Rather, scales emerge as products of blurry and transversal relations between transnational organizations, private companies, different governmental actors, and diverse groups of local people (Sud 2017). Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research and Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, San Jose dos Campos and Paris, Artur L, Hilhorst D (2012) Everyday realities of climate change adaptation in Mozambique. Racism kills, and climate change kills. (April 2, 2019). This is followed by analysis of smallholders' vulnerability experiences and how Peru's climate policies respond to context-specific vulnerabilities in the highlands. The intensifying impacts of climate change pose a serious global threat, particularly for rural populations whose livelihoods are closely tied to natural resources. Overall risks from climate-related impacts are evaluated based on the interaction of climate-related hazards (including hazardous events and trends) with the vulnerability of communities (susceptibility to harm and lack of capacity to adapt), and exposure of human and natural systems. Corn and potatoes the main crops cultivated by smallholders were most affected. 2021 The World Bank Group, All Rights Reserved. With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. Springer Natures version of this paper was updated to reflect the missing Open Access funding note. This is followed by analysis of smallholders vulnerability experiences and how Perus climate policies respond to context-specific vulnerabilities in the highlands. 2006. While these pose a serious risk for smallholders livelihoods, the vulnerabilities in the Andean context can also have deep socio-ecological and cultural implications. There were some initiatives to prevent yield damages. For highland populations, moving away can also mean leaving behind something that transcends mere livelihood. The ENCC for their part states that the central government commits to financially supporting such region-specific adaptation practices by providing an annual budget for each regional government (ENCC 2015). You should understand that the farmer does not have the capacity to pay for the water tariff. In January 2018, farmers took to the streets demanding an end to imported potato subsidies that were reducing national potato prices. Taken into considerations the new study Perus transformation over the past two decades represents a remarkable success story, though significant challenges and risks remain. About 71% of this farming land is rain-fed, while only 29% is connected to irrigation (CIIFEN 2018). Between the operations approval in 2010 and its closure in 2020, the government of Peru introduced policy reforms focused on strengthening the nations capacity to mobilize resources in the event of a disaster and to promote risk reduction. Climate Change Overview Country Summary The pre-conditions of the smallholders vulnerabilities are rooted to invisibility of their concerns in the political agendas beyond climate adaptation (Lukes 2005). The Alliance links indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon to REDD+ climate financing and technical assistance. The farming activities in the valley take place in approximately 340,000 hectares of agricultural land. More than 9 million people are exposed to heavy rains, floods, flash floods and landslides, 7 million to low and very low temperatures, and almost 3.5 million to droughts. In recent decades, many farmers have experienced harvest losses due to unexpected climate extremes. For centuries, Andean farmers have lived, sowed, and harvested following these seasonal patterns. (2011) discuss the complex, historically rooted dynamics of access to weather forecasts across Latin America. As Nygren (2021) argues, relational approach to scalar dynamics allows a more nuanced examination on how power relations and production of environmental vulnerabilities merge across scales. In: Herzog SK, Martnez R, Jorgensen PM, Tiessen H (eds) Climate Change and Biodiversity in the tropical Andes. And I will personally commit in debating and fighting with all the persons who think otherwise. Increased glacial melt, which is associated with climate change, is projected to cause significant reductions in water flow as early as 2030. Climate change could trigger harvest failure in multiple breadbasket locations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2F0094582X16637867, Rhoades RE, Ros XZ, Ochoa JA (2008) Mama Cotacachi: history, local perceptions, and social impacts of climate change and glacier retreat in the Ecuadorian Andes. Trained more than 1,100 professionals to design, monitor, and manage natural infrastructure projects. Peru established more ambition in its updated NDC, increasing its mitigation goal from 30% to 40% against the BAU scenario in 2030 and indicating an absolute target number in terms of the amount of CO2 equivalent (not exceeding 179 MtCO2e by 2030). Published on: 8.5.2019. http://www.noticiasser.pe/entrevista/fernando-eguren-en-el-peru-solo-hay-politica-agraria-para-los-grandes-agroexportadores. Many