Asociación ANDES 2.53

ANDES works cooperatively with indigenous organisations at the communal level in the development of adaptive models of indigenous biocultural heritage that affirm the rights and responsibilities of the communities and that strengthen food sovereignty and local sustainability.
We utilise communal development strategies based on the Andean cosmo-vision and traditional values in an effort that the interventions are holistic, democratic, participative and effective locally.

In recent years ANDES has become in a nationally and internationally recognised organisation in the area of defense of indigenous rights on genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the protection and conservation of centres of origin of native Andean crops and landscape.

ANDES is a pioneer in the promotion and establishment of Biocultural Heritages Areas, based on an innovative strategy that combines conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity and landscape in the development of new strategies of local sustenance and poverty reduction.

Our local project, the Potato Park in Pisac, Peru is an emblematic project of this new proposal of conservation-development.

ANDES seeks to promote Sumaq Kausay (Good Life) in all its dimensions through the promotion and celebration of diversity in all its social, natural, biocultural and spiritual manifestations.