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Durante el mes de noviembre, Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF), en colaboración con la Autoridad de Fiscalización y Control Social de Bosques y Tierra (ABT) y la Universidad Amazónica de Pando (UAP), desarrolló de manera exitosa la segunda versión del curso Herramientas Económicas para la Evaluación de Factibilidad y Diseño de Negocios Sustentables, correspondiente a la gestión 2016, en instalaciones del Hotel Cortez de la ciudad de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
CSF llevó a cabo en Noviembre un Taller Internacional de Expertos en Incentivos Económicos y Pagos por Servicios Ambientales. El objetivo del taller fue presentar y discutir diferentes temas en torno al diseño e implementación de esquemas de incentivos, con el fin de proporcionar insumos y recomendaciones para la construcción de un Mecanismo de Acuerdos de Conservación que CSF está diseñando para el norte amazónico de Bolivia, en coordinación con Conservación Internacional. Las recomendaciones de los expertos fueron de mucha utilidad para definir puntos centrales del diseño del mecanismo.
We found this long bridge that connected a rainforest community and consumers in the city,” says Alfonso Malky. “It was made of chocolate.” In 2011, CSF’s Malky discovered a complex, but promising web of connections between economics, the environment, and the human condition when he created a market study for the Bolivian chocolate company Selva Cacao (“Jungle Chocolate”).
The Arbol de Piedra, or “Stone Tree,” is a lone 20-foot rock that has been sculpted by wind and sand to look like a resilient yet stunted tree. It’s a good metaphor for the tough life on the Andean high plains, and the icon of Bolivia’s Eduardo Abaroa National Wildlife Reserve.
Since 1998, Conservation Strategy Fund has been committed to making conservation efforts smarter through the use of economics. To celebrate, we're going to be sharing 15 stories over the course of the next few weeks. Each of these stories reflects how CSF's unique training and research programs equip people with the ability to both calculate and articulate the benefits of doing development right. Read our first story below and follow the series through our blog or on Facebook, and share your story at [email protected].
Under the second phase of the Initiative for Conservation in the Andean Amazon (ICAA) of the United States Agency for International Development and in collaboration with Wildlife Conservation Society, CSF is moving forward with the creation of three sustainable business plans for the indigenous Tacana community. The community, located in Bolivia's Amazon region north of La Paz, is home to approximately 5,000 people. Their land is known in Spanish as a Tierra Comunitaria de Origen, and is similar to a Native American reserve in the U.S., designated as a permanent home for the Tacanas to continue their traditions. It is located on the banks of the Beni River in the village of San Miguel del Bala.
Knowledge of economic tools in conservation shouldn't just exist on an individual level. In order to make an even bigger impact on nature, CSF is taking its training to the institutional level this month with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Bolivia. WCS was selected by CSF for our first ever In-House Training, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Andes-Amazon Initiative (AAI). WCS saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks.
CSF has gathered a group of emerging conservation economists in the tropical Andes to help them design research that will contribute to sustaining ecosystems in the region. The program is part of the Initiative for Conservation in the Andean Amazon (ICAA) of the United States Agency for International Development. Today in Coroico, Bolivia, the CSF technical team is evaluating 20 research proposals - finalists from 100 submissions - in order to select up to 10 awardees, who will receive research grants and a year of mentoring from CSF.