuwas began to work with medicinal plants such as clove huasca, aguaymanto, ginger, stevia and vanilla, with which they were able to produce an infusion called NUWA that helps them to improve the quality of life in their homes. 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: | 16.29 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 |
| URL: | ifad.org |
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