how many of you have pondered
about it especially when we talk about
old age and we mention things like I wish
Every one that arrives arrives well and that
means to get well
it will be possible to reach 100 years
without using cane with total lucidity and
health and still retain skill for
handle as well in this case
I know
exists and represents my grandfather Luis
doctor escobar of the first
gynecologists from the country that delivered their
life at service for others
I remember that at home it was very common
share family tasks listening
his anecdotes experiences and adventures
that were a way of transmitting
knowledge and teachings and advice to
women from home especially their
granddaughters
this man inspired us values like
have respect for discipline responsibility
initiative for things and strength
face life and your fear fears
that society imposes fear on us not
I can be afraid of not being able to have or
they will not be able to reach
I remember that my friends and acquaintances
they always ask me, which is the
secret is bowl to be also
even some of them this year
he mentioned his grandfather should be
protagonist of the famous movie
bellamy Moor who closed in s with
cold well this man does not have
secret his has always spoken three
principles and has recommended them first
eat well of everything but in moderation
do not believe in the temples second
sleep well always waking up with the
quiet conscience and third do the
good to be a good person
well for this magnificent man a
small part of my family settled down
in fusagasugá
I am one of them born here and live
in this region has allowed me to know
incredible places recognized the
economic importance that this
region derived mainly from
agricultural activities also of its
strategic geographical position
close to the capital
but much beyond this its
true wealth is called diversity
we have the largest wasteland in the world
river water births a wide
flora and fauna collection
of course the quality of its people and
a diverse gastronomy that
represent weekends when
we see the high mobility of visitors and
tourists but is that whoever loves
lose the picket with chicken the sucker
the rod with arema the let’s scream 18
recognizing this beautiful laboratory
alive
I understood the importance and
responsibility that he had in front of the
conservation of these resources
natural as a citizen as
professional and as a researcher and
I remember then anecdotes from me
grandfather when he told us and the accountants
the family tasks of your visits to
jump to the tequendama jump to go from
fishing to the river bogotá by the almost
extinct pes captain
even makes the horseback riding and
walks among leafy forests and
make bonfires in accompanying
fireflies and of the cocuyos for me
those scenarios are imagined
it’s not in my memory to think about going to
river bogotá
but to catch an infection of a
bacterium even many years ago not
there will be a single firefly in
the nights used toys and then
I think if my generation is losing
its scenarios
what will happen to the following
generations it ‘s amazing how the
landscape of our region has changed
an accelerated way although we are
going through
historically a very environmental crisis
complex worldwide and this region
is no exception
here activities proliferate
especially inappropriate agricultural
excessive agrochemical monocultures
deforestation intensive production of
animals that if we add mining
illegal are not generating the
typical economic models of
extractivism or factor more change
united climate
all this is generating us lost the
water pollution diversity
poverty reduction in the quality of
our food and of course a
Impact of our mental health
physical and quality of life well the
panorama is complex and I’m going to
submit a figure first
the most important trigger that has
this crisis is called overpopulation
we are at this moment more than 7,500
millions of inhabitants
Colombia contributed the least
with 40 49 million
we have registered 194 countries
of the world birth rates that are
almost three times what existed does
less than a century when the portion the
proportion was 11
today it is completely different well
panorama is complex but there is a lot
do and that
challenge from us to date
we have 71 peasant families
who are involved in our
different research projects
supported with the University of Denmark
about four years ago as
observe on the map are distributed
by different municipalities and colors
to be represented on the map which
it’s in dark coffee are the areas of
mass removal and those that are in
green in the erosion that this progresses is
say they are located in very areas
vulnerable that if we add those
inadequate practices are going to
lead to a deeper and deeper crisis
at an environmental level
good the focus our works
always has an important component and
it’s the people if we do not involve our
producers the family the farmers do not
there is a sense there is no goal and for
so there would be no social impact
because they are the ones who allow
a transformation in their communities
Within our projects is the
promotion of security and sovereignty
food through the
implementation of practices
agroecological practices that do not
they are always easy to apply but that
they are a necessity nowadays before these
challenging environmental circumstances and
economic
good in our travels
It was always very common to find women
very willing very interested in these
themes are women innovative women
rural identify it as a woman
protagonist in these scenarios in
these adoption processes
without them the changes would be very
different
for that reason I want to introduce you
four cases of women who are
making a change in their locations in
their communities because there is a factor
but all of them are very worried
because young people do not want to stay
in the field
this is another national problem
we are having we are staying
without people from our rural sector
the problem is going to present the
first the first lady is already called
Marlem Marley Mrs. Marlene is
producer of organic aloe
she belongs to the victory
cerca arbeláez is a divorced woman
besides head of family and not only
produces organic aloe
she is trying to implement the
