Food Security and Sovereignty in the Department of Meta-Colombia: Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

The work in the field has evidently been the pillar on which the departmental economy has been based, and the socio-cultural development of the region. Regarding the agricultural sector and the productive potential of each zone, human settlements have been established in the different municipalities, roads have been laid out and development has been generated that has largely determined the means of subsistence for the Metensian families. On the one hand, the culture and development of the communities has historically been linked to the productivity of the land, the ecosystem services it offers, and the potential that it represents in terms of biodiversity. On the other hand, the generation of resources and wealth for the region evidently found and will continue to find in the agricultural sector, its strongest muscle, because through agriculture and livestock is that they have forged large industries that currently come working in the territory. The economy of the department revolves around agriculture, finds that the economic not only affects issues of income generation and expenditures, or imports or exports, but is intimately linked to social dynamics such as family farming, peasant economy and agriculture. security and food sovereignty, among others, this last one present in the plans of territorial ordering and in the agenda of great cooperation agencies that are present in the region, but that have not had concrete results that allow above all to fulfill the task of what it means to be a sovereign territory in terms of food for their communities.