Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (PAND)

Managing Institute:
CARE International UK

Project Code: 098-680-003 Start Date 01/04/1991	End Date: 31/03/1995
Commitment: £381,758	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - JFS

Project Background:
The lack of economic improvement among rural poor is caused primarily by flagging agricultural production. Increased number of subsistence level farm units, deficient land-use practices, Inadequate government services, and outmigration have lead to stagnated food production. Population pressures and declining harvests have increasingly forced communities to divide their lands. Today, these problems push farmers into the Amazon basin, where they unknowingly destroy the fragile tropical ecosystem, or higher into sensitive Andean watersheds. The disappearance of wood products and forage long ago became critical. A dramatic example is the substitution of increasingly scarce straw and grass for firewood in many of the poorer, high-altitude communities. Despite deterioriating environmental conditions, eroded lands can still be economically rehabilitated. Applying conservation measures now will protect lands whose status is not yet critical and forestall further degradation of marginal sites.

Project Objectives:
To increase the income of 9,000 marginal farm families in 160 communities in up to eight Andean provinces through the adoption of sustainable activities by 1996, increasing the production and availability of wood and other forest products.

Intended Outputs:
To encourage the adoption of sustainable land-use practices and increased household self-sufficiency by 9,000 farmers in 160 communities in up to eight provinces by 1996.

To increase thr production and availability of wood and other forest products through the establishment and proper management of agro-forestry practices and forestry plantations by 9,000 farm families in 160 communities by 1996.

The main national counterpart, MAG, will significantly and effectively increase its support to the project throughout all the provinces, by 1993.