Socio-environmental diagnostic of the agricultural productionon the Rabanl paramo (Colombia) as a basisforits agroecological reset
The paramos are situated in the highest parts of the Andean mountains, between the woods superior limits, and the snow lower layer. In Colombia the paramos are located in the Western, Central and the Eastern mountain ranges, as well as in the Santa Marta Sierra Nevada; they cover a large extension o...
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| description | The paramos are situated in the highest parts of the Andean mountains, between the woods superior limits, and the snow lower layer. In Colombia the paramos are located in the Western, Central and the Eastern mountain ranges, as well as in the Santa Marta Sierra Nevada; they cover a large extension of the country, reaching ther maximum representativeness in the Boyacá departament, where they supply water for the cities and country side aquaducts. The paramo geological, climatic and edaphic characteristics, has attracted the mining development, mainly coal, plus the growing vegetables specially potatos and the establishment of cattle and sheep grazing, over the 300 masl. The relative advantages offered by the natural environment for the develpment of these activities, are in contrast with the soild deterioration suceptibility and whit the great vulnerability of the altoandinos ecosystems, subject to extreme weather conditons, high humidity and steep slopes.The application of agrochemicals and the agricultural forntier expansion are activities that affect negatively the paramo ecosystem, impact the natural resources, the biodivesity, and the water sources. But the country´s current agricultural approach that does not allow to analyze the socio-economic relationships between the population, neither their needs, nor much less teh potential of the fermers settled there. Given this problematc, is intented, under systems approach, and from the socio-economic and environmental assessment, to link the comunity in a participatorymanner, and through senstization strategies, to become masters of their rural reality, by looking for the soil and crop health valuation, and to identify and recognize the existing biodiversity, also the agroecosystem resilience capacity. All ths tacking as a principle the agroecology, in search for a socially viable alternative and envronmentally sustainable in ths today unprotected ecosystem. |
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| spelling | oai:oai.revistas.uptc.edu.co:article-41112018-11-21T00:12:57Z Socio-environmental diagnostic of the agricultural productionon the Rabanl paramo (Colombia) as a basisforits agroecological reset Diagnóstico socio-ambiental de la producción agrícola en el páramo de Rabanal (Colombia) como base para su reconversión agroecológica Useche de Vega, Dalia Soraya Márquez-Girón, Sara María agroeosystem boidiversity agricultural frontier paramos agrosystem resilence Agroecosistema biodiversidad frontera agropecuaria páramos resiliencia del agrosistema The paramos are situated in the highest parts of the Andean mountains, between the woods superior limits, and the snow lower layer. In Colombia the paramos are located in the Western, Central and the Eastern mountain ranges, as well as in the Santa Marta Sierra Nevada; they cover a large extension of the country, reaching ther maximum representativeness in the Boyacá departament, where they supply water for the cities and country side aquaducts. The paramo geological, climatic and edaphic characteristics, has attracted the mining development, mainly coal, plus the growing vegetables specially potatos and the establishment of cattle and sheep grazing, over the 300 masl. The relative advantages offered by the natural environment for the develpment of these activities, are in contrast with the soild deterioration suceptibility and whit the great vulnerability of the altoandinos ecosystems, subject to extreme weather conditons, high humidity and steep slopes.The application of agrochemicals and the agricultural forntier expansion are activities that affect negatively the paramo ecosystem, impact the natural resources, the biodivesity, and the water sources. But the country´s current agricultural approach that does not allow to analyze the socio-economic relationships between the population, neither their needs, nor much less teh potential of the fermers settled there. Given this problematc, is intented, under systems approach, and from the socio-economic and environmental assessment, to link the comunity in a participatorymanner, and through senstization