of them had received help from international NGOs in improving and establishing production. Through SECO, US$988,000 was mobilized to support a range of activities focused on strengthening the governments post-disaster financial response capacity, including preparing a national disaster risk financing strategy, launched in 2016. Thats what we call the flash floods caused by torrential rains that originate from the El Nio phenomenon, almost every summer. The analysis draws on a case study conducted in the Mantaro River Valley in Central Peru using qualitative methods: open-ended interviews, participant observation, and document analysis. Geoforum 48:4253. The climate crisis is no longer as abstract as it once may have seemed. However, this initiative has been criticized for underrepresentation of smallholder organizations and weak discussion of the structural issues behind the farmers grievances (Eguren 2019). Pseudonyms are used for all the interviewees to guarantee anonymity and confidentiality. And it allows quick evaluation of most vulnerable areas through the spatial comparison of natural hazard data with development data, thereby identifying exposed livelihoods and natural systems. Please upgrade to continue. https://doi.org/10.1177/2F0263774X16655801, Swyngedouw E (2004) Globalisation or glocalisation? Finally, the selva, with its rainforests, is experiencing an increasing number of large-scale floods. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2013.830954, Taylor M (2015) The political ecology of climate change adaptation: livelihoods, agrarian change and the conflicts of development. Part A: Global and sectoral aspects. GORE Junn also promises to promote conservation of water resources and technical assistance and consultation for communities threatened by climatic risks (POI 2019). According to a 2021 assessment of Peru by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), half of Perus national territory is exposed to recurring hazards, and one third of the population uses exposed space. When we discussed the current challenges, farmers commonly used expressions, such as my little potatois suffering from the burning sun, or we see our poor riverdying from the droughts. Smallholders living in the upper Shullcas River basin reflected on environmental change through the glacier Huaytapallana, as smallholder Dario Paredes described: It is sad to see the white snow peaks transforming slowly into lifeless black hills and together with them vanishes our water. (May 20, 2019). J Peasant Stud 29:131161. Refugees of the future will be climate refugees, The UNESCO Courier, number 10, 2009. It was common to hear the farmers saying that soon they will grow more cement than crops in this valley. Yet, as Altamirano (2014) argues, a new life in the city does not necessarily mean that highland farmers vulnerabilities vanish. Clim Change 78:63102, Zimmerer KS (1991) Managing diversity in potato and maize fields of the Peruvian Andes. Before the fieldwork, I reviewed site-specific literature and media reports to guide the methodological and field research design. Routledge, New York, McCarthy J (2005) Scale, sovereignity, and strategy in environmental governance. The Inter-American Development Bank and several other international development agencies are funding a wide variety of projects in collaboration with the Government of Peru and USAID is working with communities in the Andean highlands to help them adapt to changes in freshwater availability. Therefore, climate adaptation plans must also carefully consider the implications of such processes on place-specific vulnerabilities they aim to combat (Paerregaard 2018). Results Briefs November 5, 2021 Advancing Policy Reforms in Peru to Reduce Risk from Natural Hazards Peru has instituted policy reforms to improve its disaster risk management readiness and practices. Instituto Nacional de Investigacin en Glaciares y Ecosistemas de Montaa, Direccin de Informacin y Gestin del Conocimiento, Lima, INEI (2019) PER: Evaluacin de los Indicadores de Empleo e Ingreso por Departamento, 20072018. As a part of the Andean biodiverse mountain range, the Mantaro Valley is characterized by high inter-annual climatic variability. Now people are trying to re-work the land and others have used that fertilizer hoping to save their maicitos (little corns) but what I can see it is all rotten and gone. 2. While local people adapt the dominant climate discourse and practices, they are simultaneously active actors in contesting and shaping the prevailing scalar power relations, as I will discuss in the following section. This is an article of interest; especially linked to a global phenomenon with very local repercussions; In the high Andes of Peru, an area with high vulnerability to climate change, there are interesting experiences that must be rescued and shared; Well, the inhabitants for many years have adapted to the changes of the climate; however, public policies such as water harvesting, irrigation . Residents have also been prohibited from trying to treat suspected dengue cases at home, and are instead being told to attend clinics. Earth Sci Rev 176:195213. Climate change, power, and vulnerabilities in the Peruvian Highlands. In recent decades, weather extremes such as droughts, frosts, and intense rains have increased (Anderson et al. