Caracterización de diferentes métodos de establecimiento y producción de agricultura urbana, bajo la sostenibilidad y seguridad alimentaria para la población vulnerable de Altos de Cazucá, municipio de Soacha: Informe de avance de investigación

Abstract

This project proposes to apply the methodologies and techniques of Participatory Action Research to achieve a production model of urban production, taking into account the specific nature of Comuna 4 features, Altos de Cazucá, municipality of Soacha, which affected by armed conflict in Colombia as a result of forced displacement of the population; between the impact of this displacement results in the increase in the shantytowns of the municipality, being affected by malnutrition problems, so as the rate of chronic malnutrition in children between patients seen in clinics is 30%, compared with the national average of 8%. In this population, being forced to displacement from their places where they obtained their income, they spend to add the critical levels of the town's economy, is how it was found that incomes are lower by 50% the minimum wage and levels of poverty are evident in 20% of the population with an average income of $ 179,000 for 2014. A possible mitigation of the above characteristics could be the application of methods and techniques which have to do with agricultural sustainability, which it is part urban agriculture, which contributes to the production of plant species that favor food and nutrition sovereignty to decline in an increasing manner the above problems, which is why the project aims to describe different methods of establishment and production urban agriculture under sustainability and food and nutrition for the vulnerable population of Altos de Cazucá security through Tomasina philosophy of see, judge and act.