Non-Timber Resource Management in the Amazon Rainforest: a Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy from the Bolivian and Peruvian Experience.
Implementation period
32 months (January 2019 - December 2021)
EU grant amount
€ 818,294
Overall project amount
€ 1' 211,917 Euros
Sustainable management of non-timber resources was promoted– like acai or chestnuts – in order to have a comprehensive and sustainable forest management. This strategy sat the basis to create adaptation and mitigation processes to face climate change in the Amazon communities of Bolivia and Peru.
The pilot initiatives of both countries are located in chestnut areas, where the exploitation of this resource is the main source of income for families.
Bolivia:
Peru:
Their lands are located in the external buffer zone of the Tambopata National Park.
Bolivia and Peru:
The productive initiatives and pilot experiences are in the ecoregion of the southeast Amazon, where there are species such as chestnut and rubber tree.
Both countries exchanged learnings and knowledge.
In Bolivia, the non-timber resource management was promoted in the framework of the Comprehensive and Sustainable Forest Management.
In Peru, they worked on the value chains, promoting the principles and criteria of bio-commerce:
Address:
European Union:
Office Expertise France: 73, rue de Vaugirard-75006 Paris.
Office GIZ: Rue Archimède 61, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Colombia
Office Expertise France: Av. Calle 82 # 10-33 Of. 302 – Bogotá, Colombia
Phone:
Expertise France: +33 1 70 82 73 57
GIZ: + 32 2 710 1937
Email:
bosques@euroclimaplus.org
