Women learning
Fondo para la Paz
Sharing knowledge
Identifying and value local knowledge and generating an exchange of it, as well as the transfer of technology appropriate with environment and community needs, which allow people strengthen its skills and abilities in order to carry out local and regional development projects.
This block is based on the recognition of local capacities, abilities, livelihoods and resources, as well as social and cultural resources specific to the community and its environment. As well as through the identification of strengths and weaknesses, it becomes possible to have the necessary information to identify and prioritize common problems.
We have a central catalyst for FPP betting: generate an exchange of knowledge and technology transfer for the environment and the problems detected, which allows the improvement of local production systems and facilitate the development and implementation of community projects. This catalyst make the bases to design projects of wellbeing, conservation agriculture, among others; that this exchange of knowledge and technologies is carried out and can be replicated and implemented in other community projects.
- Local promoters which lead the process of community participation in the project.
- Participation of families in participatory planning to identify needs and solutions for them community and commitment to work on it.
- Farmers identifying environmental services offered by their lands.
- Farmers taking trainings to improves the cultural management of their land, applying knowledge and working seeking to conserve environmental services
- Networks with different stakeholders to improve farming and market the products.
- We need to prioritize the ecosystem as the main base of development, in which one is inserted the social organization that strengthen the sustainable use of the environmental services that offer the region and that have a profitable economic activity as consequence.
- Participants of the projects having the main role in the process, we have to impulse them to participate seeking the way to give them confidence and security to participate, asking and sharing about the topics they want to know.
- Farmers have local knowledge as important as trainers and other stakeholders; they could strengthen their skills to identify the best practices for them.
- We have to give them the responsibility of their community, developing skills that permit farmers change the paradigm about farming as pick up harvest, to farming as way of life to drive development.