Cocoa-grower women managers of sustainable development in colombian post-conflict: Maripi municipality

Abstract

This study is part of the project called "Fami­liar cocoa agriculture and associativity in the West of Boyacá" managed by the GIDICON Group of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia. The research develo­ped tries to highlight the transcendental role that the cocoa-grower woman has played in the sustainable regional development of the Municipality of Mari pi Boyacá in the post-conflict period. To this end, from the case study, in the association ASOCAPAZ, it is evident how the woman with her enter­prising spirit is the protagonist of sustai­nable development: (i) in the social sphere, generating actions from the rural family, in the search of the countryside rebirth as an opportunity for inclusion; (ii) in the economic sphere, its leadership supports the activities necessary to overcome poverty; and (iii) in the environmental perspective, their actions contribute to the application of Good Envi­ronmental Practices and Good Agricultural Practices, in this sense, the substitution of crops allows an important improvement in the environment of the Municipality of Maripi.