Side Event
Impacts of Terminator Technology on Indigenous Peoples in the Andes: Results of a consultation with Quechua farmers in a Center of Origin and Diversity of Potatoes
Organizer
Asociacion Quechua-Aymara para comunidades Sustentables
Date and Time
24 January 2006 18:30 - 20:0
Seventy-one indigenous leaders and community members from six districts and twenty-six communities in the Andes and Amazon of the Department of Cuzco gathered in the civic center of the remote mountain village of Choquecancha, Peru on the 26th and 27th of September to discuss the potential impacts of Terminator technology on indigenous biocultural heritage, food systems and livelihoods. The result of the workshop, organized by The Association of Communities of the Potato Park in Pisaq, the Cusco-based Association for Nature and Sustainable Development (ANDES) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), was a formal declaration signed by workshop participants for submission to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and key Peruvian ministries with the aim of contributing to international pressure to ban Terminator once and for all. The results of this workshop will be presented in this event.