Implementación de huertas urbanas como medio de seguridad alimentaria en hogares de jefatura femenina en Bucaramanga, Santander

Abstract

The objective of this extension work is to formulate a project that allows the Santo Tomás University to participate in national and international cooperation calls, with the intention of obtaining by this means human, technical and/or financial resources, destined for the implementation of urban and peri-urban gardens as a way of food security in socioeconomically vulnerable communities. The approach of this work arises from identifying the issue faced by female-headed households, whose income has decreased as a result of the plights enhanced by the COVID-19 pandemic; in this context, it has been shown that the labor gap has widened, poverty figures have increased at the national level and food insecurity has also increased. The formulation is executed through the logical framework methodology, highlighting the social nature of the project and the need to address it from the problem and the factors that are interfering, to the identification of alternatives and the selection of the most pertinent as a way of solution. As a result of this effort, it has been achieved a document that fulfill the technical and quality criteria, according to the Presidential Agency for International Cooperation (2012), required in national and international cooperation calls. As a final discussion, it is expected that this project design will be validated through the execution of the proposed methodologies and ways of verification, furthermore that this will be a benchmark in the implementation of urban and peri-urban agroecological gardens.