Sustainable territorial development in Mapiripán

The project aims to contribute to the construction and consolidation of a wide-ranging territorial development process, through productive, commercial, environmental, forestry, social and community activities. Specifically, it implements a model of sustainable production systems, generating income for farming families, either by linking them to agro-industrial processes, through public-private alliances or by participating in production, marketing and local consumption logics, in a circular economy perspective.

These actions are complemented by community strategies for food and nutritional security, environmental management plans and a social integration process aimed at building a climate of trust, the basis for the development of all the activities carried out with the involved community.

To reduce rural poverty through sustainable territorial development in Mapiripán municipality.

• Network diagnostic analysis for the coordination and articulation of local actors around strategic issues of family farming, land governance and a gender, age and ethnic differential approach.
• Designing and developing the capacity building plan for various institutions and organisations in Mapiripán.
• Reviewing legally and socially the property status of the families participating in the project, in order to define production spaces.
• Designing and implementing production systems: diversified palm and indigenous chagras, promoting production chains for food security and with expected income generation.
• Implementing actions to improve food security conditions, linked to healthy food environments.
• Promoting business and commercial processes in selected production chains that strengthen the local market, identify value addition and/or processing and promote Mapiripán’s food heritage.
• Carrying out environmental actions to protect biodiversity and the proper management of ecosystem services.
• Carrying out activities to characterise, disseminate and recover the communities’ gastronomic memory through knowledge workshops, intergenerational meetings and the creation of cookbooks.
• Strengthening local leaders, with particular attention to women and young people, through the formation of working groups, community meetings and various pedagogical sessions.
• Accompanying community impact building with the participation of all social and institutional actors, as a strategy for integration and conflict resolution.

• Creation and partial implementation of an institutional capacity building plan with the municipality and other related regional entities, whose axes are SAN management, family farming, land governance and gender/age/ethnicity differential approach.
• Design and implementation of the agreement on the three sustainable production models: diversified, palm and native chagras; with projection of income generation and promotion of food and nutrition security, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services.
• Support and accompaniment for the implementation of community impact works that generate recovery of cultural memory, conflict resolution, community integration and strengthening of local leadership.