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Achievements
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| Adding
Value Locally |
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local level research/development activities were aimed at
understanding, developing value added products and processes
that add value to farm products and connecting them to markets.
The GMP co-supported activities that connect communities in
the Andes to markets with new, value added activities for
local products. The knowledge gained from the research and
development activities on the grass roots level is often applicable
widely when adapted to local circumstances. Examples of these
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- The reintroduction of traditional chuño varieties
of potatoes in the Andes where they were no longer cultivated.
The reintroduction was promoted to enable local communities
to take advantage of new market opportunities by making
to make 'chuño', naturally freeze dried potatoes.
The product offers additional income as demand for chuño
is increasing. A second advantage of the action has been
increasing the genetic diversity in the area with local
germplasm that had been kept in CIPs ex situ germplasm collection.
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- The promotion of quinoa production.
The program has supported activities that have increased
the yields of Quinoa from a mean of 520 Kg/ha to 1430Kg/ha.
Value added processes were introduced including grain selection
for various markets, processing for 'flakes' in breakfast
cereals and flour.
32% of farmers produce quinoa
organically. It has led to demand form Japan, Chile, Canada
and the USA.
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- The production of high standard quality cheese with surplus
milk for the processing industry. GMP and partners supported
farmers technologically, with organization, market access
and with technologies. Participating farmers increased their
income by 30 to 200%.
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- Training of women in knitting export quality alpaca sweaters
and linking them to markets. This work together with partners
has increased income is approximately 20-40% from a previous
level of income around $350.
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- Documenting the status of agricultural genetic diversity
with IFPRI and Makerere University. Much genetic erosion
had occurred to sweet potatoes, potatoes, beans and peas
as many varieties were lost completely and others were on
the verge of extinction. Other threatened crop species were
finger millet (Eleusine corocana. L), wheat (Triticum aestivum),
and pumpkins (Cucurbita spp). The most underlying cause
of genetic erosion as mentioned by many farmers (93.7%)
was introduction of new varieties.
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(Mbabwine Y, Sabiiti E.N., Kiambi D. (2005). Assessment
of the status of Plant Genetic Resources in Kabale Highlands,
Uganda; A case of cultivated crop species. Commissioned
by GMP to IPGRI. 71pp)
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- Supporting CIPs seed-systems research,
in particular the testing and introduction of new potato
late blight resistant germ-plasm in East Africa and decentralized
clean potato tuber production systems using positive selection.
Actions with over 2400 farmers in Kenya and Uganda had substantial
impact on on-farm quality of planting material and yields.
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| Adding
value internationally |
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At the global
level the GMP has supported development of tools and technologies
of broad application and the development and adaptation of tools
of broad use, knowledge exchange between continents and capacity
building.
The GMP has supported the development of information, tools,
and technologies for international use.
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| Decision making
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- From 1999-2004 the GMP provided
much support to the NRM program of CIP to develop user friendly
GIS based modeling tools to support decision making on land
use and livelihood strategies in mountain environments.
To develop the models efforts were made to characterize
the mountain regions, ecosystems, develop dynamic maps and
models. These tools were developed together with other national
and international partners and are available on CD. The
tools have been used to compare mountain regions of different
continents. In addition, individuals in Latin America, Asia
and Africa have been trained in the use and adaptation of
the models. One of the products was a toolbox to facilitate
decision making in NRM and rehabilitation of watersheds
in the Andes, Hindu-Kush Himalayas and East Africa. There
is strong demand for these tools by partners in different
continents.
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| Policy
support |
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- ICRAF was supported to coordinate a study on mountain
land use policy in the East African Highlands. The study,
conducted at the University of Nairobi, concluded that few
of the NRM policy studies had had much effect on policy.
Some common sense lessons learned for policy development:
For successful community management of forest resources,
the local community has to appreciate the value of the forest,
own the resource (even if it is co-ownership with the state),
control its use, monitor and enforce regulations, have mechanisms
of resolving conflicts and discourage incentives to exploit
it for short term individual gain.
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(Ritho C.N., (2005) ‘Review of Natural Resource
Management Policy Studies in the East African Highlands’.
University of Nairobi, Commissioned by the GMP through AHI
152pp )
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- With the SARD-M porject at FAO and CONDESAN we conducted
analyses both at the national level in Ecuador, Colombia
and Peru and workshops at regional level, including interviews
with upper watershed groups and a regional workshop in the
Andes with civil society and government representatives
in March 2007. The results are being analysed on a global
level by FAO.
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Bustamante, F., Rodriguez D. Moreno A. (2006) Mejora
de las politicas de apoyo para el desarrollo sostenible
de las montañas: caso Peru. GMP-CONDESAN-SARD-M 107
pp.
Moreno A., Rodriguez D., Otero W. 2006. Mejora de las
politicas de apoyo para el desarrollo sostenible de las
montañas: caso Colombia. GMP-CONDESAN-SARD-M
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| Conceptional
Frameworks for bringing research and development together. |
- The GMP has spearheaded strengthening Rural Urban Linkages
(RULs) as a integrative conceptual framework for supporting
sustainable mountain development. The first benchmark sites
is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We have set up with the government
of Ethiopia the framework for dialogue and action in connecting
rural with urban issues. A key event was the national rural
urban linkage planning workshop held in August 2006. There
a RUL linkage platform and key action areas were agreed
on. The platform has been agreed to by Ethiopian Government
chaired by state ministers. Research support is being provided
by the GMP and the research support group. Donor groups
are highly supportive of this initiative.
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| Capacity
building |
- In the late 1990s a mountain Fellowship
Program was set up which trained 4 PhD students from the
Himalayas.
- In 2004 the GMP began managing
a PhD capacity building program for Latin American NARS
for the Government of Spain. Through this program the GMP
aims to also increase capacity in sustainable mountain development.
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| Information
and advocacy |
- The GMP financed the relaunching of the Africa Node of
the Mountain Forum and co-supervises the node manager with
its partner, the African Highlands Program (AHI). (www.mtnforum.org/rn/amf.cfm).
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The relaunching is enabling better
information exchange on mountain issues for mountain groups
and is closely linked with the international network of
the Mountain Forum based in Nepal.
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- The GMP participates actively
in international platforms for mountains. It is a strong
participant in the International Mountain Partnership and
with CIP organized together the Government of Peru
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the 2nd International Mountain Partnership meeting in
Cusco 2004, which was supported by the Governments of Switzerland
and Italy.
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