“Opportunities phenomenon” is a project aiming at collecting information on the opportunities that might have appeared after El Niño phenomenon in the Piura region. The work is mainly done in Sechura.

Goal: Create a interdisciplinary and multisectoral research consortium to understand the desert-El Niño system in the diet in Sechura, in the north of Peru as a way to improve resilience in the long term in cyclical environmental impacts in the short term.

Source of funding: St Andrews University.

Scope of intervention: Sechura, Piura.

Duration: December 2019 – December 2020.

Expected Results:

1. Build an interdisciplinary platform to examine the connection between the desert, the El Niño phenomenon and the diet.
2. Collect baseline information about the El Niño phenomenon, effect, historical data (use the past to understand the present and better predict and plan for the future).
3. Assess current systems (maritime and continental fishing, agriculture) and combine the social sciences approach in livelihoods with fishing and agricultural sciences in order to address food systems from an interdisciplinary perspective.
4. Develop a model for production (fishing in lake-sea and agriculture), processing and commercialization to take advantage of the new opportunities generated by climate change in order to make more sustainable the systems involving desert, diet, El Niño phenomenon and livelihoods.
5. Articulated management for the provision of alphabetization service offer in 2020 through CEBA Hancuire.