Prácticas agrícolas tradicionales del pueblo indígena Kamëntsá relacionadas con la soberanía alimentaria en el municipio de Sibundoy, Putumayo, Colombia

Abstract

This research aims to be a means to strengthen the traditional agriculture practices of the Kamëntsá indigenous people related to food sovereignty, as these practices are threatened by an industrialized world and modern lifestyle that affected the biennium of all living beings and thus life. For the development of this research, a qualitative methodology was established and developed in two phases: exploratory and field. First, a bibliographic search was conducted in 4 databases; with the information obtained from the traditional agricultural techniques, the site is recognised and the subjects of study were therefore reviewed some studies and history of the municipality of Sibundoy. The next step was the approach to the indigenous people to access their territory, their people and to know their knowledge, their daily lives and their affections; field work through the application of semi-structured interviews validated by an expert to selected indigenous people who had the following characteristics: people who have practised agricultural activity in jajañ for many years, people of respect within the community, who had comprehensive and sufficient knowledge about the operation of the jajañ and wished to respond to a semi-structured interview. With the answers obtained in the application of the semi-structured interview, it is possible to confirm that the jajañ is a space considered to be a living school, where knowledge is experiences, family union, collectivity, culture is practiced and above all the harmony relationship between man, animals, plants, moon phases and the transmission of knowledge are shared, which enable Kamëntsá to have a good life and live healthy within the framework of applying this own tools and technologies.