Análisis de la transformación y nivel de sostenibilidad del territorio, por la producción del cultivo de la caña panelera en la Vereda Chapaima del municipio de Villeta Cundinamarca

Abstract

Within approaches to sustainable territorial development, transformation processes of the territory as a result of the production should be analyzed with a focus on sustainability, in order to overcome the problems confronting rural development. The project included addressing the interpretation, discussion and analysis of its transformations from the assessment of a case study: Vereda Chapaima municipality of Villeta, regarding sugarcane agricultural production systems typical of traditional type in the department of Cundinamarca. In this regard, the analysis of the territory as a discussion of sustainability, was based on the implementation of the evaluation of the functions of production, ecological and economic partner, through structural analysis and time / space and territory Biograma, tools and methodologies that allowed analyzing the territorial sustainability as part of the productive activity of sugarcane cultivation. The land cover and landscape were analyzed by applying Geographic Information System (GIS) to identify changes in coverage area and land use in areas of panela production; production efficiency was evaluated by the production function and hence the sustainability of the system from Biograma whose dimensionality valued corresponded to the economic / productive. In turn, the information was validated by consulting producers and farmers participatory form of contrasting to identify the transformation processes of the territory and development of their society. The evaluation contrasting production processes with sustainability, territorial sustainability is limited in its production systems from the effects of fractionation of natural hedges, whose productive environmental function is reduced by not ensuring mooring conditions soil fertility circulation, accumulation of organic matter and moisture retention and increasing erosion. In turn, the production function evidence the low productive potential of soils in the path, and hence the particular need of the peasants to occupy larger areas for efficiency and meet production demand, affecting the natural capital of the territory.