Abstract

AVELLANEDA-TORRES, Lizeth-Manuela; TORRES, Esperanza  and  LEON-SICARD, Tomás Enrique. Agriculture and Life in the Paramo: a View from El Bosque Rural District (Los Nevados National Natural Park). Cuad. Desarro. Rural [online]. 2014, vol.11, n.73, pp.105-128. ISSN 0122-1450.

It were analyzed the agricultural practices and the living conditions of the community from the rural district El Bosque, located in Los Nevados National Park, Colombia. It were applied various tools such as participant observation, semistructured interviews, timelines, maps per rural district and farms, agricultural calendars, activity schedule by gender and structured questionnaires. It was determined that potato crops and livestock are developed as a survival strategy and they are part of the paramo cultural heritage: practices learned from the Green Revolution and the traditional knowledge. These agricultural practices have generated conflicts between ecosystem conservation and improving the quality of life of its inhabitants. From the research it is proposed to implement community management plans, agroecological models, biocultural memory rescue and transformation in the agrarian structure.

Keywords : moors; agroecology; protected areas; socio-environmental conflict; participatory conservation; soil microbial diversity; moors; agricultural ecology; protected áreas; ecosystems management; bacterial diversity.

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