Table 4.
Component | Stakeholder | Role/description |
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Institutions and other indirect drivers of change |
Nor Lipez herders’ communities llameros |
The caravans depart from the llameros' homes in Bolivia. A propiciatory ritual is carried out at departure, which consists of smoking the animals by burning coa, a local plant. Then, they guide the caravans on a six-day journey across the mountains to Santa Catalina |
Santa Catalina local authorities | Administrative, Religious and recreative activities in town | |
Santa Catalina Fair organizers. Local people associated with the authorities |
Place of exchange Social activities, music, food, football |
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Border authorities | Allow the passage of animals, people and goods from Bolivia to Argentina and back | |
Traders and Truckers with information on Fibre market export companies and processed food wholesaler |
Determine fibre to flour exchange rate, which is the main exchange of the fair | |
Anthropogenic direct drivers | Llameros transition to transport by motor vehicles | Extinction of caravans and caravan technologies |
Non-IPLC individuals breeding pack llamas and training them to walk | Using llamas’ caravans as touristic attraction | |
Anthropogenic assets | Llameros | Quechua-speaking IPLCs with knowledge and experience in breeding, training, and travelling with cargo llamas |
Researchers | Observing all the stages of the caravan trip to have a record of the activity after its extinction | |
Local schools | Using caravans as a transversal theme for different subjects, such as mathematics, geography, history, and natural sciences | |
Local people | Visitors, musicians, greengrocers, cooks, shopkeepers, traditional medicine women, among others | |
Traders and truckers, textile companies, and processed food wholesaler |
Financial capital for the purchase of food or fiber Infrastructure and technology with use of labor |