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CONDESAN is an organization committed
with the sustainable natural resources
management that contributes to
mobilize the wealth of the Andes to
overcome poverty and social exclusion
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Strategic areas of work
Andean basins
Sustainable Rural
Livelihoods
Biodiversity
1. Global changes and their impacts
2. Rural societies dynamics
…focus on
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Institutional Programs
We seek to mobilize our allies to generate regional synthesis,
dialogue on policies and share information and knowledge base on
problems related to sustainable development and natural resource
management in the Andean ecoregion
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ANDEAN MONITORING
Network of 22 sites: Venezuela to Argentina
More of 7000 km with social and environmental
gradients
Producing information to facilitate analysis from
the local (micro) to the regional(macro)
Articulate more than 60 organizations all over
the Andes
1.Biodiversity monitoring
2.Carbon Monitoring
3.Hydrological monitoring
4.Land use and cover change monitoring
5.Livelihoods monitoring
7. 1. Payment for hydrological enviromental
ecosystems
2. Rural innovation in agricultural system
3. Climate change in the Tropical Andes:
vulnerabilities and adaptation
8. Only in this year we have the following process soported and facilitated:
1.Water, Food Security and Climate Change
2.Knowledge Rural Communities
3.Linking Science and Policy
4.Hidrological Monitoring in Andean Ecosystems
5.Andean Forest Monitoring
6.Benefits Sharing Mechanisms
500 organizations (research centres, NGOs, Governmental agencies and international cooperation organizations) have cooperated to bring innovative approaches to the issues impacting Andean people’s livelihoods and their natural capital. More than 2000 researchers have participated in different capacities in more than 200 projects executed under CONDESAN's umbrella. At the same time, with these projects we have strengthened the capacity of 300 students who are the new generation of researchers and decision makers in the Andes.