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Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Collaborative Research Support Program SANREM CRSP. Long-Term Research Project:. Watershed-based Natural Resource Management in Small-scale Agriculture: Sloped Areas of the Andean Region. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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0,05
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0,15
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0,25
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Nov. 06 Dec. 06 Jan. 07 Feb. 07 M ar. 07 Apr. 07
Markets
US
$
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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