UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIA LA MOLINA Established in 1902

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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIALA
MOLINAEstablished in 1902

• WE WANT TO CULTIVATE
• MIND AND LAND
• IUC PARTNER UNIVERSITY

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Pulgar Vidal, 1940

• Megadiversity Peru may harbour the richest
  diversity on Earth with 84 of 103 life zones
  (Holdridge)
• Vavilov Center of Diversity
• Independent origin of agriculture

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• Smallholders, family farming
• Rural population 24.1 (2007 Census), 40
  (independent analysis)
• Over 90 of farms
• Keepers of biodiversity and basis of Peruvian
  culture
• Over 70 of food consumed in Peru
• Essentially poor

INEI, 2009
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Academic overall objective

• Develop, increase, consolidate and
  internationalize UNALMs academic capacity in
  research, education, knowledge transfer and
  innovation in sustainable management of
  agro-ecosystems to generate leadership in the
  Peruvian rural sector by maximizing the
  institutional impact

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Developmental overall objective

• Improving the food security, the local income,
  the stability and competitiveness of the
  agro-ecosystems and thus the overall livelihood
  situation of the local population through
  identification and remediation of key agronomic,
  socioeconomic and environmental constraints of
  small scale family based agriculture in Peru.

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200 - hectare University campus
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UNALM Student body
Faculties Male Female Total
Agronomy 457 267 724
Sciences 266 354 620
Forestry 208 198 406
Economics Planning 599 473 1072
Food Technology 257 276 533
Rural Engineering 231 116 347
Fishery 166 161 327
Animal Sciences 312 185 497
Post Graduate 527 276 803
Total 3023 2306 5329
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UNALM Faculty members
Faculties Full Professors Associate Professors Assistant Professors
Agronomy 41 15 5
Science 40 25 12
Forestry 17 8 3
Economics Planning 26 28 7
Food Science 17 6 0
Rural Engineering 21 14 6
Fisheries 11 6 0
Animal Science 24 9 4
Total 197 111 37
Total professors 345 15 with PhD 150
visiting staff
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PROJECT 1Farming Systems Research

• To develop a generic methodology in farming
  systems to optimize input-output relations and
  sustainability while minimizing poverty in coast,
  highland and jungle of Peru
• Agroforestry
• Horticulture
• Watershed management
• Alpaca breeding and range land management
• Mixed farming systems
• Parasithology of Andean cammelids
• Guinea pig breeding and nutrition

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PROJECT 2Value chains valorisation of crops and
plant materials

• To generate a model of research and outreach for
  the valorisation of plant genetic resources
  native to Peru in order to improve livelihoods
  and promote sustainable businesses for
  smallholders in the major agro-ecological zones
  of the country (Arid coast, Andean highlands,
  Amazon rainforest)
• Dry forest by-products, Sapote gum
• Capsicum
• Native grains
• Transversal value chain economics project

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PROJECT 3 Agrarian innovation and management of
participatory knowledge systems

• Generate a model of participatory knowledge and
  capacities to increase innovation and resilience
  of small producers communities within a context
  of climate change and food insecurity
• Mixed farming systems
• Alpaca breeding and range land management

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PROJECT 4 Education

• Develop innovative educational strategies and
  pedagogic models for sustainable management of
  agroecosystems, including improved MSc and PhD
  programmes
• Integrate ICT in education
• Promote research based education
• Develop education at the IRDs
• Organise extension services at the IRDs,
  parasithology, fertilisation advice, animal
  nutrition, ...
• Managed by the Education Innovation Centre

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PROJECT 5 Strengthening capacities in ICT,
Library and Language Centre

• Increase and improve the use of information
  technologies, libraries and language centre
  within research and educational programs
  assessment of successful educational and
  innovative teaching-learning models
• Ensure a network that fully supports a first
  class university through new technologies.
• Train key researchers in ICT, Library and
  language centre management and networking

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PROJECT 5 Strengthening capacities in ICT,
Library and Language Centre

• Increase and improve the use of information
  technologies, libraries and language centre
  within research and educational programs
  assessment of successful educational and
  innovative teaching-learning models
• Ensure a network that fully supports a first
  class university through new technologies.
• Train key researchers in ICT. Library and
  language centre management and networking
• ICT Library council

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PROJECT 6 Capacity building and infrastructure
development of Regional Development Centres
(IRDs)

