Valle del Cauca became the first department in Colombia with an Agroecology Plan, a commitment by the government of Dilian Francisca Toro to guarantee responsible use of the soil, which will allow the return to toxic-free crops for healthy food consumption.
“Today is a historic day for Valle del Cauca because we have the ordinance of the Agroecological Plan 2024-2035, we want to make that transition to producing and consuming clean and chemical-free products. This draft ordinance was built collectively, associations of rural women, young people, Afro-descendants, indigenous women, all communities and academia, who are committed to agroecology for life, were linked here,” explained Ángela Reyes, Secretary of Development, from Buenos Aires. , Rural, Agriculture and Fisheries of the Valley.
Joaquín Emilio Agudelo, an agroecological producer from the town of Venus in Tuluá, celebrated the approval and pointed out that “for us it is a victory that we have already built this Departmental Agroecology Plan that allows us to carry out some projects so that we farmers can harvest healthy and “to be able to contribute to the preventive health of all consumers, since whoever eats healthy foods lives healthy.”
Meanwhile, the producer of the La Marina district in Tuluá, Deysi Liliana Villas Granada, highlighted the benefits, “I am part of the country’s producing peasant families who dream of having a plan that is framed in agroecology, that contains all the values and all the characteristics that as people and as peasant women have characterized us over the years.”
The Departmental Agroecological Plan was built collectively with the active participation of the communities that live in the four subregions of Valle del Cauca and had the support of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, the European Union and the Italian Agency of Cooperation. “This Plan has been built for more than 30 years in a struggle of academics and peasants who have believed in this way of thinking as an expression to reclaim life,” concluded the deputy speaker Juan Carlos Rengifo.
Governorate of Valle del Cauca
