Propuesta para fortalecer la chagra andina desde el conocimiento ancestral: una contribución a la conservación del Bosque Alto Andino en el Resguardo de Males Municipio de Córdoba- Nariño 1990-2020

Abstract

The Chagra as an ecological and cultural system considered as a means of sustainability for indigenous peoples is subject to multiple tensions that have caused its tendency to disappear in recent years. The objective of this work is to show, in the context of the Males reservation, the relationship between deforestation processes of the high andean forest and the decline of the Chagra, in the last three decades between 1990 and 2020. For this purpose, secondary information was compiled and systematized, complemented with descriptive and ethnographic research, the life histories of the participants, social mapping and the application of the Corine land cover methodology. Among the main findings is that the decline of the Chagra is due to the differential but simultaneous concurrence of multiple factors, including the increase of roads and the consequent increase in population, with direct effects on deforestation, monocultures, as well as the absence of leadership of the maximum authority of the Resguardo, all of which has influenced the decline of the Chagra culture and contributed to the deforestation of the high andean forest.