Modelo de agricultura familiar urbano como estrategia de integración social y desarrollo sustentable en la institución agrícola Guacavia

Abstract

This work was carried out in the framework of the execution of the research project called "development of a model of urban family agriculture as a strategy of social integration and economic development of the less favored strata in the municipality of Cumaral" as an alternative option of degree and Appropriation of intellectual knowledge.

Urban family agriculture emerged as a proposal of social development, forming a structural link between the need of the home and the use of urban spaces, using knowledge in agro-cultural productive activities, unleashing a series of ecological, economic, cultural and social activities . sustainable.

Years ago, hunger, poverty and the displacement of the rural population to urban areas, has been a matter of concern for society as well as for the governments of Colombia and Latin America; the structural and multidimensional problems of poverty, the economic possibilities, the access to food, the quality of life and the social well-being of the inhabitants, the development of the regions and public spending on little visible actions; the sufficient and stable food production makes possible the access of Colombian families to priority products, economic resources and better socio-cultural programs that envisage regional economic development and the well-being of a country. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 2018)

The displacement of rural family groups to urban centers, exploratory perspectives for the development of the potentialities, interests and aspirations of the community, which causes the projection of the countryside in the city, the need for the transformation of the centers urban, the adoption of models and technologies that you can the recovery of the importance of relations and expansion activities, where the suburbanization, social polarization, residential segregation and the fragmentation of the city, integration, inclusion and development of individuals and their family environment. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 2018)

An affective relationship between the physical environmental recovery of the urban space and the inclusion of urban groups in poverty conditions, forces us to propose real changes in socio-economic and cultural aspects and innovative proposals in ecological-urban issues, which allow their application through of projects in the context of contemporary modernity.

Based on this, the present research work has been launched. The purpose of this development was to demonstrate that family agriculture as an element of multidimensional transformation has the capacity to promote participatory and empowerment processes and, on the other, it has sought to identify Through the analysis and the combination of elements and theoretical aspects some common features of urban agriculture.