products like a homemade shampoo and
additionally gates for
baby
I think that last product many
of us had not heard it before
within the commercials usually
they are selling this type of products
the second case we have the lady light
dary this lady is a widow from the
path san raimundo is a
small business owner of arepas she herself
makes the time commercialize them and something very
important
uses two products that for many of
we maybe do not know how very
nice that is the value and the uat and the
good and produce a flour
dietary cookies and it’s
dabbling in the sector
cosmetological as it is producing
an exfoliating cream for the face and or
I bought 15 days ago and sap has
operated so far the third
case we have the lady leticia this
woman there of the observe was the first
producer of organic coffee in the
sardines trail
this lady for the first time in
his community spoke of a term that
it is little known to many flame
agroforestry that is a technique
additional is a form of production and
this woman is fostering within
their communities
this new way of producing as the
previous not only produces this
lady is innovating in a sauce
coffee for cane production
many many women who are very
creative looking for another kind of
products in the market
We have Mrs. Maria Carmen
listen to it
how very well times have changed and
Today it has become us
face to help raise the
children contribute financially to the place and
a lot of women who are head of
family
Camps since we do not give to
this association has already more than eight
years because we saw that the goal was
produce and sell clean well the lady
Maria Carmen is the leader of the
association to his promise that are the
most important organic markets
here of fusagasugá these four
women represent a quantity of
cases that come behind
these women are anonymous to many
they would pass as one more but they are the
true diamonds of the field
they are transforming toto no
only in those innovations did it come out
here in the photographs the
day and until four in the morning
many of us are sleeping and
some believe that the peasants to
slopes like chickens at six o’clock
the afternoon
That’s not the day for them
They can easily reach until 9 10
at night because it is that not only
is responsible for complying with the
activities that give their subsidy but that
additionally they have the activity of
the family
many of them are collaborating in the
raising their grandchildren and additionally
the commitments they have with their
communities
these are four women to show
four women to admire
but there is even more additionally
picking up the first point of my grandfather
when he said you have to eat well of everything
but with moderation
so I ask them to eat well with
moderation
that means I have to be
worried where I have to buy
the food where they are doing it
you are supporting women like
Doña Letizia
oña dary light that every day are
making a great effort to produce
in an organic way in a healthy way
products for all of us there are two
markets in fusagasugá that there is a
firm to 16 years and the most paradoxical
is that the majority of consumers that
they go there are from Bogota they are not from
fusagasugá and then where is the
responsibility of us as
consumers supporting our people
local
that is an invitation to us as
research group within the
collective with the students and some
teachers we have another commitment
additional and is to create a network of
organic producers to boost
those products and to help
Position those markets
we started 70 and peasant families but
the challenge is to unite more people because
our landscape in soils is not the
better not only the rural woman is
is making protagonists in the field
there are young people and many students of
the university with denmark
some even graduates who are
trying to make innovations that is
having the responsibility to search
solutions in front of all these
Agro- environmental challenges
for that reason I want to present to a
young woman of peasant origin with all
an attitude of improving and the quality of
life of your neighbors
that’s why I want to invite at this moment to
a student of karen university
sanchez
I’m Karen Sánchez I’m 21 years old
coming from one of the departments
most beautiful of our country
the caquetá together with my family we travel
to fusagasugá with the intention of looking
better educational opportunities
condition generously supports by my
parents
I live in the path santa rita alta del
girl jungle town which as
all areas have difficult access
Dial cause why I have to walk
more than one hour a day to take
public transport and although in these
tours
the weather was not always my best ally
because sometimes it comes with my
shoes and clothes completely soaked
Well, these situations were never a
impediment to continue advancing in my
studies and continue working for me
dream
I entered the university of
cundinamarca in order to meet my goals
professionals always motivated me the
agriculture and I feel happy and happy
of living in the countryside feeling area
of my family of peasant origin I had
the great opportunity to bond with me
seedbed of research the
natalia teacher is playing in which
had the ability to assess the
agroecological systems as a
vital and viable alternative production and
I am applying my knowledge in the
implementation of raw materials
conventional in the feeding of
rabbits and today I want to make a
invitation to all rural youth
who love what he wants in the field and
all my companions only termites
engineers so that we assume with greater
commitment the rural sector
understanding that we are the relay
generational responsible for contributing
solutions to the difficult problems
environmental and food safety
we have to support our people because
we are all part of it
matrix called humanity
Thank you
[Music]
well and as karen there are many cases of
young people who are starting with
a lot of effort
those opportunities those challenges and for
who deserve and deserve to have a
permanent commitment to accompany us
to teach them and deliver absolutely
all because as Karen said it is
our generational change
Thank you
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