Implementación de un proyecto de huertas caseras como estrategia comunitaria de seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en el barrio La Cumbre de la localidad Ciudad Bolívar(Bogotá).

Abstract

In Colombia, due to a decrease in local production and high dependence on food imports, the country's food security is a matter of concern, according to the national food and nutrition security policy there are some issues that contribute to increasing this problem; environmental degradation and climatic factors can influence the development of the agricultural and nutrition sector, the dimension of the economic, social and ecological impacts derived from the materialization of an undesirable event and one of the sensitive issues in food security is inadequacy of income for the purchase of food, The Cumbre neighborhood is located in one of the towns of Bogotá that has one of the highest poverty rates with 10.9%. According to this, the neighborhood and some sectors of the town comply with this description of their situation of poverty and food insecurity, calculations that are supported according to the Mission for the Splicing of the Employment, Poverty and Inequality Series ( MESEP) based on the Continuous Household Survey (ECH) and the Large Integrated Household Survey (GEIH) of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE). A question arises from all these premises. Will the implementation of a set of cesaras gardens work as a community strategy to improve the nutritional deficit, the availability of certain types of food in the La Cumbre neighborhood of the city of Bolivar city of Bogotá? Given the silver situation, the general objective of this proposal will allow the production of a group of priority foods that exclusively includes agro-food and in no case processed foods, based on considering nutritional aspects, along with the timely, permanent consumption in quantity and quality through these orchards.