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Increasing the knowledge and assets of poor families is an effective way to fight poverty. An innovative IFAD-supported project in the southern highlands of Peru provides grants directly to small producers and to farmers’ organizations so they can develop new income opportunities. Project activities are helping participants better manage natural resources and gain access to Internet services, financial services and insurance.

A Peruvian community uses traditional Inca patterns to produce articrafts and sell them to tourists visiting the region.

Sharing, discussing and learning from successful and less successful experiences is the ultimate goal of all learning organizations. Since 2001, with the support of IFAD, a Latin American training organization specialized in rural development has promoted an innovative learning approach known as ‘learning routes’. Participants of a learning route on market access in poor rural territories visited the business enterprises of five associations in Ecuador and Peru and took valuable lessons back to their own activities and communities.

After 14 years of absence because of armed conflict, a community has returned to its homeland in the Peruvian Andes and is learning again how to cultivate the land. FAO's TeleFood campaign is helping them along with the local NGO.

Bella Margarita is a 28-year-old mother living in Santa Rita de Castilla, a tiny rural district located along the Marañon river in the province of Parinary in the Peruvian Amazon.
Bella, like most people in the region, lives in extreme poverty with no access to electricity, health care, clean water or sanitation services.

72-year-old Armando del Arca Huamaní of Peru, a farmer and father of 13 children, is a family man. He is also a former inmate who has served time in prison on drug charges.

The Instituto Tecnológico Pesquero is, together with FAO, carrying out a two-year project to encourage Peruvians to eat anchovies. They are nutritious, they taste good and they are plentiful and cheap.