Fundación Tierra is a no-governmental organization created in 1991 in Bolivia. It works for knowledge generation, focussing on action-research that would contribute to structural changes in Bolivian society, through knowledge generation and sharing of existing experiences. It does so from an indigenous-peasant perspective, based on equitable access to land and other natural resources and on participative processes.
Mission:
Fundación Tierra gets specialized in searching for new ideas and policy-proposals for an alternative rural development that is sustainable and based on an indigenous-peasant perspective, promoting equitable access to natural resources, especially land and territory, with an active participation from below.
Objectives:
Our main goal is to improve the living working conditions, as well the income generating opportunities of indigenous peasants and migrant farmers.
Activities/Main areas of work:
Fundación Tierra structures its work around six main areas of work, namely:
Research: aimed at generating knowledge for development. Within this are of work, there are six lines of research, including: land tenure and land access, territorial and community-led management, land conflicts, Monitoring of land laws, autonomies, land-territory and power relationships and land and food security.
Policy-formulation: aimed at proposing and promoting policies areas that would be rural- oriented and pro-poor.
Capacity-building: aimed at strengthening rural people and their organizations’ capacities.
Participation: aimed at making grass-roots groups actively part of their own development.
Social development: aimed at favoring the full exercise of citizenship’s rights.
Communications and dissemination: aimed at creating spaces for dialogue, debate and analysis of land and land-related public policies among social groups, government, civil society, and development cooperation.
Coverage:
Bolivia
Beneficiaries:
Agriculture Workers, Farmers, Indigenous Peoples and ethnic minorities, landless, pastoralists, Women
