Community Conservation and Vicuña Management: Analysis of Socioeconomic Impacts and Governance Structures in the Context of Andean Sustainable Development
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Sustainable development, Governance, Natural resources, Indigenous communities, Nature conservation, international trade.Abstract
The protection of the vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) has been hailed as the crowning achievement of a global biological management strategy, which has been unprecedentedly successful in terms of population recovery. However, there is an ongoing contradiction between this ecological development and the continued impoverishment of custodial populations. In this study, an interpretive theoretical review will be adopted to analyze the socioeconomic consequences and governance issues as they intertwine in community management. In the qualitative stage, documentary triangulation was used to examine the degree of power distribution in the value chain and the place of ancestral knowledge. What it also showed is that local producers only capture between 2% and 6% of the final market value due to oligopsonistic market structures and institutional constraints. Correcting trade imbalances, safeguarding territorial rights, and managing the water vulnerability of wetlands in the face of the climate crisis have also been shown to be necessary to make the model viable.
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