June, 2007June, 2007

Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management

Collaborative Research Support Program

SANREM CRSP

¿Why the Andean Region?

Project Objectives

1. Create options for more effective management and sustainable use of resources in livelihood activities.

2. Identify, evaluate, introduce and promote sustainable natural resources-based alternatives for livelihood strategies.

3. Social capital construction, increase the local governability and contribute to economic and social stability in far away rural zones with degraded resources.

The project is executed in the Andean Zone of Ecuador (Bolivar Province) and Bolivia (Tiraque Province – Cochabamba)

Project Partners in Bolivia

PROINPA FoundationPromotion and Research of Andean Products

PROMICProgram of Integral Watershed Management

CERESStudies Center of Economical and Social Reality

UMSS Universidad Mayor de San Simón• Program of Genetics and Biodiversity• Hydraulic Laboratory

Sub-watershed Location

Department of Cochabamba

Sub-watershed

“Jatun Mayu” river

Sub-watershed of “Jatun Mayu” river

The Sub-watershed

Social Organization

AGRARIANCENTRAL

PEASANTSub-Central

PEASANT COMMUNITY(Agrarian Syndicate)

Main Organization

Lower zone Middle zone Higher zone

3000 - 3200 (masl) 3000 - 3200 (masl) 3800 - 4300 (masl)

Characteristics: 2 communities

Intensive agriculture in rain season and

under irrigation

Characteristics: 10 communities

Agriculture in rain season and under

irrigation

Characteristics: 2 communities

Agriculture only in rain season.

Low temperatures

Main crops

Potato, faba bean, pea, maize, wheat, barley, oat, quinoa grain & vegetables

Potato, faba bean, barley, oat, pea, oca tuber & some vegetables

Potato, faba bean and potato seed in higher places.

The Sub-watershed

Livelihood AlternativesValidation and Diffusion of Integrated Crop Management (ICM)

Technologies in middle and upper sub-watershed zonesPOTATO• Comparison among ICM technology offer and farmer’s traditional

technology • Setting of costs production and economical analyses

Bio-regulators evaluation for high quality potato production

Assay under a design of randomized blocks with 5 treatments and 4 replications.

• Evaluation assay of 3 faba beans varieties (Randomized blocks with 3 replications).

• Variety “Gigante Copacabana” with good outcomes of adaptability in lower and middle sub-watershed zones.

FORAGE PRODUCTION

Participatory appraisal in associated forage production: Oat + Vicia dacycarpa and Barley + Vicia dacycarpa in lower sub-watershed zone.

Livelihood AlternativesValidation and Diffusion of Integrated Crop Management (ICM)

Technologies in middle and upper sub-watershed zonesFABA BEANS• Comparison among ICM technology offer and farmer’s traditional

technology • Setting of costs production and economical analyses

Livelihood Alternatives

Strawberry seedling production in lower and middle Sub-watershed zones and Market Poll Studies

• Implantation of strawberry seedling production demonstrative plots using Soil Conservation practices in sloped places.

• Develop of a Crop Management protocol and quality control

• Market Poll in production potential zones.

Livelihood Alternatives

Crop Rotation Systems in Higher Sub-watershed zones.

• Assay of five crop adaptation in upper sub-watershed zone (8 plots with 5 crops in two different zones).

• Participatory appraisal of whole productive cycle activities of five crops.

• Identification of MACA (Lepidium meyinii) like the best adaptation crop to the upper zone climate conditions.

• Processing and market search for the new alternative in a participatory way with farmers.

Market access studies

Production costs of main crops.

Prices fluctuation in local markets.

• Production costs determination of main crop of the zone (potato, faba beans and cereals).

• Economic analyze, costs and profitability of the identified and tested alternatives in the present campaign.

• Permanent monitoring of prices fluctuation on main crops in four local markets: Tiraque, Punata, Colomi & El Puente.

Monthly average price per market (Potato variety "Waycha" in US$/kg)

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Markets

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Colomi El Puente Punata Tiraque

Natural Resource ManagementDevelopment of Erosion and Degradation Risk Map

From Land sat image with resolution of 15 m.

Topographic Map Geologic Map

Current Land Using Map Slopes Map

Natural Resource ManagementErosion and degradation risk map and identification of case study areas.

Case Studies: Deep research to measure the effects of current livelihoods (potato, faba beans and forage) and the livelihood alternatives (Strawberry, pastures, etc.) in household economy and the environment.

Natural Resource Management

Soil Studies, Soil conservation and data collection to watershed modeling

• Soil analysis and fertility in parcels of Case Study Areas.

• Erosion soil lost monitoring and runoff in parcels of Case Study Areas.

Watershed participatory planning

Community Land Regulation Plan (POP-COM) – Case study(Community of Cebada Jich’ana)

• Two communal workshops to make talking maps and socioeconomic diagnostic.

• Land units raising and development of maps based on IKONOS image with high resolution (1 m)

• Six training workshop in three communities.

• Participation of male and female farmers.

Farmers training (IPM Potato pests: Tuber moth & Andean potato weevil and safety use of pesticides)

PROJECT STRATEGYPROJECT STRATEGYPROJECT STRATEGYPROJECT STRATEGY

Baseline

Socioeconomic Diagnostic

Household economy

Market access

Bio-physical Diagnostic

Soil Studies

Maps: Erosion and Degradation Risk and

others.

Livelihood Alternatives

Production costs and profitability

Effects in: household economy and environment

Social Capital Construction (Organizations)

Local Government

Local POLICIES

Natural Resources

Biodiversity

Environmental Impact

KNOWLEDGES GENERATION

Models Generation: Economics, Erosion, Fertility, etc.

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