IACD Practice Exchange 2017 – San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, October, 2017
” Andean – Amazonian knowledge and ancestral practices in agricultural systems: potential and challenges”
Following our highly successful 2016 Practice Exchange professional development programme to India and Nepal, IACD is delighted to be teaming up this year with REDAR Perú and CONDESAN and the Pueblo Likanantay de San Pedro de Atacama de Chile, to plan a Practice Exchange programme to South America in October, 2017.
Andean men and women possess an ancient wisdom based on the ancient knowledge for managing soils, water and productive systems, management of cultural diversity. However, adverse policies erode that knowledge, causing a misuse of the soil, concentration of land in a few hands, privatization and pollution of water and the change of the land use for indiscriminate urban growth and extractive activities such as mining. The consequence is the transfer of the poverty of the countryside to the city.
This Practice Exchange will involve expert talks and participative workshop as well as field visits.
More information will be posted in June.
