Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

permaculture - [permaculture] Funding for Agroecology School in the Colombian Amazon

permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: permaculture

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Amy Little <amylittle@hvc.rr.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org, permaculture@openpermaculture.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] Funding for Agroecology School in the Colombian Amazon
  • Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:04:21 -0400

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

FOR SUBSCRIBING AND UNSUBSCRIBING TO COMFOOD, AND FOR ALL POSTING GUIDELINES,
PLEASE CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK :http://foodsecurity.org/Comfood_Posting_Guidelines.pdf







Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page