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Full title of the project:

Rehabilitation of the 2006/2007 natural disasters and preparedness for future events in Bolivia

Target areas:

La Paz and Santa Cruz Departments.

Recipient:

Donor:

Contribution:

USD 1 064 342

31/08/2007-31/03/2009

Project code:

OSRO/BOL/703/ITA

Objective:

To improve the food security of disaster-affected households and develop a pilot system for risk reduction and response to agricultural disasters.

Key partners:

National Defense and Agriculture Ministries, municipal governments and the governments of Santa Cruz y la Paz.

Beneficiaries reached:

6 299 households.

Activities implemented:

Distributed 813 464 kg of potato seed, 45 540 broadbean seed, 19 600 kg of maize seed as well as fertilizers.
Organized training workshops on the correct use of the distributed inputs.
Designed the agricultural risk management system and approved by the local authorities.

Impact:

Planted approximately 776 ha of potatoes, 182 ha of broadbeans and 852 ha of maize.
Harvest an estimated 6 780 549 kg of potatoes, 546 480 kg of beans and 2 045 217 kg of maize.
Increased food availability, improving consumption, sale and better quality seeds.
Provided higher returns through generating income from the sale of surplus production.
Facilitated mapping, through the risk management system, increasing management of agricultural risks and disasters (including the prevention and increased preparedness for agriculture-related risk management).