Arthur Morenas

This research project analyzes the design, circulation, and uses of Siembra y Cosecha de Agua (SyCA) schemes — ancestral water management techniques today promoted as "nature-based solutions" (NBS). Through a comparative approach between Spain and Peru — two territories where water management techniques emerged, with local specificities and differences, that are today grouped under the SyCA category — the project analyzes the politico-administrative, territorial, and socio-productive conditions that enable their re-emergence and adaptation, or that limit their reach. Moreover, these schemes now lie at the heart of reinforced circulations between Andean countries and Spain, and make it possible to examine the new forms taken by international development cooperation around NBS. The methodology combines documentary analysis, interviews, and fieldwork observation with a quantitative approach (prosopography, network analysis, multiple correspondence analysis) designed to objectify the configurations of actors involved, to understand how these schemes are concretely implemented and by which types of actors, and to identify any water-use conflicts they generate.