Growing Diversity - Latin America
TITLE OF EXPERIENCE: Biodiversity management experiences by indigenous and peasant organizations in Colombia
AUTHOR: 21 Indigenous, black and peasant organizations in Colombia
COUNTRY AND REGION: COLOMBIA: Departments of: Caldas, Cauca, Risaralda, Quindio, Antioquía, Valle del Cauca, Córdoba, Sucre, Bolívar, Santander, Nariño, Choco.
ECOLOGICAL ZONE: Caribbean - Central Andes - Southern Andes - Northeastern Andes - Pacific
ABSTRACT
As part of the Growing Diversity project, several of Colombia's indigenous, black and peasant organizations have participated in the process of documenting and socializing our local agroecological experiences. The documentation begins with individual contributions from each organization's experience, which feeds into the compilation and drafting of a final document. This work involves a committee of representatives from six organizations in different regions of the country. Members include Asproal and Asprocig (Caribbean), Asproinca and Corpocam (Central Andes), ADC (Southern Andes) and Censat (Northeastern Andes).
The document is based on contributions from 21 local organizations: ten organizations in the Caribbean, seven in the Central Andes, two in the Southern Andes (Nariño), one in the Northeastern Andes (Santander) and another one in the northern Choco region, near the Pacific. To produce the document we compiled and synthesized the experiences of each of the four regions, seeking to cover the following aspects: general characteristics of the region, description of the project's work, visions and approaches behind the work with biodiversity, major activities and projects carried out, methodologies, achievements, limitations and prospects for the work.
Through this document we hope to share with other Latin American organizations our experience in managing biodiversity as well as showing government agencies and interested individuals that there are many proposals for sustainable agriculture approaches. These can be indicators for orienting policies, alternatives for biodiversity management and publicly-supported actions with our communities, hard hit by the armed conflict and by the farming crisis. We also hope to demonstrate that despite the war and all the threats and outside political, technical and economic pressures that affect our communities, such limitations have not kept us from developing sustainable and viable alternatives for production, which bear witness and are examples that show the road to follow.
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ADC (57-92) 7331022; ASPROAL (57-947) 770209; ASPROAS (57-95) 5699361; ASPROCIG (57-94) 7738397; ASPROINCA (57-968) 59 1804; ASPROINSU (57-95) 2838460; ASPROINPAL (57-33) 6480636; Asoc. Artesanos S.Andres (57-947) 770209; CENSAT (57-986) 602031; CORPORCAN (57-963) 258967; El Volao (57-94) 8754646; El Volao Mujeres Campesinas (57-94) 8754683; IMCA (57-92) 2286131; PSA- Monte de Maria (57-95) 6868085.