1. Study Area 5 2 3 4 1 9 6 7 8 Communities’ list 1. La Union
2. Yerbas Buenas
3. Monte los Olivos
4. Pueblo Libre
5. Naranjal
6. Cunchuri
7. CCNN Puerto Belén
8. CCNN Caco Macaya
9. CCNN Junin Pablo 1 6 9 7 8

2. CC.NN. Caco Macaya Location: Iparia District
Access from Pucallpa: 10 hours by private boat, 20 hours by public boat.

3. CC.NN. Caco Macaya
Foundation: Approx 39 years old Number of Families: 800 families, but just 122 are reported.

4. Actividades productivas
Main activities:
Agriculture (household consumption)
Fishing for household consumption and sale
Handicraft and sale of seeds
Day labour outside of the community
Complementary Activities:
Logging
Livestock (household consumption)
Business (grocery store)

5. Main crops Household consumption and commercial: Cassava Plantain
Maize
Tubers (sachapapa, camote, daledale)

6. Agricultural land available
Area
Soil type
Features
Highland
Clay soil
Abundant but
Improductive
Restinga
(no flooding lowland)
Sandy soil
Productive
but scarce
Barrizal
(clay and mud)
but scarce and seasonally
Lowland
Beach

7. Interventions ’90s -> Sugarcane project (not working aymore)
1993: European Union through Spanish nuns -> community reforestation.
1998: INRENA (now OSINFOR- Organismo de Supervisión de los Recursos Forestales y de Fauna Silvestre-) -> family reforestation (10 participants).
Till August 2014: timber extraction from a private company «Empresa Capirona».
2014: Foncodes’ Project «chacra emprendedora» about implementation and maintenance of family chacras.

8. Conflicts related to natural resources
Conflict with CCNN Puerto Belén for the use of timber present in the border between the two community territories.
2014: The community has a fine because the company Capirona cut trees outside the permitted area declared by OSINFOR (60,000 $)