Peru

Our Peru office is based in Lima, where we have spent 28 years cultivating mutually-beneficial collaborations, generating significant achievements in the co-design of agroforestry and silvopastoral systems resilient to climate change, designing incentives for the conservation of agricultural biodiversity, strengthening the capacity for agroclimatic prediction and monitoring of land use change, and contributing technical inputs to define the ‘Law on Mechanisms for the Remuneration of Ecosystem Services’.  

Our research in Peru is based on collaborative work with different actors from the public and private sectors and from civil society, which ensures a lasting impact at different scales. 

• Incentivizing Agrobiodiversity Conservation 

Payments for agrobiodiversity conservation services (PACS) is an incentivizing mechanism that protects endangered plant and animal species with high public values (e.g., for food security, climate change mitigation/adaptation, and biodiversity). PACS ensures farmers' rights and secures fair distribution of benefits from the conservation of genetic resources (in line with the Convention on Biological Diversity, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, the Sustainable Development Goals, and national legislation). 

• Strengthening Capacities in Pest Management  

We work with national and regional partners in the collection, conservation, evaluation and use of banana and musaceae genetic resources. We are also committed to preventing and managing the fungus ‘Fusarium tropical race 4’ (Foc TR4), which severely affects banana production in the country. We have developed workshops to strengthen knowledge and capabilities in diagnosis and good practices in the face of the Foc TR4 and other pests, contributing to the control and eradication of the outbreak of this fungus, based on international procedures and protocols. The joint work has been successful in blocking the spread of Fusarium in Peru.