Economic Dynamics as the Main Limitation for Agricultural Sustainability in a Colombian Indigenous Community DOI Open Access

Cintya Ojeda,

Jhoana P. Romero–Leiton,

M J Mesa

et al.

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(19), P. 8611 - 8611

Published: Oct. 4, 2024

Ancient agroecological farms, or chagras, of the Kamëntšá Biyá and Inga indigenous communities in Sibundoy Valley Colombia offer valuable insights into environmental challenges intensive agriculture promote sustainable food production. Sustainability indices have been developed to assess farm-level sustainability enhance practices; however, data limitations hinder monitoring correlation with external factors. This study evaluated chagras using holistic evaluation system for farming intensification (HESOFI) interview 800 randomly selected assessing economic, agro-environmental, sociopolitical–cultural dimensions. The endogenous factors considered included areas managed diversified agricultural systems, percentage transformed products, inputs generated by chagra, products intended sale. Exogenous distance rivers, roads, cities, vegetation index ratio. results showed that all fell below minimum threshold (80%), economic dimension scoring lowest. Based on these findings, three strategies were proposed improve scores overall chagras.

Language: Английский

Un panorama comparativo de la agroecología en cinco regiones: hacia la integración holística y transdisciplinar DOI Creative Commons
Marcela Bernal Cuesta

Ar cne Revista Electrónica de Recursos en Internet sobre Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 28

Published: June 1, 2024

La agroecología es una ciencia y práctica que estudia promueve sistemas agrícolas sostenibles, basados en principios ecológicos, integran la biodiversidad, los ciclos naturales procesos biológicos para producir alimentos de manera eficiente, respetando mejorando salud del suelo, el agua, biodiversidad bienestar humano. Este estudio presenta un análisis comparativo producción bibliográfica torno a entre años 2010 e inicios 2023, cinco regiones: América Latina Caribe, África, Asia, Europa Norteamérica. Mediante búsqueda diversas bases datos utilizando términos específicos, se identificó amplia gama información, luego delimitó 40 documentos por región. El método utilizado hermenéutico, con cual llevó cabo lectura interpretación documentos, destacaron métodos, enfoques, temas desafíos abordados autores relación cada Al respecto puede deducir está convirtiendo crucial, aborda globales fundamentales como cambio climático seguridad alimentaria, así soluciones progresivas al desabastecimiento alimentario, pobreza inequidad. Su consolidación holística transdisciplinaria, refleja su madurez capacidad ofrecer integrales problemas complejos.

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Economic Dynamics as the Main Limitation for Agricultural Sustainability in a Colombian Indigenous Community DOI Open Access

Cintya Ojeda,

Jhoana P. Romero–Leiton,

M J Mesa

et al.

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(19), P. 8611 - 8611

Published: Oct. 4, 2024

Ancient agroecological farms, or chagras, of the Kamëntšá Biyá and Inga indigenous communities in Sibundoy Valley Colombia offer valuable insights into environmental challenges intensive agriculture promote sustainable food production. Sustainability indices have been developed to assess farm-level sustainability enhance practices; however, data limitations hinder monitoring correlation with external factors. This study evaluated chagras using holistic evaluation system for farming intensification (HESOFI) interview 800 randomly selected assessing economic, agro-environmental, sociopolitical–cultural dimensions. The endogenous factors considered included areas managed diversified agricultural systems, percentage transformed products, inputs generated by chagra, products intended sale. Exogenous distance rivers, roads, cities, vegetation index ratio. results showed that all fell below minimum threshold (80%), economic dimension scoring lowest. Based on these findings, three strategies were proposed improve scores overall chagras.

Language: Английский

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