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In the last two years, Chile’s history has been marked by the debate to reform its national Constitution. Land rights, environmental protection and water management were key topics on the agenda. One of the most significant aspects of this process was the participation of indigenous peoples in the Constitutional Convention, which was presided by an indigenous woman, Elisa Loncón. But the constitutional proposal was rejected in a referendum in September 2022. The prospects for land rights reform in the near future are minimal.  
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Land Area
74,353,200 ha
GDP/Capita
25,449.1 USD

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16 December 2019
Ercilia Araya is the President of  Pai-Ote, a Colla Indigenous community of 60 people in the Atacama Region of Northern Chile.  Since 2014, Ercilia has been criminalized and harassed for defending her community’s land rights against mining projects, and denouncing the pollution of sacred water…
19 November 2019
Increasing demand for avocados is generating unprecedented consequences in certain parts of the world, such as intense water scarcity in Chile's Petorca region.   Avocados are one of today’s trending superfoods. The fruit has a variety of beneficial properties including richness in antioxidant …
07 November 2019
Chileans have been taking to the streets around the country to protest economic inequality and a democratic system set up after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that many say is not responding to people's needs. Indigenous Mapuche protesting in Temuco, a city 420 miles south of the capital of…

Chile

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The project is well embedded in the SDC Global Programme Climate Change's global approach to face climate change in the land-use sector through increased regional cooperation and strengthened joint information and negotiation platforms. The fundamental rationale of ANFOR is that through the consolidation and up scaling of advanced conservation mechanisms, significant improvements in the conservation and sustainable management of Andean forests will be reached, improving the livelihoods of Andean farmers and concurrently addressing climate change.

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Donors:
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

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United States dollar
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USD
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6000000
Project duration:
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United States dollar

General

The project is well embedded in the SDC Global Programme Climate Change's global approach to face climate change in the land-use sector through increased regional cooperation and strengthened joint information and negotiation platforms. The fundamental rationale of ANFOR is that through the consolidation and up scaling of advanced conservation mechanisms, significant improvements in the conservation and sustainable management of Andean forests will be reached, improving the livelihoods of Andean farmers and concurrently addressing climate change.

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Donors:
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Government of Switzerland
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In some cases, the demands of investment projects create inequality in the distribution of local resources. This is the case in the Atacama Desert, where mining companies are working to extract lithium. Chile has one of the world’s largest lithium reserves and for its extraction it is necessary to use water. 

26 December 2017
The legal rights afforded to Indigenous communities in Bolivia and Chile differ greatly. Val Reynoso investigates.  Bolivia and Chile differ significantly in the ways their governments address issues pertaining to Indigenous peoples. These differences are caused by the neoliberal economic system…