Colombia has 54 areas within the national parks system which cover approximately 10% of the national territory and 511 indigenous territories which cover approximately 25% of the national territory. Some of these national parks and indigenous territories overlap. There is a clear need for management plans for these overlapping areas, for which agreements will have to be made between the national parks and the indigenous communities, but there is no clear method or procedure for establishing management agreements for these protected areas.

While indigenous communities in Colombia need to generate incomes there is a lack of sustainable income-generating initiatives that can successfully contribute to local welfare and the improvement of local livelihoods.

TBI Colombia seeks to answer the following questions:

• How can sustainable economic alternatives be generated at the local level?
• What are the economic, social and cultural constraints on the implementation of such alternatives?
• What basic information is needed to implement such initiatives?

There is little information about the impact of climate change on local livelihoods in the Colombian Amazon. TBI Colombia wants to anticipate the implications of climate change on the livelihoods of indigenous people in the Amazon, especially regarding food security and consumption patterns. Climate change is affecting the annual hydrological cycles in the region. In turn, these changes affect fishing, hunting and cultivation patterns, leaving local people with few alternatives to complement their diet. The activities in this project will generate information related to hydrological cycles and use locally gathered data to analyse the consumption patterns of indigenous people.