strategies, to become masters of their rural reality, by looking for the soil and crop health valuation, and to identify and recognize the existing biodiversity, also the agroecosystem resilience capacity. All ths tacking as a principle the agroecology, in search for a socially viable alternative and envronmentally sustainable in ths today unprotected ecosystem. En las partes más altas de las montañas andinas, entre los límites superior de bosques e inferior de zonas nivales, se encuentran los páramos, en Colombia se localizan en las cordilleras Occidental, Central y Oriental, y en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, abarcan gran extensión del país y tienen máxima representatividad en el departamento de Boyacá, en donde abastecen acueductos municipales y veredales. Dadas las características geológicas, climáticas y edáficas de los páramos, se han desarrollado en ellos la extracción minera (principalmente carbón) y actividades agropecuarias (principalmente papa y pastoreo de vacunos y ovinos) sobre 3.000 msnm, pero las ventajas ofrecidas por este medio natural para desarrollar estas actividades contrastan con su susceptibilidad al deterioro y la vulnerabilidad edáfica.La aplicación de agroquímicos y la ampliación de la frontera agropecuaria son actividades que alteran negativamente el ecosistema de páramo, impactan los recursos naturales, la biodiversidad y las fuentes hídricas, pero el enfoque agrícola actual del país no permite analizar las relaciones socio-económicas existentes entre la población, ni las necesidades, ni, mucho menos, las potencialidades de los campesinos asentados allí.Ante esta problemática se pretende, bajo un enfoque de sistemas ya partir del diagnóstico socioeconómico y ambiental y de la comprensión de la realidad campesina, vincular, mediante estrategias de sensibilización, a la comunidad para que participe activamente en la evaluación de la salud del suelo y del cultivo y en la identificación y reconocimiento de la biodiversidad existente, así como de la capacidad de resiliencia del agroecosistema. Todo esto teniendo como principio la agroecología, en la búsqueda de una alternativa socialmente viable y ambientalmente sostenible en este ecosistema de especial protección. Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2015-01-19 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion investigation application/pdf https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/ciencia_agricultura/article/view/4111 10.19053/01228420.4111 Ciencia y Agricultura; Vol. 12 No. 1 (2015); 27-37 Ciencia y Agricultura; Vol. 12 Núm. 1 (2015); 27-37 2539-0899 spa https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/ciencia_agricultura/article/view/4111/3557 Copyright (c) 2015 CIENCIA Y AGRICULTURA |
| spellingShingle | agroeosystem boidiversity agricultural frontier paramos agrosystem resilence Agroecosistema biodiversidad frontera agropecuaria páramos resiliencia del agrosistema Useche de Vega, Dalia Soraya Márquez-Girón, Sara María Socio-environmental diagnostic of the agricultural productionon the Rabanl paramo (Colombia) as a basisforits agroecological reset |
| title | Socio-environmental diagnostic of the agricultural productionon the Rabanl paramo (Colombia) as a basisforits agroecological reset |
| title_alt | Diagnóstico socio-ambiental de la producción agrícola en el páramo de Rabanal (Colombia) como base para su reconversión agroecológica |
| title_full | Socio-environmental diagnostic of the agricultural productionon the Rabanl paramo (Colombia) as a basisforits agroecological reset |
| title_fullStr | Socio-environmental diagnostic of the agricultural productionon the Rabanl paramo (Colombia) as a basisforits agroecological reset |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socio-environmental diagnostic of the agricultural productionon the Rabanl paramo (Colombia) as a basisforits agroecological reset |
| title_short | Socio-environmental diagnostic of the agricultural productionon the Rabanl paramo (Colombia) as a basisforits agroecological reset |
| title_sort | socio environmental diagnostic of the agricultural productionon the rabanl paramo colombia as a basisforits agroecological reset |
| topic | agroeosystem boidiversity agricultural frontier paramos agrosystem resilence Agroecosistema biodiversidad frontera agropecuaria páramos resiliencia del agrosistema |
| topic_facet | agroeosystem boidiversity agricultural frontier paramos agrosystem resilence Agroecosistema biodiversidad frontera agropecuaria páramos resiliencia del agrosistema |
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