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27% (395) of the cooperatives in Peru are linked to agriculture and livestock farming.
En Perú se estima que aproximadamente el 27% (395) de las cooperativas se dedican a actividades relacionadas con la agricultura y la ganadería
Ramírez, A. 2019. Seminarios sobre agricultura familiar y cooperativismo FAO, ACI y Perspectivas de la Agricultura y del Desarrollo Rural en las Américas: una mirada hacia América Latina y el Caribe 2021-2022 / CEPAL, FAO e IICA. – San José, C.R.: IICA, 2021.
60% of the 6,000 potato varieties described in the world are found in Peru, with a total of 3,000 types.
Perú cuenta con el 60% (3000) de las 6000 variedades de papas descritas en el mundo.
Papa, milenario producto andino. Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo de Comercio Exterior de la Cámara de Comercio de Lima. 2018. Consultado el 12 jul. 2023. Disponible en: https://www.camaralima.org.pe/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Papa-milenario-producto-andino-1.pdf
Peru's Andean livestock system is highly heterogeneous structurally, with a predominance of small producers, low productivity and limited access to technical services, which requires differentiated policies by type of producer (Quispe et al., 2022).
INIA Institutional Repository
Revista Científica de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad del Zulia
The study examines how agroecology supports food security and climate change mitigation in Peru. It highlights its role in strengthening family farming, conserving biodiversity, and reducing emissions (Glave & Escobedo, 2022).
Manuel Glave; Jaime Escobedo
Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE), Perú
Climate change threatens subsistence agriculture by reducing productivity and increasing food insecurity, especially in vulnerable rural communities, requiring differentiated policies and local adaptation strategies (Córdova, 2021).
Córdova, H. (2021). Agricultura y cambio climático. Impactos en los subsistemas de subsistencia en los Andes centrales del Perú. Anuario Latinoamericano – Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales, [S.l.], v. 12, p. 121-140, june 2022. ISSN 2449-8483.
Anuario Latinoamericano – Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales.
19 % of the formal workforce in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean are women, although they remain underrepresented in the sector (OECD, 2018).
OCDE (2018), Guía de la OCDE de debida diligencia para una conducta empresarial responsable, OECD Publishing, Paris, ww.oecd.org/investment/due-diligence-guidance-for-responsible-businessconduct.htm.
In the Ucayali Amazon, forest fragments (biodiversity islands) within agricultural landscapes are essential to conserve dominant species, maintain connectivity and design conservation strategies in territories already transformed by cattle ranching and monocultures. (Clavo & Vela, 2022).
Clavo, Z. , Vela, J., Alvez, C. (2022). Biodiversity Islands and Dominant Species in Agricultural Landscapes of the South Western Amazon, Perú. In: Montagnini, F. (eds) Biodiversity Islands: Strategies for Conservation in Human-Dominated Environments. Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, vol 20. Springer.
School of the Environment, The Forest School, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
In the Mariño basin, agroecological practices enhance food self-sufficiency, family income, and create synergies between productivity, climate adaptation, and mitigation (Quispe et al., 2021).
Yésica Quispe Conde; Bruno Locatelli; Améline Vallet; Raúl Blas Sevillano
Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Perú)
CIRAD–University of Montpellier (Francia)
Center for International Forestry Research - CIFOR (Perú)
5.7 million field jobs are generated in Peru from the production of the main Andean grains, including quinoa, cañihua, kiwicha or amaranth and chocho or tarhui.
La producción de los principales de los granos andinos en Perú incluyendo la Quinoa, cañihua, kiwicha o amaranto y chocho o tarhui generan cerca de 5.7 millones de jornales en campo
Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego - Perú,
127 thousand tons of Andean grains were produced in Peru in 2020, supporting the income of 125 thousand families.
En el 2020, 125 mil familias peruanas obtuvieron sus ingresos con el cultivo de granos andinos lo que elevó la producción de los cuatro granos andinos a 127 mil toneladas,
Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego - Perú,
