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For Genaro Mart\u00ednez, the life of a landless peasant is like that of a migratory bird. This 68-year-old man from Caquet\u00e1 has spent much of his life producing coffee, corn, cassava, and plantains on the farm left to him by his grandparents and parents in the rural area of Florencia, the capital of Caquet\u00e1. But, like most of the inhabitants of these lands, he has no papers to prove it. That is why, when in 2014 he heard rumors that a peasant association was being formed to fight for the needs of the Caquet\u00e1 mountain range, he decided to join immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n

At that time, this territory\u2014which includes the municipalities of Florencia, Monta\u00f1ita, Paujil, and Doncello\u2014was under threat from \u201cthe bogeymen.\u201d That\u2019s what community leader Elda Yaneth Mart\u00ednez calls the extractive projects advancing in the area: two oil blocks and a hydroelectric plant that aimed to privatize the emblematic San Pedro River. Then, thousands of peasants, previously disjointed due to the war, came together again with a common goal: to stop the exploitation of their natural resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first thing they did was strengthen the work of the 124 community action boards in the four municipalities. After many meetings, going from village to village, in 2015 the Peasant Association of the Mountain Range\u2014Monta\u00f1ita, Florencia, Paujil, and Doncello Municipalities (Acomflopad)\u2014was born. But the initial concern remained: how to protect the territory?<\/span><\/p>\n

ZRC: The dream begins<\/b><\/h3>\n

From their neighbors in El Pato-Balsillas, in San Vicente del Cagu\u00e1n, they learned of a legal figure called the Peasant Reserve Zone, which had been established there in the 1990s. They were told that it did not guarantee the right to prior consultation or collective land titling (rights associated with Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities), but it did mean recognition \u201cof our way of working, living, our historical knowledge, and proposing a form of territorial planning,\u201d explains Elda, now president of Acomflopad.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was the answer. Peasant Reserve Zones are territories where peasant communities decide how to use the land through a Sustainable Development Plan and an Environmental Management Plan, which outline their collective life project and are later agreed upon with public authorities. Acomflopad decided to embrace this figure to achieve several of its goals: boosting the peasant economy, conserving the forest, and halting mining and energy projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Johana Romero, a board member of the organization, the idea sounded promising from the start. \u201cI liked the concept of the Peasant Reserve Zone because it opens many possibilities for this neglected territory. We don\u2019t have roads here, peasants don\u2019t have productive projects; nothing reaches us, except maybe politicians bringing three hens during election season.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Johana Romero, Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Artunduaga, Elda Yaneth Mart\u00ednez, and Henoc Enciso Mahecha are part of the Acomflopad board of directors.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Their friends from El Pato were honest: it wouldn\u2019t be an easy process\u2014it had taken them years of procedures and insistence before agrarian authorities. Still, they took on the challenge, and in 2020, Acomflopad formally applied to create the Cabeceras Orteguaza\u2013San Pedro Peasant Reserve Zone. The journey is just beginning, but if successful, it would become the second largest in the country: 233,000 hectares\u2014an area larger than Luxembourg.<\/span><\/p>\n

While that dream progresses, Acomflopad\u2019s peasants have created strategies to defend their rights while caring for the mountains, forest, and rivers. \u201cIt\u2019s everyone\u2019s job on our farms. We\u2019re already old, but we have children and grandchildren\u2014we don\u2019t want them to suffer in the future,\u201d says Jos\u00e9 El\u00ed Collazos, a peasant who arrived in the region 30 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The peasants of this area know they live on invaluable land for the environment, an ecological corridor home to species such as the jaguar. Their main tool for preserving it is the organization\u2019s Code of Coexistence. This document, drafted by the 124 boards through multiple discussion sessions that lasted until dawn, states that each property must keep at least 30% of the forest intact, prohibits cutting trees around water sources, and forbids hunting and fishing for commercial purposes. Anyone violating these rules must pay a fine. This is how they\u2019ve managed to control deforestation through what experts call closing the agricultural frontier\u2014or, as Elda translates, \u201cstop pushing into the forest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Related: <\/em><\/p>\n

Agrarian Authority establishes 3 Peasant Reserve Zones<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n
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The pride of conservation<\/b><\/h3>\n

Thanks to this collective care of the forest, Genaro can proudly say that from his farm he can see the most beautiful species of flora and fauna. For example, \u201csome giant, beautiful guans that wake you up at five in the morning with their calls\u201d; or the woolly monkey, to whom \u201cI whistle and he answers me\u201d; or an orchid that \u201clooks like an Arab bride.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Genaro is a man with a furrowed brow and stern gaze who softens when speaking of the nature around him. He says that if they become a Peasant Reserve Zone, he\u2019d like to create a tourist route to share with others the privilege he enjoys daily.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Genaro Mart\u00ednez lives next to the Miraflores\u2013Picachos Regional Park.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

It is no coincidence that he and his family have access to this landscape\u2014they are neighbors of the Miraflores\u2013Picachos Regional Park, created in 2018 with Acomflopad\u2019s support. An environmental milestone they earned through hard work. That year, Corpoamazon\u00eda began delimiting the new Regional Park, and, according to Elda, \u201cthey were going to create it over peasant settlements, which are historic.\u201d She\u2019s right, since the first Caquet\u00e1 peasants arrived there in the 1950s fleeing partisan violence, mainly from Tolima and Huila, as documented by the Sinchi Institute in the book<\/span> Caquet\u00e1: Construction of an Amazonian Territory in the 20th Century<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Then, the peasant organization launched an innovative proposal for environmental conservation and peasant rights to coexist in the same mountains. \u201cWe went to Corpoamazon\u00eda and told them: we need to compare your polygon with ours because it seems there is overlap,\u201d recalls Henoc Enciso Mahecha, Acomflopad\u2019s board member.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under the premise \u201clet the forest survive and so do we,\u201d local residents walked kilometers alongside officials, ensuring that the new Park\u2019s boundaries did not cover peasant homes. As part of the agreement, they left an 8-kilometer untouched forest strip between the park\u2019s limit and what will be the Peasant Reserve Zone. It is a buffer area which, as Genaro explains, \u201cis not for any peasant to destroy, but as a symbol to be protected.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Acomflopad meeting to discuss how to harmonize their PRZ with protected environmental areas.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The goal: conservation with peasants<\/b><\/h3>\n

Although under Gustavo Petro\u2019s government the dream of turning the Caquet\u00e1 foothills into a Peasant Reserve Zone seemed closer, a huge obstacle remains: 75% of those 233,000 hectares were designated as a forest reserve in 1959. This means peasants there cannot receive land titles. Elda, who always finds a way to translate legal jargon, sums it up as: \u201cthe forest must be kept just to look at.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But for Acomflopad, the forest is to be put to good use. That\u2019s why the organization\u2019s plan is to ask the government to remove the area from the Forest Reserve Zone and allow the second-largest Peasant Reserve Zone in the country to become a reality. This way, they are convinced, they will own their lands, continue greeting the monkeys, and listening to the flow of their rivers. This way, they will no longer be migratory birds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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*Journalist at Dejusticia<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

(**) This article is part of the #TejidoVivo special, the product of a journalistic alliance between the Dejusticia research center and El Espectador.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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