"Together towards Sumaq Kawsay"
ANDES actively works on issues of biodiversity conservation, indigenous rights, and sustainable development.
Event
International Potato Day - May 30, 2025
Join us for a celebration of Peru’s most important crop at the Potato Park on Friday, May 30! …Read More
Publication
The Huaran Declaration
Indigenous Peoples Are the Real Solutions to the Climate and Biodiversity Crises …Read More
News
The International Treaty celebrates International Potato Day at Potato Park
A delegation from the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and FAO-Peru …Read More
About Us
Our Mission
Promote a conservation and sustainable development approach based on the Andean principle of Sumaq Kawsay through the implementation of Biocultural Territories.
Our Vision
Create local capacities and strategic responses to the socio-economic, cultural, ecological and political effects of the globalization process on local communities, as well as the protection of their resources, knowledge and the rights associated with these resources.
Our Goals
- Defense, promotion and celebration of biocultural diversity.
- Sustainable community development
- Innovation to face climate change
- Political advocacy for indigenous rights
- Creation of solidarity networks
Our Impact
The impact we have made.
We promote the horizontal exchange of experiences and policies which value traditional and indigenous knowledge and contribute to the global dialogue on climate change.
Pluriversity - Yachay Kuychi
The Yachay Kuychi Pluriversity (Rainbow of Knowledge), is an international institution of intercultural education and research, and a center of excellence in indigenous food systems and biocultural landscapes
Where We Work?
The Ayllu System
Potato Park
The Potato Park is located in the Pisac district, approximately 40 kilometers from the city of Cusco (Peru), in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. It covers an area of 9280 hectares and is located at a height between 3400 and 4600 meters above sea level.
The Potato Park is not only home to hundreds of cultivated varieties of native potatoes and related wild species, but also a center of Indigenous-led-and-protected knowledge, traditions, and innovations, reflecting a worldview of more than 6,000 inhabitants.
Agrobiodiversity Barter Markets
Chalakuy Maize Park - Lares
Lares is a district of Peru located next to the Sacred Valley of the Incas. The Lares Valley encompasses a territory that stretches from the Amazon basin to the Andes mountains, with an altitudinal range of approximately 1000 meters above sea level to almost 5000 meters above sea level.
The highly varied geography of the area imparts a wide variety of habitats, leading to a remarkable diversity of plant species, both cultivated and wild. Despite this rich diversity of species, Lares is one of the poorest districts in Peru and its population struggles with some of the highest percentages of nutrition-related health problems in the country.
Biodiversity hotspot, Milenary Culture
The Spiritual Park - Q'eros
What is the relationship between spirituality, a healthy ecosystem, and the fight against poverty? In the Canchis, Quispicanchis, and Paucartambo provinces of Cusco, local indigenous communities believe that spiritual practices should be a fundamental aspect of protection policies and development.
Located in a region recognized as a biodiversity hotspot and home to an ancient culture that has experienced little influence from the outside, like the community of Q’eros, the communities have decided to fight the erosion of their culture and their environment, establishing a special conservation area.
Projects & Initiatives
Asociación ANDES collaborates with peer organizations around the world to safeguard biodiversity hotspots, share knowledge in horizontal learning exchanges with other Indigenous People, and advance gender equity with indigenous women and girls.
ARRAMAT
Within the Arramat project (University of Alberta), ANDES and the Chalakuy Park are implementing a local indigenous-led place-based project called «Indigenous Action Research for Participatory Curriculum Development in the Yachay Kuychi Pluriversity.
FIMI
International Forum of Indigenous Women
INMIP International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples.
Follow us on this Exchange in Peru: May 30 to June 4, 2024!
IPA-LAC
It's an initiative supported by the Agroecology Fund and funded by the International Development Research Center (IDRC). The Research Group on the Massification of Agroecology Colegio Frontera Sur – ECOSUR (Mexico) facilitates the learning community and carries out the scientific coordination of IPA-LAC’s participatory research.
