Practices and Strategies to

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LTR4 ADAPTING TO CHANGE IN THE ANDEAN HIGHLANDS
Practices and Strategies to Address Climate and
Market Risks in Vulnerable Ecosystems 2006-2007
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Our Team
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Resilience or Trap Assets and Ability to Recover
from Shock and Stress
Adaptation - Resilience
Livelihoods
Poverty Trap
Time
Ability to Recover is f (number type of shocks
assets)
About depletion of assets and poverty traps
Ellis Zimmerman and Carter Valdivia et al de
Waal and Tumushabe Sheik Sacks et al
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The projects five objectives

• Develop a shared understanding of the ecosystem
  drivers of change in Andean Ecosystems.
• Measure the role of market and climate risks
  (objective and perceived) on livelihood
  strategies, and the role of assets on risk
  perceptions and strategies. Response to
  perceptions of the relative risks associated with
  these changes.
• Explicitly link local and new knowledge to
  produce practices and information that provide
  alternatives to adapt to change
• Evaluate and identify market integration
  opportunities and institutions that contribute to
  resilience.
• Develop methods that integrate these knowledge
  systems, build capacities and capabilities to
  adapt to change pathway that enables research
  impact

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Overview of Activities
Objective 1
Objective 2
Objective 3
Objective 5
Objective 4
Soil Fertility Quinoa Information Networks Local
Forecasts IPCC projections Inter-learning Forages
Soils Coalitions
Market Access Regional (MAPA) Gender Value
Chains Credit Services Advocacy Coalition Crafts
CPAs Mappings Stakeholders Synergies Out-scale Up-
scale Advocacy Coalitions Group
Approaches Inter-Learning KASAP Pathways
Baseline Livelihoods Markets Climatology Trends Lo
cal Soils Pests Diseases Agro-Bio Land Use NNRR
Risk Perceptions Vulnerability Mapping Risks Shoc
ks Coping Communic.
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Study Sites Vulnerable Populations High Regions
in Tropics Multiple Shocks Climate
Change Opportunities Site Selection
Rationale Lake effects Rainfall
Differences Elevation sites
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ANCORAIMES
-Four sites -3850-4300 -Transect -120-150Km - 480
mm
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Umala
-Four sites -3,770 - 4,070 -Plains and
Hillsides -117-140 Km -450 mm
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Intervention sites
SANTA MARIA
Peru
APOPATA
3,900m 340 Has 60 Fam 400-600mm
4,400m 13,000Has 80 Fam
Puno
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Participatory Approaches to Understand
Perceptions Risks, and Vulnerabilities
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Participatory Maps Chinchaya Land Cover, Land
Use Change, and Vulnerabilities
BEFORE
Erosion, Drought, Frost
AFTER
VULNERABILITY
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HIGLIGHTS - PEOPLE

• 12 Rural Communities
• 450 households interviewed
• 180 farmers participating in research groups
• 350 farmers and researchers participated in CPAs
• 200 in Field Days

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Highlights Degree and Non Degree Training

• Non degree
• Training of researchers surveys, CPA,
  participatory methods, GIS (13 events)
• Training of farmers pests and diseases,
  management, repellents, management of forages (22
  events)
• Participatory assessments with farmer groups (27
  activities)
• Degree training 27 students
• 11 Licenciatura
• 12 MS
• 4 PhD
• CIDES UNALM

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Linkage Highlights

• Collaborating at Sites
• Puno UNA, CIRNMA, CARITAS, SIERRA SUR
• Ancoraimes CIPCA, UNDP DDP, Municipality,
  Prefectura
• Umala ALTAGRO, PapaAndina
• Stakeholders
• Title II USAID National Program of Climate
  Change CIP- NRM ALTAGRO Save the Children
  CIDES CIPCA CIRNMA Sierra Exportadora
  PRONAMACHS

• UNDP Small Donations Program (30,000)
• ALTAGRO CIP
• National Program of Climate Change
• Desarrollo Rural CIDES
• Additional funds
• Brown, Fulbright, and Henry A Wallace - 53,500
• US National Center for Ecological Analysis and
  Synthesis -51K