SANREM CRSP

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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
Sub-watershed Jatun Mayu river Tiraque - Bolivia
June, 2007
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Why the Andean Region?

• Project Objectives
• Create options for more effective management and
  sustainable use of resources in livelihood
  activities.
• Identify, evaluate, introduce and promote
  sustainable natural resources-based alternatives
  for livelihood strategies.
• 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)

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Project Partners in Bolivia

• PROINPA Foundation
• Promotion and Research of Andean Products
• PROMIC
• Program of Integral Watershed Management
• CERES
• Studies Center of Economical and Social Reality
• UMSS ? Universidad Mayor de San Simón
• Program of Genetics and Biodiversity
• Hydraulic Laboratory

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Sub-watershed Location
Department of Cochabamba
Sub-watershed Jatun Mayu river
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Sub-watershed of Jatun Mayu river
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The Sub-watershed

• Social Organization

AGRARIAN CENTRAL
PEASANT Sub-Central
PEASANT COMMUNITY (Agrarian Syndicate) Main
Organization
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The Sub-watershed
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Livelihood Alternatives

• Validation and Diffusion of Integrated Crop
  Management (ICM)
• Technologies in middle and upper sub-watershed
  zones
• POTATO
• Comparison among ICM technology offer and
  farmers traditional technology
• Setting of costs production and economical
  analyses

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Livelihood Alternatives

• Validation and Diffusion of Integrated Crop
  Management (ICM)
• Technologies in middle and upper sub-watershed
  zones
• FABA BEANS
• Comparison among ICM technology offer and
  farmers traditional technology
• Setting of costs production and economical
  analyses

• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Natural Resource Management
Development of Erosion and Degradation Risk
Map From Land sat image with resolution of 15 m.
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Natural Resource Management
Erosion 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.
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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.

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Watershed participatory planning
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• PROJECT STRATEGY

KNOWLEDGES GENERATION
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
Natural Resources Biodiversity Environmental
Impact
Models Generation Economics, Erosion, Fertility,
etc.
Social Capital Construction (Organizations)
Local Government Local POLICIES
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• Thank you
• Questions