SG-06
SG-06
PROJECT INFORMATION
Ayllu resilience mechanism to face the effects of climate change based on the dialogue of local knowledge in combination with innovative technologies to strengthen food security in the community of Micaya, Municipality of Colquencha-La Paz, Bolivia.
Principal investigator (PI):
Noemi Tirado Bustillos, Instituto de Genética, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia
E-mail: noemistirado@gmail.com
Phone: +591 2222 9613
Duration & funding:
(November 2023–2024) USD 15,000
Co-funding offered:
USD 35,327
Participating countries:
Bolivia
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Ayllu Resilience Mechanism Project to confront the effects of climate change through the dialogue of local knowledge in combination with innovative food security technologies in the community of Micaya in the Municipality of Colquechaca aims to investigate the consequences of the implementation of a resilience mechanism, based on soil management in synergy with the dialogue of knowledge and the components: production systems, psychosocial management, education, food, nutrition, and eco-health. This mechanism is based on their ayllu-type life system, which consists of a self-sustaining social unit that educates its own children and grows or markets all the food they eat, which allows them to properly manage soils for the development of productive systems, applying ancestral technologies complemented by innovative technologies (use of zeolitic dispensers, living barriers and organic fertilizers). The mechanism will have a positive impact on the agricultural production system, leading to the strengthening of best practice schemes, maintaining the natural system, guaranteeing effective resilience to climate change, and improving living conditions in terms of a diet with highly nutritious products that allow strengthening the four pillars of food security (availability, access, use, and stability) which have an impact on the good health of the population.
The transdisciplinary approach will be used in a coordinated manner between researchers from different disciplines, native and municipal authorities, and other organizations associated with the research project (OAPI) through the use of the dialogue of knowledge and resignifications, which consist of co-transfer methodologies in the first case and in the second it refers to a process of reflection, which allows the transformation of meanings. It is an investigative exercise, in which complexity is a feature of reality, and interpretive thinking must be taken into account as a way of remembering.