Diseño de un sistema agroforestal bajo criterios de agricultura regenerativa en cultivos de cacao, como estrategia para impulsar el desarrollo local sostenible en la finca San Antonio, de la vereda Moral y Loma Alta, municipio de Pauna, Boyacá.

Abstract

Currently, the need to implement activities in production systems that have a lower impact on ecosystems has become more pressing. Therefore, practices such as the intensive use of agrochemicals, intensive soil mechanization, and inadequate waste management are not viable for this purpose. Thus, regenerative agriculture encompasses all practices that promote the proper use of natural resources, as well as the promotion of philosophies surrounding the well-being of producers. For this reason, the implementation of this form of production is sought with the goal of maintaining environmental sustainability, financial viability, technical feasibility, and social acceptability, resulting in the local development of a particular territory. Likewise, agroforestry systems are one of the practices studied in regenerative agriculture, which seeks symbiosis between different species, whether animal or plant, achieving a common benefit and increasing the yields of the production system. This thesis was conducted to develop a design proposal for an agroforestry system, taking into account regenerative agriculture criteria, on the San Antonio cocoa farm, located in the Moral and Loma Alta neighborhoods of the municipality of Pauna, Boyacá. The project seeks to strengthen cocoa cultivation as a strategy to promote sustainable local development for local producers. To develop the proposal, a diagnosis of the biotic, abiotic, and socioeconomic environments of the San Antonio cocoa farm was conducted through field assessments of the area and the collection of secondary data. Following this, and based on the information collected, an agroforestry system was designed using regenerative agriculture criteria for cocoa crops in the study area, tailored to the specific conditions of the area. Finally, the environmental sustainability, financial viability, technical feasibility, and social acceptability of the proposed model were evaluated to determine its effectiveness and the possibility of its implementation in the study area.