• Develop the IRDs to become key actors in regional
  development through research, education and
  extension
• Upgrade extension abilities trough training and
  pilot projects at IRDs facilities
• Promote research activities on sustainable
  agriculture trough pilot projects
• Improve undergraduate and graduate courses using
  IRD facilities

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PROJECT 6 Capacity building and infrastructure
development of Regional Development Centres
(IRDs)
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PROJECT 7 Institutional change and logistic
project support

• To improve UNALMs management capacity,
  leadership and governance and to provide
  institutional and logistic support to the
  different projects
• Logistic support to IUC-projects filling the
  gaps
• Professionalise the administration
• Organise research coordination
• Promotion and publication friendly environment
• Flexible system for program evaluation and
  innovation
• Policies for innovation for the rural sector
• Quality assurance systems and accreditation

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Additional projects VLIR-UOS

• NSS UAV
• CTG school project, ICT in primary schools of
  Colpar-Aramachay (30 PCs)
• CTG school project, ICT in 15 schools in Amazon
  Andes (180 PCs)
• Next generation library towards an Open Learning
  Centre
• NSS Statistical research planning I
• NSS Statistical research planning II
• INCO-education

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UNALM/Pe government counterpart investments

• IRD Yanamuclo rehabilitation 100 000
• New library 500 000
• ICT 200 000
• Operational budgets for UNALM administration
• EIC 50 000 / y
• ICT-office 50 000 / y

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Results and lessons learned

• UNALM
• UNALM is considered as a strong partner for
  IUC-developments
• IUC-program is on track, y 5 at the end of Phaze
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• IUC-PSU fuly operational
• Positive mid-term evaluation
• UNAML is committed to consolidade his position as
  leading actor in sustainable natural resource
  management
• Peru
• Proficiency of English is a problem in Peruvian
  universities
• Poor managerial tradition
• Poor quality of educational systems, first phaze
  of accreditation
• Relatively limited interest in research and PhD
  studies ? missing incentives
• Low salaries of academic staff ? additional jobs
• New University Law

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• Thank you

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Country strategy proposal for Peru

• Focus on Sustainable management of
  agro-ecosystems to alleviate food insecurity in
  poor, rural areas of Peru
• Top-priority for the Peruvian government
• Focus on well-defined and relevant objectives
• Based on existing and operational networks
• UNALM relations with local universities, NGOs
  (FABEB) and Local Research Institutes
• Partially elaborated in the running IUC and using
  excellent contacts of UNALM staff
• PRODERN II (BTC) 13 000 000 euro voor 6 jaar!
• Programa de Desarrollo Economico Sostenible y
  Gestion Estratégica de los Recursos Naturales en
  Apurimac, Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Junín y Pasco
• Possible partners
• Universidad Nacional del Centro in Huancayo
• Universidad Alcides Carrion from Cerro de Pasco
• Universidad Nacional Amazonia Peruana and
  Universidad Nacional de San Martin in the Amazon
  Basin
• Universidad de Cajamarca
• Universidad de Piura
• Universidad de Ica
• Universidad de Lambayeque
• Universidad de Cusco
• Regional Development Centers of UNALM in Costa,
  Sierra and Selva
• Elaborated and form the seed of a possible
  Strategic Network for food insecurity and poverty
  alleviation

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Country strategy proposal for Peru

• Crosscutting Educational Program around a focused
  topic Sustainable management of agro-ecosystems
  to alleviate food insecurity in poor, rural
  areas of Peru
• Establish/institutionalize a network of
  interested and engaged Local Universities/UNALM
• Focus efforts on research integration
  (confronting students with research, involving
  students in research)
• Develop common courses and lecture notes
• Design blended learning strategies to support
  multi-campus education
• Elaborate and install systems to promote quality
  culture
• Develop nation wide educational models that
  foster synergies
• Small research projects (type S-initiative, TEAM)
  on focused topics with limited amount of partners
  (5-6 projects / y) linked to education/experimenta
  l set-ups
• Watershed management, Irrigation, Primary
  production, Soil salinity, Pollution, Export, ...
• Milk production, animal nutrition, pasture/range
  management, milk quality, ...
• Agroforestry, soil degradation, erosion,
  legal/illegal coca production, ...
• ...
• Nation wide educational program 2017 2021?
• Management issues
• Central ? decentralized follow-up and management
• IUC-PSU at UNALM in Lima