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Asociación ANDES: from local potato farmers to global strategies for protecting crop diversity and Indigenous rights

As part of our series looking at how the people and organisations working with IIED are successfully creating change, we profile Asociación ANDES, a Peruvian NGO that combines local-level support for Andean potato farming communities with international action on protecting Indigenous Peoples and biodiversity.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectGrains/Cereals/Pulses/Root crops/Fruits; Traditional Knowledge
PublisherInternational Institute for Environment and Development
Publication year(not set)
RegionsLatin America and the Caribbean
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://www.iied.org/asociacion-andes-local-potato-farmers-global-strategies-for-protecting-crop-diversity-indigenous
KeywordsAgricultural biodiversity; Traditional Knowledge