Desafíos de Cultivar en la Ciudad. Análisis de la Sostenibilidad de dos Procesos de Agricultura Periurbana en Bogotá-Soacha desde el Desarrollo Sostenible.

Abstract

Taking into account the growth that has been emerging in Bogota in regards to the process development of urban agriculture as a bet for food sovereignty and as a community practice for the neighborhood integration; the following article makes part of an investigation around the sustainability in urban agriculture processes in Bogota. In this sense, the experience of two processes of peri-urban food in Bogota was collected, one that made part of an education exercise for the strengthen of skills with respect to farming in the city that was developed by the Christian Corporation Creciendo Juntos located in fourth commune of Soacha and the other from an experience of a community garden located in the Palermo Sur neighborhood in which the objective was to identify challenges and problems with respect to the role of the urban agriculture in Bogota from marginalized contexts. Secondly, we sought to contrast the experience of the processes with eight experiences and the vision of experts in the subject to find points to bear in mind for contributing to the sustainability of the processes from the bet of sustainable development. For this, we collected the data by means of fifteen interviews and the respective triangulation of the information was made using the atlas.ti program.