Chacra-Huerto Project For Food Sovereignty & CO2 Reduction by Frederique Apffel-Marglin

Sachamama Center • We are a nonprofit organization based in Lamas, Peru • One of our principal projects is to recreate a pre-Colombian Amazonian permaculture in order to improve climate change as well as food sovereignty for small farmers • We work with native communities as well as the Unidad de Gestion Educativa de Lamas (UGEL) teaching this preColombian Amazonian permaculture in middle and high schools • We currently work with four native communities: Solo, Shukshuyaku, Alto Pucalpillo y Alto Zamora as well as the new high school in Wayku, the indigenous neighborhood of Lamas.

• Together with the communities and the UGEL we implement this permaculture in permanent food fields that we call Chacra-Huertos, recuperating degraded lands