permaculture

[Amy Little <amylittle@hvc.rr.com>]

For anyone looking for Kristina's contact:
kristinalyo@gmail.com


> Hello all,
>
> I am a Ph.D. candidate in the department of 
> anthropology at the University of California, 
> Davis and I work with small farmers in Putumayo, 
> Colombia-  frontier department and gateway to 
> the Colombian Amazon. As many of you may know, 
> the inhabitants of Putumayo (mostly campesino 
> and indigenous communities) have long been 
> subjected to repressive anti narcotics policies 
> and failed alternative development packages on 
> the part of the U.S. and Colombian governments 
> vis-a-vis Plan Colombia policies. They have also 
> been criminalized by the Colombian state as coca 
> growers and guerrilla sympathizers and have 
> faced intensive cycles of violence on the part of paramilitary actors.
>
> I work with a group of campesinos in Putumayo 
> who are self-taught agroecologists and who are 
> building their own Amazonian agroecology school 
> to share their knowledge about how to engage in 
> a jungle based agri-culture with other small 
> farmers in the region who have migrated to the 
> Amazon from the Andean zones of Colombia. They 
> are receiving no funding from government 
> institutions and most of the NGOs working in 
> Putumayo are either alternative development 
> organizations pushing monocrop, export 
> orientated agriculture as an alternative to coca 
> or conservation environmental organizations that 
> do not fund agricultural projects. These small 
> farmers are interested in food sovereignty, 
> community organizing, and sustainable Amazonian 
> agriculture. I was hoping that some of you might 
> have suggestions about possible funding sources 
> for this school.  I would greatly appreciate any 
> information you can provide us.
>
> Mil gracias!
> Kristina Lyons
>
> --
> Candidata Ph.D, Antropología
> Universidad de California, Davis
>
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