Restoring, conserving and expanding mountain pastures and wetlands and improving communal management in Canchayllo, Peru

Instituto de Montaña
Publié: 28 novembre 2016
Dernière modification: 21 février 2023
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Résumé

An Ecosystem based Adaptation measure was implemented by the community of Canchayllo and The Mountain Institute in partnership with the Nor Yauyos Cochas Landscape Reserve and IUCN. Our adaptation solution combined traditional (indigenous), local knowledge with the latest science and comprised three components: (1) Strengthening community organization, (2) Strengthening local capacities and (3) Combined green and grey infrastructure. Working together with scientists and practitioners, Canchayllo community members decided torepair awater dam and rehabilitate anold, unused water channel.

 

This led to the recovery of a network of ancient ditches in the communal farmland and surrounding areas that now supply water to 560 ha of pasture lands. In addition, the water is recharging temporary ponds and underground aquifers that supply water to pits and springs in the lower part of the Jaramayo micro-catchment and the Cochas - Pachacayo sub-basin.

Classifications

Région
Amérique du Sud
Ampleur de la mise en œuvre
Local
Ecosystème
Agroforesterie
Pâturages
Toundra, prairie montane
Écosystème agricole
Écosystémes des prairies
Thème
Acteurs locaux
Adaptation au changement climatique
Connaissances traditionnelles
Distribution d'eau et gestion des ressources en eau
Géodiversité et géoconservation
Indigènes
Planification spatiale terrestre
Restauration
Défis
Sécheresse
Chaleurs extrêmes
Recul des glaciers
Hausse des températures
Décalage des saisons
Utilisations conflictuelles / impacts cumulatifs
Érosion
Gestion inefficace des ressources financières
Manque d'autres possibilités de revenu
Manque de sensibilisation du public et des décideurs
Mauvaise gouvernance et participation
Conflit social et troubles civils
Chômage / pauvreté
Objectifs de développement durable
ODD 1 - Pas de pauvreté
ODD 5 - Égalité entre les sexes
ODD 13 - Mesures relatives à la lutte contre les changements climatiques
ODD 15 - Vie terrestre
Objectifs d’Aichi
Objectif 1: Sensibilisation accrue de la biodiversité
Objectif 7: Agriculture, aquaculture et sylviculture durable
Objectif 10: Ecosystèmes vulnérables au changement climatique
Objectif 11: Aires protégées et conservées
Objectif 14: Services des écosystèmes
Objectif 15: Restauration et la résilience des écosystèmes
Objectif 18: Connaissances traditionnelles

Emplacement

Distrito de Canchayllo, Departamento de Junín, Perú | Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve, Peru

Défis

• Weak communal organization.

• Difficult access to the communal area and low level of local participation at the beginning.

• Initial mistrust towards the project.

• Only 41% of the population (mainly livestock farmers) reported to depend directly on ecosystem services (related to pasture and water).

• Difficulties in matching local expectations with the EbA approach due to conflicting interests within the community and among authorities (i.e. livestock farmers versus those who look for alternative income opportunities such as mining).

Bénéficiaires

• Direct: 60 families related to livestock-farming in the rural community of Canchayllo.

• Indirect: 150 families (approx. 700 persons) in the community of Canchayllo and population living in the middle and lower part of the watershed.

Comment les blocs constitutifs interagissent-ils entre eux dans la solution?

The building blocks are articulated in a way that contributes to the initiative’s sustainability. The technology-based infrastructure combined with activities to strengthen technical and organizational capacities build the basis for the measure’s sustainable implementation and maintenance.

 

• Strengthening of community organization

• Strengthening local capacities and knowledge

• Infrastructure/ Recovery of technologies

Impacts

The water storage capacity of the community area improved due to repairs made to the Chacara lake dam. In September 2015, a flow of 184 litres per second was recorded. With the rehabilitation of the main channel, Chacara-Jutupuquio (2,855 m), water availability in the upper part of the community increased. Wetland zones and troughs were formed and an ancestral water channel was recovered in the area under collective management. This restored channel—a combination of a PVC pipeline and infiltration ditches with water distribution and regulation functions—supplies water to 560 hectares of native pastures and grazing sectors.

 

The probability of fires was reduced due to higher humidity in the pastures. Bird sightings, such as ducks (Anas flavirostris), have increased. These can be spotted in the lagoons or temporary qochas (natural ponds), which are formed by the water that runs through the restored channel and system of ditches. Three hectares of native pastures have been recovered in a natural way through demonstration plots.

Histoire

Instituto de Montaña

Testimonial of Gonzalo Quiroz - Head of the Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve

"Unlike other projects that come with a pre-established formula and say 'I have to do A, B, C, D and these are my indicators and my results', I think one of the benefits of this project may have been that it was possible to design it during the term. Unlike other projects that have everything encapsulated at the start, and say 'well I have to do this and I cannot even change the name of the activity'.

I think that has been one of the positive things about this project. [...] It is a matter of ownership, right? It has not been a parallel construction process or that one has developed it without the intervention of the other, I believe it has been a common planning process and this has been reflected in the master plan and in the activities that have been implemented.

We (Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve and The Mountain Institute) have aligned with each other and I do not think that was for a mandate, it has not been an order. It was because it was of mutual benefit, because we are two institutions that intervene in the same territory. The logic is that we have to support each other because in the end these activities are implemented for the benefit of the population, not of the institutions. [...]

Ideally, we form one single team and I think that has worked, because we made the calls and invitations in a common language. Both institutions signed one invitation letter and both your staff [The Mountain Institute] and ours [Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve] helped to ensure the call, participated in the workshops, participated in the activities ... So it hasn´t been a process of orders in the beginning and empowerment in the end, this process we have designed and carried forward together with a common goal. So as an institution, we are implementing this common goal.

If I'm going to work on the issue of ecosystem restauration to improve the water harvest, well, it will be a minimum of three years, four years to do the infrastructure, pasture management, sensitize people to implement that management and to see how that ecosystem or that ecosystem service that is part of the pasture, that is the fodder, begins to improve the quality of life of the people."

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