Management of vicuña: its contribution to rural development in the High Andes of Peru

by

Luis J. Cueto

Carlos F. Ponce

Erich Cardich

Manuel A. Rios

FAO CONSERVATION GUIDE N�11

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Rome, 1985

TABLE OF CONTENTS

foreword

1. BACKGROUND

1.1 Definition of the problem

1.2 History

1.3 Legal aspects

1.4 Human groups

1.5 Economic returns from vicuña

1.5.1 Direct returns

1.5.2 Indirect returns

2. THE VICUÑA PROGRAMME

2.1 Justification for the programme

2.2 Objectives of the vicuña programme

2.3 Environmental aspects

2.4 Technological aspects

2.5 Social aspects

2.6 Economic aspects

3. PROGRAMME ANALYSIS

3.1 National and departmental objectives

3.2 Campesino communities and the Vicuña Project

3.2.1 Areas providing grazing for vicuña

3.2.2 Agreements with the campesino communities for use of grazing

3.2.3 Aims of the project in relation to the campesino communities

3.2.4 Basic concepts of the project

3.2.5 Productivity of the vicuña and domestic animals

4. CONCLUSIONS

4.1 Experience gained from the project

4.1.1 Achievements

4.2 Problems encountered in the management of this resource

4.2.1 Poaching and its control

4.2.2 Administration of the resource

4.2.3 Distribution of benefits to campesino communities

4.2.4 Budgetary constraints

4.2.5 Relations with other organizations

4.2.6 Marketing of the products

5. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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