The relationship between land access and food autonomy in bitaco village, municipality of La Cumbre Valle del Cauca, Colombia

• Main Author: Lorena Castañeda Zuluaga
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Valle 2019-12-01
• Series: Entorno Geografico
• Subjects: food autonomy; farmers; agricultural
• Online Access: https://entornogeografico.univalle.edu.co/index.php/entornogeografico/article/view/8893/11520

The concentration of land ownership has greatly affected the agricultural production of our country, so much so that the current dynamics of economic capital seriously threaten the right to adequate food. In the Colombian case, we observe a problematic situation where peasant communities are being stripped of their territories, to be handed over to monopolies and transnational corporations. The concentration of land by these companies causes multiple contradictions between them; a noticeable reduction of the land and extraction of natural resources which prevents the development of the different productive agricultural activities of the rural communities