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La voz de la
semillas/The
voice of the
seeds (DVD)
l Asevida Qolla
Aymara,
Paqualqu
Associacion para
la Promocion
Rural, Ceprosi and IIED, 2011
Spanish with English subtitles
This colourful 30-minute DVD was made
with members of the indigenous Andean
community in the Potato Park in Peru in
conjunction with the Andean Altiplano
Programme for Food Sovereignty. It
shows the communities’ relationship to
their land and how their seeds are sacred
to them. They discuss how they nurture
biodiversity and view the GMO debate in
Peru.
n Watch on youtube (without subtitles):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpwdKpAPQNs
For other videos from this programme and
from IIED’s research on democratising
agricultural research see:
www.excludedvoices.org/video
Biodiversity and
poverty: ten
frequently asked
questions – ten policy
implications
l Dilys Roe, David
Thomas, Jessica Smith,
Matt Walpole and
Joanna Elliott
Gatekeeper 150, IIED, 2011
This paper is intended to stimulate
discussion about the linkages between
biodiversity, conservation and poverty
reduction. What do we know, what do we
not know, and what do we need to know?
These ten questions provide a quick –
hence simplistic – insight into a
complicated and convoluted issue. We
would therefore be very interested in your
feedback. Are these the right questions?
And the right answers? What else should
we be asking – and trying to answer – to
better understand (and enhance) the
biodiversity-poverty relationship? Please
send your ideas to: pclg@iied.org. To find
out more about this subject visit the
Poverty and Conservation Learning
Group website:
http://povertyandconservation.info/
n Online: http://pubs.iied.org/14612IIED.html
Association ANDES:
conserving indigenous
biocultural heritage
l Alejandro Argumedo
and Tammy Stenner
Gatekeeper 137a, IIED,
2008
The Association for
Nature and
Sustainable Development (ANDES) is an
indigenous NGO that seeks to defend
indigenous rights to genetic resources,
traditional knowledge and landscape
character in Peru. It was established in
1995 with volunteer staff and no funding,
and has grown considerably over the
years. It now works with 39 indigenous
rural communities, many of whom live in
conditions of poverty or extreme poverty.
It has successfully bridged traditional
Quechua principles with modern
organisational models to assert
indigenous rights to heritage in practical
terms by establishing a new form of
protected areas known as Indigenous
Biocultural Heritage Areas (IBCHAs).
These are locally and sustainably
managed through community
associations; form the basis for local
enterprise (agricultural and cultural ecotourism); involve and benefit
marginalised groups; unite communities;
encourage participation by and
negotiation with indigenous people; and
create a model for future protection and
development. The Potato Park was the
first IBCHA, and brings six Quechua
communities together to protect a 12,000
hectare area as a micro centre of origin of