Bio-diversity

The project includes native communities tacana, with 770,000 hect entitled TCO areas including 661 families, also are migrant families in the South of the country (Potos, Chuquisaca and Tarija). The base of the economy of the regi n this focused on output n rice, pl tano, yucca and ma z, 50% for your marketing n in local markets and the restanten for consumption of the families themselves. All the rea project, with the advance of the frontier agr tail happened until today, n saves a considerable amount of natural resources as part of its biodiversity and ideal for the development of Biotrade activities, as is alan strategies of sustainable development posed by Council Ind gena of Tacana people (CIPTA) and the Federeaci n Union of agricultural producers of the Abel Iturralde province (FESPAI) as parent organization of communities peasant. The project is part of a process underway, the first phase of car investigative character, was oriented to establish the potential fruits of Palm trees, in this second phase and given the results obtained has a car character of n scale pilot implementation. The main objective of the project is implementing BIOTRADE activities based on the use of the fruits of Palm trees, seeking to solve the following problems: 1. the degradaci of their natural resources, the advance of the frontier agr tail by increasing n migration from the southern part of the country and the pr practices of habilitation are putting at risk the vegetationwater sources and biodiversity. 2. the lack of sources of work, since there are no alternative econ micas sustainable and profitable; the cost of production of rice, the main crop n is greater than the cost of the coming from Santa Cruz, although this is lower quality. 3. the lack of VRA n of biodiversity, since the area has a considerable amount of natural forest resources which are both potential nutritional value as commercial but unknown to the local population.

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