Main Objective

Specific Objectives

• Diversify the supply of the community to address nutritional deficiencies,
• Enhance the use of traditional medicinal plants to address health problems and empower the community concerning their own health management, both preventive and curative,
• Strengthen the financial autonomy of these populations by generating a new source of income saling the overproduction of food and healing plants
• Introduce animals in the family gardens management

Action Area

• Amazone province of Loreto

Beneficiaries

• 4 Community around Fray Martin de los Porres, 1,000 inhabitants

Project carrier NGO

• LATITUD SUR

Local partnerships

• KAPITARI Foundation

International partnerships

• CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency)
• Good Planet
• Lea Nature

Institutional partnerships

• IIAP (Instituto de Investigación de la Amazonía Peruana)
• UNAP (National University of Peruvian Amazon)
• Gorel (Regional Government of Loreto)

Obtained results
(or expected)

• Families produce medicinal and food plants,
• Families incorporate animals in their chacras
• Families use medicinal plants produced on their land,
• Families diversify their diet,
• Families sell overproduction.

Site web reference

• www.latitudsur.org

Actions in progress

• There is a variant of the project with a reforestation activity on degraded lands around the community.
• The outlook is also to implement the same principle of chacra in communities nearby.