Peru
Peru is a country in western South America. Peru boasts spectacular scenery, including Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake. Peru's progress has been held back by corruption and the failure of successive governments to deal with social and economic inequality.
Capital: Lima
Population: 28,674,757
Life expectancy: 68.33 years (male) 72.04 years (female)
Population below national poverty line: 44.5%
GDP: $217.5 billion
GDP per capita: $7,600
Religion: Roman Catholic 81%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.4%, other Christian 0.7%, other 0.6%, unspecified or none 16.3% (2003 est.)
Languages: Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, and a large number of minor Amazonian languages
Climate: varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to frigid in Andes.
Peru suffers from many natural hazards including earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, landslides and mild volcanic activity.
Bóthar in Peru:Bóthar began working in Peru in 2003. Bóthar provides project families with alpacas, llamas, sheep, cows, poultry and tree saplings. Bóthar has also supplied veterinary and farming equipment. Bothars projects in Peru put a high emphasis on protecting the environment and using farming methods and tree planting to improve soil quality and try to stop soil erosion.
Peru Project Profile
Project title: Agro-ecological Development in Andean Highlands
Location: 47 communities in the departments of Apurimac, Cusco, Puno
Total number of families: 1,920
Animals: alpacas, llamas, sheep, cows, poultry
Other Inputs: Training, 40 veterinary medicine supply kits, reforestation, eco-tourism facilities, cook stoves
Training: in adequate use of water, soil, flora and fauna, in management and conflict resolution instruments, gender approach, micro-enterprise management, value-added production
Brief synopsis of the project: The project seeks to promote production activities and natural resource conservation, income and food production increases, environmental protection.
Pass-on: Livestock, seeds and experience will be passed on to 2000 families.
Expected benefits:: 143 workshops, 72 exchanges, 120 hectares of reforested land, 2000 organised farmers improved their market relations, 50% of participating communities will have sustainable use of their resources.
Implementing partners: HPI Peru
Local Partners:GTD (Grupo Tecnología y Desarrollo), Kamayog Association of Producers, Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG), Centro de Apoyo al Desarrollo Local (CADEL), Asociación de Productores Agropecuarios de la Micro Cuenca Ollabamba (ASPAMOL), Asociación de Productores de Cámelidos Andinos de Conduriri
Other relevant data: The project region had been approached 20 years ago but had been abandoned due to the political conflict in the region
