This initiative recognises the practices of the residents and encourages growing crops in urban areas as an alternative source of food for self-consumption, in addition to promoting environmental conservation, the strengthening of the social fabric and the appropriation of land through citizen participation.
In general terms, the project’s activities are aimed at: - complementing basic biological research with applied research in an urban context, for the sustainable use of some native plant species with high nutritional value; - carrying out exchanges of agricultural knowledge and know-how using clean technologies in spaces called Educational Nuclei with the communities of the city of Bogotá; - promoting environmental education initiatives to improve awareness and healthy habits and encourage the consumption of food with high nutritional value; - promoting participatory community alliances that can strengthen urban agricultural activities and neighbourhood ties, and thereby contribute to a better quality of life.
Resource collections
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience
