Action area 1 
"THE COMMONS":
Managing common resources for public and private society
Leaders: Dr. Marco Baltensweiler and Dr. Bruno Stöckli

Action area 2 
ANDEAN HERBS AND PLANTS FOR HEALTH:
Actions and philosophy of reconnecting people with the earth using 'Mimacetita'. 
Leader: Amarilda Luque M.Ag.Business
Support: P.Trutmann

Action area 3 
FAIR COMMERCE, QUALITY AND TRACEABILITY:
Case of Cacao, Peru
Leader: Amarilda Luque M.Ag.Business
Support: Dr. Stefan Flückiger

Action area 3 
COLLECTING INFORMATION ON TIME TESTED MOUNTAIN AGRICULTURE :
Understanding and promotion of principles 
of flexibility and risk management
in an age of uncertainty to face the future
Leader: Dr. Peter Trutmann
Support: A.Luque, M. Baltensweiler



​Action 1 
"THE COMMONS":
Managing a common resource for public and private society   
ÁREA DE ACCIÓN 1

​ Leaders: Marco Baltensweiler and Bruno Stöckli


​THE COMMONS ?!   A NEW 'COMMON SENSE' FOR AGRICULTURE

A workshop emphasizing methods beyond dialogue in negotiation​
 Canton Glarus, Switzerland 
11 June 2019  






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Action 2 

ANDEAN HERBS AND PLANTS FOR HEALTH:

Actions and philosophy of reconnecting people with the earth using 'Mimacetita'. 
Leader: Amarilda Luque M.Ag.Business
Support: P.Trutmann
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Finding Huacatay, a delicious native herb of the Andes.
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Checking local markets for information on food herbs and their local use.
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Starting 'MIMACETITA' to promote healthy eating and to reconnect people in urban environments with plants. The initiative has over 1000 followers on Facebook and has supplied herbs and knowledge to hundreds in Lima.
​PHASE 1 : ​Andean herbs for food are a neglected field of importance for well being of people living in the Andes and other mountain regions. 
Most literature on Andean herbs is for medicinal purposes.  There have been few actions to promote the  use of herbs to augment the wellbeing of mountain people in Peru through greater culinary experience and health as well as perhaps in some cases income. ​
PHASE 2: The 'Mimacetita' initiative was launched and developed to help re-connect urban people with plants, health, and the earth and to use as a platform to create community of people with a changed mindset. 
 SEE https://www.facebook.com/mimacetita.limaperu
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CASTELLANO
FASE 1: Las hierbas andinas para la alimentación son un campo descuidado de importancia para el bienestar de las personas que viven en los Andes y otras regiones montañosas.
La mayor parte de la literatura sobre hierbas andinas tiene fines medicinales. Ha habido pocas acciones para promover el uso de hierbas para aumentar el bienestar de la gente de las montañas en Perú a través de una mayor experiencia culinaria y salud, así como quizás en algunos casos, ingresos.
FASE 2: La iniciativa 'Mimacetita' fue lanzada y desarrollada para ayudar reconectar a las personas urbanas con las plantas, la salud y la tierra y usarla como una plataforma para crear una comunidad de personas con un cambio de mentalidad.
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Action  3 
FAIR COMMERCE AND TRACEABILITY:
Case of Cacao, Peru
Leader: Amarilda Luque M.Ag.Business
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Amarilda Luque evaluating native cacao for quality with producers of the cooperative in Pangoa, Peru
 Peru is one of the centers of diversity of cacao and has become a mecca for chocolate based trade.   Trade of indigenous varieties each with their individual flavors is being promoted as an ecofriendly way to help promote welbeing in the easter Andean selva region.  Evermore conditions are being placed on the trade of the product from destination countries.

