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VECCO GIOVE, Daniel  y  PANDURO SALAS, Hitler. Science and social innovation in the Peruvian Amazon from the perspective and experiences of the Urku Center. Ciencias Ambientales [online]. 2021, vol.55, n.2, pp.332-348. ISSN 2215-3896.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rca.55-2.18.

From a summary account of the problem and the various values ​​that emerge in the department of San Martin, a transitional location between the high and lowlands of Peruvian Amazon, we describe the conditions and motivations to create Urku Estudios Amazonicos association, and the pilot program Urku Centre two decades ago. Thanks to the Incagro agricultural innovation program, we were able to articulate with a series of researchers who helped us overcome certain training limitations and approaches, while providing scientific and technical support to local societies advocate to nature conservation and indigenous rights. After the tragic events of June 2009 in the Devil's Curve, the demands of indigenous peoples received unusual support and with this new leaderships emerged and particularly organisation Fekihd in alliance with Urku, applied an innovative strategy of integral development and conservation of ancestral territories, added with economic organizations: Ampik Sacha association, Maray Sisa company and Mushuk Runa agricultural cooperative. The inconsistency of regional policies and the influence of local powers determined limitations in the processes undertaken, while in the Urku Centre we adjusted our objectives in search of raising awareness among the thousands of users that we received each year in the need to promote fairer societies, in harmony with nature. Our institutional experience shows how the local groups with scientific and technical capacity can contribute to the resolution of conflicts or in the advancement of social demands, transferring the power of reason and a jurisprudence on environmental and social issues. By decolonizing knowledge, we bring science as a product and method to the peoples who have much to contribute to the gestation and construction of the future.

Palabras clave : conservation; Huallaga; indigenous people; research; San Martin..

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