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate the slides or the slide controller buttons at the end to navigate through each slide. But now it is time to fight (pelear) for this [project] to convert into a law. In Peru, we are seeing the impacts of how climate change and ecosystem degradation amplify the risks of human displacement and migration, already occurring now at 1.2 of global warming., Given that Peru shares its ecosystems sierra, costa, selva with its neighbours, some realities may be shared too, says Escribano. . That is an increasingly evident necessity, given the future impact of natural disasters on the continents population. However, highland farmers remain weakly represented in climate decision-making processes. Vulnerability and Adaptation Coordinator: Laura Avellaneda Huamn Inventories and Mitigation Coordinator: rafael Milln Garca Communications Coordinator: Luisa Gmez Elas / Jenny Chimayco ortega . Projected climate changes will likely impact freshwater resources, glaciers, marine ecosystems, agriculture, infrastructure, and human health and wellbeing. 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In the cities, highland migrants often face discrimination due to their ethnic or serrano backgrounds. On the other hand, I discuss how the farmers also become engaged in these multi-scalar power dynamics as active agents, while seeking for ways to create their own means of adaptation. Accessed 8 Oct 2018, Crabtree J (2002) The impact of neo-liberal economics on Peruvian peasant agriculture in the 1990s. The region has also an important role in maintaining food security in nearby cities and in Perus capital, Lima (Vergara et al. Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. Large-scale, export-oriented coastal agriculture has expanded, while rural highland regions have seen few improvements, and inequalities and poverty have merely increased (Valcrcel 2015). Glob Environ Chang 21:11601162. The outbreak is a warning sign for countries in the tropics, where dengue and other insect-borne illnesses are increasingly prevalent as a rapidly changing climate brings more instances of warm and wet weather, which provide ideal breeding conditions for mosquito hosts. 2011; Zimmerer 1991). This tool allows the visualization of different natural hazards or historical climate conditions with socio-economic and development datasets. The study takes a political ecology of vulnerability approach to address how disproportionate multi-scalar political-economic and social relations compound vulnerabilities to climate change (Ribot 2011, 2014). Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. In: Mearns R, Norton A (eds) Social dimensions of climate change: equity and vulnerability in warming world. Glob Environ Chang 14:303313, Orlove B (1993) Putting race in its place: order in colonial and postcolonial Peruvian geography. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-015-0888-9, Moore A (2008) Rethinking scale as a geographical category from analysis to practice. At the national level, in MINAGRI or MINAM for example, state officials portrayed the adaptation failure as a consequence of inefficiency, lack of professionality, or corruption in regional and local institutions. She fears that this will further exacerbate socio-economic inequalities., The PIK-IOM report puts the evidence on the table, notes Johan Rockstrm, director of PIK. Projected climate changes will likely impact freshwater resources, glaciers, marine ecosystems, agriculture, infrastructure, and human health and wellbeing. At first glance, the official climate adaptation policies of Peru are promising in terms of protecting the most marginalized populations facing climate risks. Peru Climate Vulnerability Profile Peru Climate Vulnerability Profile January 1, 2013 This vulnerability profile provides an overview of USAID program vulnerabilities for Peru. Prog Hum Geogr 32:20325. The Alliance currently supports seven communities in the Ucayali region to implement Community Forest Management (CFM) and develop market-oriented sustainable forest enterprises, generating economic benefits for improved livelihoods while avoiding or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Two of these hospitals (Arzobispo Loayza and Dos de Mayo), identified as part of Perus cultural heritage, required further coordination with the Ministry of Culture to preserve their historic buildings. In what follows, I analyze how diverse multi-scalar power relations simultaneously shape and produce vulnerabilities among, across and within a specific place through the case of the Mantaro River Valley of Peru. World Dev 146:105615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105615, OBrien