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Asociación para la Naturaleza y el Desarrollo Sostenible (ANDES)
Cusco-based NGO that supports Quechua communities to conserve their agrobiodiversity in biocultural territories such as the Potato Park and to earn income from ecotourism, handicrafts and natural products made by collective micro-enterprises.
How can Asociación ANDES help your biobusiness?
- What it offers
technical assistance in native potato and agrobiodiversity conservationsupport for collective community micro-enterprisesscaling of the biocultural territory model
- At what stage
- I'm already operating
- Who it serves
- Indigenous communities
- Products
- Native potatoes, Community ecotourism, Medicinal plants and oils (unspecified), Handicrafts (unspecified)
- Where it works
- Cusco
How do you access Asociación ANDES?
- Can you apply directly?
- Yes, it serves biobusinesses directly.
- Do you need a business that already operates?
- No
- How hard is it to access?
- Access: no data
- Do you pay or co-fund?
- Free
- Where does the money come from?
- Philanthropic
Mapping classification: It works with the Quechua communities that manage the Potato Park and, since 2024 with Ford Foundation funding, with communities that want to replicate the model. Its focus is conservation and Indigenous rights; the sources do not say how to access its support, hence no data on complexity.
Who does Asociación ANDES overlap with?
Organizations in the map working on the same products in the same departments. It is not a declared relationship: it is an overlap in the data, useful to look for synergies.
Sources and references
Dated public data behind this profile. What is published does not reflect everything an organization does.
It supports the Potato Park in Pisac: 9,280 hectares between 3,400 and 4,600 m above sea level with more than 6,000 inhabitants; it also works in the Chalakuy Maize Park (Lares) and the Vilcanota Spiritual Park. Asociación ANDES: página de inicio
In October 2024 it launched with IIED and the Ford Foundation a project to scale the Potato Park model to other Indigenous communities in the southern Andes; the next step is selecting communities in Apurímac. IIED, Entornos por el buen vivir y ANDES: Escalando los territorios de patrimonio biocultural y las zonas de agrobiodiversidad en el cinturón de cobre en el sur de Perú
In the Potato Park the communities conserve about 1,350 potato varieties and run collective micro-enterprises, mostly led by women, in ecotourism, handicrafts and herbal teas, shampoos and plant-based creams. IIED: Asociación ANDES: from local potato farmers to global strategies for protecting crop diversity and Indigenous rights