We reflect on the delicate balance between product quality for consumers and the workload, risk and benefits for families of produces is a key component of fairness in trade and support cooperatives and families involved with information.  
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Action  4 
TIME TESTED MOUNTAIN AGRI-CULTURE SYSTEMS:
understanding principles to face an uncertain future
Leader: Dr. Peter Trutmann


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Vertical Agriculture: a traditional agricultural landscape on sloping mountain sides. Huaraz
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Abandoned terraces, Zurite, Cusco
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Traditional water management systems around lake Titicaca using the waru waru system of raised beds to produce highly productive crops.
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Cultivation of genetic mixtures of potatoes in Huancho Lima, including varieties known to resist hail and factors associated with climate change. N.B. Often varieties promoted as monoculture by agronomist based on varieties originally selected from farmer mixtures.
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Local varietal and species mixtures of potatoes in Huancho Lima, Puno
In 2012 we began a study  to evaluate the status of mountain agriculture and deliberations on development of strategy options needed for revitalisation of agriculture in Mountains  in times of global changes.  The approach was to be based on maintaining time tested knowledge used together with new technological and market options using a strategy of building on what exists rather than as is the trend replacement of one systems with the current model. 

In the highlands  traditional time tested knowledge of food production is being blindly displaced with new forms of agricultures whose lack of sustainability has already be documented. The consequence is rapid deterioration of mountain landscapes and productivity.  It is a key area neglected by international and national policy makers, who currently promote agricultural strategies oriented towards large scale, lowland, export systems that favor flat often irrigated lowlands, large machinery, monoculture and high chemical inputs and attempt to transfer these practices to the highlands. To this strategies of market linkages follow mindsets associated with large scale, boom bust, export oriented economics not appropriate, or stable enough to improve wellbeing for the small family scale mountain agriculture built on local traditions. 

We believe traditional mountain agriculture in the Andes, with its millennia old knowledge of productively managing steep topography needs to be built on and not displaced. Mountain food systems and communities use practices and knowledge based on thousands of years experience of managing the high variability provided by mountain slopes and valleys with specific inputs to produce a high diversity crops and livestock.  Low market prices of traditional crops and overstocking of natural grasslands are causing a cycle of land deterioration that together with lack of incentives is causing large scale migration to politically favoured areas.  There are opportunities provided by technology and new ecological knowledge for appropriate ways to build on the invaluable traditions of existing systems.  

Our aim is to document the mountain systems and traditions, and to develop a map to revitalise mountain agriculture building on traditions, not displacing them, whilst adapting technologies and new ecological knowledge with enabling mountain policies to provide new opportunities and sustainability of the mountain resource base..

The action area remains a secondary priority due to limited resources. 

See also:   https://www.facebook.com/mountain.agriculture

CASTELLANO
En 2012, comenzamos un estudio para evaluar el estado de la agricultura de montaña y las deliberaciones sobre el desarrollo de opciones estratégicas necesarias para su revitalización en tiempos de cambios globales.

En el altiplano, el conocimiento de la producción de alimentos que se ha probado en tiempos tradicionales se está desplazando a ciegas con nuevas formas de agricultura cuya falta de sostenibilidad ya se ha documentado. La consecuencia es el rápido deterioro de los paisajes de montaña y la productividad. Es un área clave desatendida por los creadores de políticas internacionales y nacionales, que actualmente promueven estrategias agrícolas orientadas a sistemas de exportación de tierras bajas a gran escala que favorecen tierras bajas a menudo irrigadas, maquinaria grande, monocultivos e insumos químicos elevados e intentan transferir estas prácticas al tierras altas. A estas estrategias de vinculación de mercado siguen las mentalidades asociadas con la economía a gran escala, el auge de la economía, las exportaciones orientadas a la exportación no apropiadas para la agricultura de montaña a pequeña escala familiar o las tradiciones locales.

Creemos que la agricultura tradicional de montaña en los Andes, con sus milenios de conocimientos sobre el manejo productivo de la topografía escarpada, debe basarse y no ser desplazada. Los sistemas y comunidades de alimentos de montaña utilizan prácticas y conocimientos basados ​​en la experiencia de miles de años en el manejo de la alta variabilidad proporcionada por las laderas y valles montañosos con insumos específicos para producir una gran diversidad de cultivos y ganado. Los bajos precios del parquet de los cultivos tradicionales y la acumulación excesiva de pastizales naturales están causando un ciclo de deterioro de la tierra que, junto con la falta de incentivos, está provocando la migración a gran escala a áreas favorecidas políticamente. La tecnología y los nuevos conocimientos ecológicos ofrecen oportunidades para aprovechar las tradiciones inestimables de los sistemas existentes.

Ve tambien:  
​ https://www.facebook.com/mountain.agriculture