K, Leichenko R, Kelkar U, Venema H, Aandahl G et al (2008) Mapping vulnerability to multiple stressors: climate change and globalization in India. They considered that adaptation efforts also failed due to the famers unconsciousness and ignorant attitudes. Part of Springer Nature. Yet there is a lack of critical understanding of how asymmetric power dynamics shape the vulnerabilities of such populations under climate change. The reforms established stronger financial protections, increased public investment in disaster prevention, and targeted interventions for resilient health and water infrastructure, reducing the populations vulnerability. Besides climatic risks, the farmers were concerned about the poor conditions of their farming land. Inhabiting a land of extreme landscapes and climates, the people of Peru have developed coping and adaptation strategies to deal with hazards where they live. This three-year partnership with Green Gold Forestry, a Peruvian timber company, to transition their business from timber extraction to carbon capture and non-timber forest products. Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Snellmanninkatu 14 C, 00014, Helsinki, Finland, You can also search for this author in This has augmented the vulnerability of low-lying megacities, deltas, coasts and islands in many parts of the world. This report features 19 countries where central, regional, and local governments have come together to work towards a national climate strategy. Implement 90 adaptation measures across critical sectors including Water, Health, Fishing and Aquaculture, Agriculture, and Forests. Forty-one water and sanitation service companies established contingent funds for disaster risk management. In their study, Orlove et al. Soil and water conservation, integrated pest management, farm traceability, and agricultural input sourcing are among some of the approaches implemented. The Alliance has improved the livelihoods of 26,000 cacao farmers who implement climate-smart agricultural practices to improve farm productivity by increasing yields. 2003; O'Brien et al 2004). In the absence of consensus with the authorities, the smallholders were looking for other ways to solve their increasing irrigation water needs. Some farmers, for instance, considered that climate change was a result of local people using too many plastic items, throwing trash in the rivers, and not recycling their waste. Wires Clim Change 5:793808. On his opinion, this proposal for a reservoir would be a better investment than Yanacocha as it would provide wider irrigation benefits for the entire basin. The case of the Yanacocha reservoir stands as an illustrative example for the complex, nuanced and intersecting power dynamics within and beyond the scales of official climate adaptation. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative, Over 10 million scientific documents at your fingertips, Not logged in USAIDs work on adaptation within Peru currently focuses on improving the countrys water security, while also advancing climate monitoring and research, and empowering local communities, agricultural producers, and the Government of Peru to protect and sustain water, soil, forest, and marine resources. Peru, which has four of the five geographical areas most vulnerable to climate change - ranging from fragile mountain ecosystems to low-lying coastal areas - will host the 20th UN climate. Moreover, smallholder farming is at particular risk under predictions of intensifying climatic changes due to its dependence on rains. Instead, the smallholders had limited space to influence the decision-making, and current agri and water policies were rather weakening their farming and market opportunities through invisibilizing their claims from political agendas (Lukes 2005). - Tuesday, June 13, 2023, All day, Tuesday, June 13 In this study, vulnerability is understood as a dynamic condition, driven by multifaceted forces within changing political-economic, social, and environmental processes across diverse scales (Marino and Ribot 2012; Nagoda and Nightingale 2017). Clim Change 105:179206. These have now become recurrent in a country where the first major climate-related population movement dates back to the eighteenth century, when the Zaa river overflowed and the entire city had to migrate.. Key partners in supporting the governments efforts to increase capacity to mobilize resources and promote risk reduction included the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the Switzerland State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), both of which mobilized grant resources throughout the life of the DRM engagement to provide technical assistance in key areas and sectors. Practical Action Publishing, Rugby UK, pp 1534, Young KR, Lipton JK (2006) Adaptive governance and climate change in the tropical highlands of western South America. Here, I explore the institutional arrangements of Perus climate adaptation, namely, how and by whom climate responses are defined, and how their articulation and implementation occur through mosaic of interlayered scales, producing confusing outcomes of climate-related vulnerabilities (Nygren 2021:3). Tuesday, May 30 I also appreciate the cooperation of the many government institutions in Peru. