Area: 1,098,581km²
Total population: 9,400,000
Rural population: 36.6%
GDP per capita: $2,714 (France: $26,345)
Agriculture: 20% of GDP (France: 3.6%)
Independence declared: 1825
Sources : Mission économique -DGPTE (juin 2007), Students of the World and « l'état du monde 2005 »
Local Activities
- CORO CORO : project to strengthen grassroot rural strategies for food provision and self sufficiency at Coro Coro.
- FORCAFE : project to support and augment grassroot rural economic organisations amongst the Yungas in La Paz.
- INTERSALAR : project "Sustainability of systems of production and of food self sufficiency in the ayllus in the Intersalar region (Oruro-Potosi)".
- LLICA : project to support rural development in the high altitude zones of the Cochabamba mountain range.
- QALLARIY : project to support rural development in the high altitude zones of the Cochabamba mountain range.
- QUILA QUILA : project agriculture and Andean land management in the ayllus of the Quila-Quila Marka.
- QHARA QHARA SUYU : territorial management is strengthened in the markas in the region of Qhara Qhara
Cross-project activities
- Rural economic organisations : project strengthening and providing support to enhance the capacity of small-producer groups to apply pressure on lifestock breeding policies.
National Coordination
AVSF Bolivia
Calle Ricardo Mujia No. 1008
Esq. Jaimes Freyre
Casilla postal 08999
La Paz
Please contact our programme assistant Edith Schaeffer
for further information on our projects in Bolivia |
