MainDBDraft: Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve, Peru
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Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve, Peru
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South America
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Academics and scientists; Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners; Private sector
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11/01/2021
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
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Local
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Adaptation planning and practices
Adaptation sector/theme:
Ecosystem-based adaptation
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Drought; Erratic rainfall; Extreme heat; Glacial retreat; Increasing temperatures
Implementing partners:
Campesino Communities of Miraflores, Canchayllo, Tanta and Tomas Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve (NYCLR) Regional Governments of Lima and Junín National Service of Natural Protected Areas (SERNANP) Ministry of the Environment (MINAM)
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Peru
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Participatory processes during the planning, implementing, and monitoring phases, recovering traditional knowledge, is one of the most important strengths, being a key aspect to reach community ownership and sustainability. Running a second project phase, with objectives that include consolidating the EbA measures, gave the opportunity to allocate more time and resources to processes that take usually more than two years’ time. It was a strength. Communities’ dynamics are different, requiring different intervention efforts to reach success. One of the project challenges is being able to meet those different demands. Institutional approaches reach different impacts in working with communities, being a challenge to build synergies to improve the community’s livelihood.
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Florencia Zapata, Mirella Gallardo Karen Podvin, IUCN
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Since 2013, four mountain Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) measures have been designed and are being implemented in the Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve (NYCLR) through participatory processes. These adaptation solutions combine traditional (indigenous), local knowledge with the latest science and comprised three components: (1) Strengthening community organizations and institutions, (2) Strengthening local capacities and knowledge and (3) Combining green and grey infrastructure to restore water flow to native grasslands/pastures and improve livestock and pastureland management--a key adaptation to climate change in the Andes. Working with conservationists, engineers and anthropologists, community members identified and designed the EbA measures according to their own needs and priorities, adapting ancestral and modern technologies to current social and environmental contexts and expected future climate. Mountain EbA measures were designed, implemented and monitored from 2013 to 2015 during the mountain EbA flagship program. From 2017 to 2020 the measures are being consolidated, and monitoring system is being revised.
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Traditional cost-benefit analysis in Miraflores community show a benefit-cost rate of 1.44 (with project and with climate change), with an intern return rate of 25%. After the measure consolidation more benefits were verified but still not evaluated in economic terms. Co benefits include reduction of pasture fires due to the pasture’s irrigation practices, changes in the animal species owned by community members, prioritizing camelids with better fiber price and causes less damage to pastures, among others.
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Case study
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