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.013, IGP (2012) Manejo de riesgos de desastres ante eventos meteorolgicos extremos en el valle del Mantaro. A draft of this document was presented and discussed at the . The World Bank Group works in every major area of development. Please enable JavaScript to continue. Farming lands, especially in the lower valley, have been sold for construction purposes, needed by the expanding city of Huancayo. The epidemic has been exacerbated by the beginning of the El Nio weather pattern, a regular occurrence that begins with warm water developing off the Pacific coast of South America and a weakening of trade winds that cause the water to flow toward the continent. Considering GORE Junns difficulties in targeting the resources to climate adaptation and the conflicting relations between different governmental authorities, this seemed not to be the case. 2018). Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. Lat Am Rev 46:115140, Paerregaard K (2017) Power in/of/as water: revisiting the hydrologic cycle in the Peruvian Andes. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00523.x, McDowell JZ, Hess JJ (2012) Accessing adaptation: multiple stressors on livelihoods in the Bolivian highlands under a changing climate. This program supports Peruvian water managers, planners, and policymakers to use nature-based adaptation solutions, such as natural infrastructure and watershed science to respond to and reduce the impacts of flooding, drought, and decreased water availability. Moreover, I conducted over 20 interviews with state officials and other actors engaged in climate and agricultural policies at diverse governmental levels. Glob Environ Chang 25:173185. In the Mantaro River valley, the regional government of Junn (GORE Junn) has institutional responsibility for regional climate governance. However, without considering the multi-scalar power imbalances in the wider fields of policy and how these alter place-specific socio-political characteristics, they risk (re)producing vulnerabilities to climate change rather than alleviating them. In the sierra, the highland region, most of the meteorological hazards are linked to water although exposure to high temperatures and extreme heat in some areas, and extremely cold and freezing temperatures in places such as Cuzco, also predominate. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201602.001, Holler J (2014) Adaptation policy and adaptation realities: local social organization and cross-scale networks for climate adaptation on Mount Kilimanjaro. These efforts include (i) establishing a results-based budgetary program for DRM, (ii) approving the DRM law and the DRM plan to implement the mandates under the law, (iii) developing a financial protection strategy against disasters with a range of instruments to improve capacity to mobilize resources in the event of a disaster, and (iv) working closely with sectors managing critical and essential infrastructure. Together, racism and climate change interact . A study published by U.S. and Peruvian public health experts in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases last year found a strong link in Peru between dengue fever outbreaks, warmer weather and the El Nio Southern Oscillation. Understanding natural hazard occurrence as well as historical climate conditions, in relation to development contexts, is critical to understanding a countrys historical vulnerability. It includes policy guidelines and indicators related to mitigating climate change and disaster risks. A new public investment system (Invierte.pe) includes guidelines to integrate DRM considerations into the project formulation cycle. Local newspaper articles, for instance, hinted that in recent years, tensions between state officials and smallholders had increased due to disagreements over water and agricultural management (Correo 2017; RPP 2018). https://diariocorreo.pe/edicion/huancayo/agua-sera-compartida-con-regantes-hasta-el-mes-de-noviembre-763105/. 2011; Drenkhan et al. Sustainability 9:311. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9020311, Gagn K, Rasmussen M, Orlove B (2014) Glaciers and society: attributions, perceptions, and valuations. All climates except for those in theEgroup are assigned a seasonal precipitation sub-group (second letter). This has created marginalization, conflicts, and deepened smallholders vulnerabilities under climate change. Understanding natural hazard occurrence as well as historical climate conditions, in relation to development contexts, is critical to understanding a country's historical vulnerability. Explore historical and projected climate data, climate data by sector, impacts, key vulnerabilities and what adaptation measures are being taken. