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 New Grants
Asociación para la Investigación y Desarrollo Integral (AIDER)
$120,740 over two years, in collaboration with the municipal government of the district of Tambo Grande, to enable the families of the indigenous communities of Távara and Locuto to improve their methods of breeding pigs and sheep and to learn to grow vegetables using hydroponic farming techniques. Farmers and their families will benefit from the project by increasing their incomes from the sale of pigs and sheep and improving their nutrition through the consumption of meat. (PU-499)
www.siperu.org/aider/aider.htm
Bosques del Norte, S.A.
$205,350 over two years, to provide agricultural technical assistance, training, and marketing support to farm families implementing sustainable agricultural practices in the semi-arid carob forests of northern Peru. (PU-486)
Centro de Asistencia Proyectos y Estudios Rurales (CAPER)
$135,600 over two years, in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Huaura and the non-governmental organizations Asociación Parroquial de Acción Social (ASPAS) in Pativilca and the Instituto de Educación Rural (IER) in Mazo, to assist beekeepers from different rural districts in the provinces of Huaura and Barranca to improve the production and marketing of honey and to sell it through a jointly owned and operated microenterprise. (PU-500)
secrur.ls.net/caper.htm
Centro de Estudios y Desarrollo Social (CEDES - APURIMAC)
$200,000 over two years, to provide to small-scale farmers in the district of Pichirhua, Abancay, loans, production supplies, technical assistance, and marketing support in the commercial production of pear cactus fruit, honey, and small livestock.
(PU-493)
Centro de Investigación y Promoción Social "Sara La Fosse" (CIPS)
$230,000 over three years, to carry out an integrated program of irrigation, agricultural and livestock production, and health and nutrition education for rural families in Collambay, Sinsicap, and San Ignacio, in the department of La Libertad in northern Peru, and to assist community organizations as well as public and private sector collaborators to form a local development coordinating group to sustain local development initiatives. (PU-497)
Empresa Multicomunal de Servicios Agropecuarios Arapa-Chupa de R. Ltda. (EMUCOSA)
$138,950 over two years, to improve the income and well-being of farm families in the municipalities of Arapa and Chupa by training farmers, enhancing the genetic quality of local sheep flocks, establishing facilities to maintain animal hygiene, improving the quality and productivity of local pastures, and constructing and operating a processing plant to produce chalona, a salt-dried mutton. (PU-492)
Instituto de Gestión de Cuencas Hidrográficas Samanga (IGCH)
$227,207 over three years, to work with grassroots organizations in watershed areas in the mountainous region of Piura department, near the Ecuadorian border, the Ayabaca district municipal government, and Peruvian government programs and businesses to create small-scale irrigation systems, improve eroded hillsides of forests, and create community-operated rural enterprises that are environmentally sound and financially profitable. (PU-498)
Instituto Peruano de Apoyo al Desarrollo Integral Comunitario (IPADIC)
$224,530 over three years, to work with the San Juan district government, a local dairy plant, the Network of Men and Women Promoters, the Association of Municipal Agents, and families in rural areas in the San Juan district to establish the San Juan Bautista Loan Fund and the Municipal Rural Development Operations Center to help families improve agriculture, dairy, and forest production and marketing, and to form the San Juan Municipal Development Group. (PU-495)
Instituto Peruano de Investigación y Desarrollo (IPID)
$195,600 over three years, to provide technical assistance in production and design, loans for greater production capacity and efficiency, and marketing services to enhance the economic viability of small-scale artisan enterprises producing ceramic crafts in Chulucanas district, and to provide employment for artisans. (PU-494)
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