ANDES is a non-profit association focused on the relief of poverty through adequate biodiversity management and recognition of communal traditional rights and biocultural resources. ANDES works cooperatively with indigenous organizations at the communal level in the development of adaptive models of biocultural heritage that affirm the rights and responsibilities of the communities and that strengthen food sovereignty and local sustainability. In recent years ANDES has become an internationally recognized organization in the defense of indigenous rights on genetic resources, traditional knowledge and the protection and conservation of centers of origin of native Andean crops and landscape. ANDES is also a pioneer in the promotion and establishment of Biocultural Heritages Areas, based on an innovative strategy that combines conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity and landscape in the development of new strategies of local sustenance and poverty reduction. The Potato Park is an emblematic project of this new proposal of conservation-development.