Project profile — Inclusive development of the green tara value chain in Bolivia

• Bolivia (100.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (20.00%)
• Agricultural development:
Agricultural development (31120) (20.00%)
Agricultural co-operatives (31194) (20.00%)
• General Environmental Protection: Bio-diversity (41030) (20.00%)
• Multi-sector/General environmental protection: Household food security programmes (43072) (20.00%)

• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Climate change mitigation (significant objective)
• Gender equality (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (principal objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Nutrition (significant objective)

The Inclusive Development of the Green Tara Value Chain in Bolivia - SAYARIY (Quechua language word that means to stand up, with strength and energy to consolidate our work and achieve our dreams) project aims to ensure economic, social and environmental sustainability of producing families, mainly from indigenous communities. The tara pod is extracted from the seeds of a tree high in the Andes. Tara is a high value crop used in the tanning of premium leather. Its seeds are used as stabilizing ingredients in cosmetics and food. This Andean plant improves soil quality, promotes biodiversity and helps combat the impacts of climate change. The project aims to regenerate tara production by planting new trees in areas where it had disappeared and where the land is severely degraded. It also contributes to developing the entire value chain from production to marketing, in order to guarantee its profitability, increase the annual income of families and ultimately stimulate the local economy. Finally, the project aims to increase the resilience of vulnerable indigenous populations to climate change and to the diversification of agroforestry in rural areas of Bolivia. Increasing the family income of tara producers will contribute to reduce their food insecurity and diversify their income-generating activities.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased incomes of indigenous rural families producing tara with a climate-smart agri-environmental approach promoting gender equality. This also includes adaptation to climate change and food security; (2) improved organizational, environmental, financial and gender equality performance of the organizations that govern the tara green value chain. It is also about the equal participation of indigenous women in the inclusive and sustainable development of the tara value chain; and (3) increased commitment of municipalities in favor of gender equality and the fight against climate change. In a context where families in rural Bolivia are hard hit by climate change and poverty, the project will improve the resilience of 3,000 rural indigenous families, including 1,800 women. This project must also, indirectly, benefit 5,000 other indigenous families and generate 10,000 jobs in the 23 municipalities of its implementation.

Results achieved as of March 2024: (1) allowed 76.2% of the people to have the knowledge to diversify and increase their income within a climate-smart agro-environmental approach; 2) allowed family businesses to plant 203,997 tara plants; 3) allowed 15 municipal autonomous governments (out of 23) to have the capacity to promote and develop solutions for gender equality.

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