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.315, Goldman MJ, Turner MD, Daly M (2018) A critical political ecology of human dimensions of climate change: epistemology, ontology and ethics. The climate of the Peruvian Highlands has typically been characterized by marked shifts between rainy and dry periods. Improved land management with climate mitigation benefits across more than 48 million hectares in the Amazon, including 4 million in Peru in 2021. The authorities, however, claimed that the price drop was caused by the farmers own potato overproduction. Meanwhile, the smallholders claims are systematically bypassed and precluded by placing the blame of their grievances to self-responsibilization. Although the term vulnerability is used to indicate an increased susceptibility of forests to climate change with a worsening of their vigour status that can . https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150412331311049, DRA Junn (2019) Sntesis agrario Agosto 2019. environmental degradation and biodiversity and its impact on mental health (e.g., climate change anxiety, eco-grief, solastalgia). volume21, Articlenumber:82 (2021) While underrepresentation of highland communities in the ENCC raises concerns, restricting climate support to state-defined farming categories can also have problematic adaptation outcomes. Supported 34,300 farmers in San Martin, Ucayali, Pasco, and Huanuco to implement climate-smart agricultural practices including agroforestry systems, soil and water conservation, post-harvest improvements, and inorganic and organic waste management. (2011) describe in their study. Peru also prohibited storing still water in open containers, while rushing to opening a field hospital in one of its worst-affected regions. The recent governmental downgrading of the highland peasants can thus help to explain why particularly farmers from the older generation associate feelings of marginalization with the highland campesino identity. Routledge, London and New York, MacKinnon D (2011) Reconstructing scale: towards a new scalar politics. The fifth section examines the influences of uneven power dynamics in wider field of policy and scalar configurations in (re)producing vulnerabilities. In the selva region, farmers migrate mainly as a temporary and precautionary measure during the rainy season, to mitigate food insecurity. Glob Environ Chang 22:342352. The National Risk Index includes three components to define natural hazard risk: (1) a community's expected annual loss, based on hazard frequency, exposure, and historic loss ratio for buildings, population equivalence, and agriculture; (2) social vulnerability; and (3) community resilience. The latest wave comes as northern parts of Peru experienced record rainfall in March. Climate change Water Sustainable cities and communities. J Peasant Stud 41:667705. Yet the actors who participated in elaborating the ENCC mostly consist of powerful national and international institutions, such as the World Bank, most of Perus ministries, and regional governments. Though some legal gaps remain, Peru has established several reference frameworks on climate change since 2000, and now has a wide range of legal instruments and policies applicable to climate migration. Collection Ecosystem-based adaptation A programme of work focused on people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to climate change and promote sustainable development The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin) The evacuation of citizens who were affected by El Nio in the northwestern region of Piura, after torrential rains in 2017. At least 114 people have died after being infected with the virus, with another 39 fatalities under investigation. Moreover, it depicts how vulnerabilities are mutually (re)produced through intersecting scalar power dynamics (Sayre 2015). The leading figure of the Yanacocha opposition was the director of a local potable water service company (SEDAM). https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-81-2013, Rasmussen MB (2016) Unsettling times: living with the changing horizons of the Peruvian Andes. These claims were however rejected by communities in the lower basin supported by the Cunas irrigation organization, the Local Water Authority (ALA), and other congress members. Recent works have addressed how power relations embedded in resource access and representation (Ribot 2014), climate discourses (Perreault 2020), and place-specific histories (Turner 2016) shape pre-conditions of vulnerabilities. Therefore, analyzing the links between power and vulnerability within the scalar dynamics approach enables to disentangle who has a say and whose interests are present in climate adaptation policies across diverse moments of decision-making (MacKinnon2011). (March 30, 2019). ABA has committed to significantly reduce GHG emissions in the Peruvian Amazon, with a goal of contributing up to 3 percent of Perus GHG emissions reduction goal in the Agriculture, Forest, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) category. 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