This will be the first time that the IASC Global Conference will be co-organized by two leading universities in the Andean region: the Faculty of Social Sciences of the PUCP and the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia). The conference is supported by the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Environment, the LUM and CIFOR. Among the international partners we have the alliance of UNDP and FAO, Conservation International, ensuring that public policy dialogues are well nurtured.