El Territorio Campesino Agroalimentario es una apuesta de poder popular

Abstract

The Colombian peasantry, organized in the National Agrarian Coordinator (CNA), is committed to organize the territory from its own territorial figure with a focus on popular power. The territorial figure is known as Territorio Campesino Agroalimentario (TECA), based on the Plan de Vida Digna, the peasant organization and its own governance capacity. The case of the TECA del Macizo (TECAM), located in the north of the department of Nariño and south of the department of Cauca, is analyzed from the axes of peasant economy, peasant youth and self-government with the objective of identifying their contributions to the construction of popular power, under the methodology of semi-structured interviews to peasant leaders of the TECAM and the review of bibliographic material that the CNA has published on the TECA. This work also seeks to be a theoretical contribution to the process of construction of peasant territoriality that some rural communities have been carrying out in Colombia since 1991, the year in which the current National Constitution was born, which recognizes indigenous and Afro peoples as subjects of rights, excluding the peasant subject in this recognition.