This is me when I’m little
I grew up between the countryside and the city lived
in the countryside and school in the city
for many of you surely these
two spaces are opposite but for me
they never were in fact always me
I felt like a bridge between these two
spaces
and maybe that’s what made
he studied anthropology and he worked with
local communities on issues of
territory and environment
and if there is something valuable that I learned from
the communities is the link with the
territory and learned that the human being
is an extension of the territory and the
territory is an extension of the body
human
and there are many ways of being
human
and those communities that have that
close link with the territory you
give value to those elements that are
vital for life like water and
fertile soil as the aura told us
now earlier
to the point that many of these
communities in your territory as your
own mother as in the case of this
peasant in the Tolima region that
he said he would defend the river and where
He bathed as a child as his own mother
and I found it fascinating to see
as that link with the territory
detonates grassroots social movements in
defense of the territory
and these grassroots movements have a
wonderful thing and that is that leaders emerge
emerging that maybe they have not studied
masters and doctorates but that that
link with the territory and its
commitment to defend what makes it
express all those qualities of
collectively defend their territory from
one with a leadership that is shared and
horizontal
many of us do not know but to
throughout the history of our country
these social movements have influenced
in decisions that have taken the court
constitutional
thanks to the incidence of groups
humans who have wanted to participate in
the decisions that will affect your future
In this country , policies have been formulated
and government programs that respond to
those interests of the civil society of
done for that reason Colombia at a
International is recognized as a country
cutting – edge in terms of
recognition of rights
something that I find fascinating about
these grassroots movements is that it
they organize in a very different way to
the way they are organized and they
Organize organizations
conventionally because they are not
centralized and decentralized but
distributive and that causes a
democratic collective intelligence that
she is self-taught independent solidaria
emerging free and collaborative for me
all these qualities are very feminine
and are those qualities that as beings
human beings we must incorporate into our
lives to be able to face the challenges that
we have today
these movements also work to
from principles of cooperation
reciprocity and mutual respect
difference of our system
Conventional that is organized from
elements such as competition and
consumption and this is still very much alive in
traditional communities by
example when they have to make a
large collective work convene a
minga like this man in the photo that
I invite all your neighbors to give you
will help how to build the great house
or the great maloka in which they live
and then these social movements
and imitate or rather incorporate elements
who use nature in their
strategy that he has made successful by
millions of years and it is from the
solidarity and collaboration that
they organize
and then what I think
fascinating is that then the beings
humans when we are expressing that
link with the territory and we
we organize collectively for
respond to that link we are acting
as part of the live system
and we adopt one of the most
beautiful of nature one that has
mentioned several times today in the
scenario that is resilience and is the
ability of a system to evolve
to survive the changes that are
face when changing yourself
and so real alternatives arise for
communities based on riches
of the territory and in the attributes of the
people who inhabit it and you are
alternatives are the ones that really
show that it is possible to base our
sustenance in alternatives that bring
welfare for both communities
as for the for the environment as
the case of the peasants of Cajamarca
who chose to give dignity to their
peasant identity maintain the vocation
agricultural of its territory
and strengthen your identity at
commercialize the arracacha to cajamarca
is the number one producer of arracacha
in the world and also this region is
known as the agricultural pantry of
Colombia and these farmers have taken
the decision with absolute conviction of
who want to maintain that identity and that
agricultural vocation and then they have done
very important contacts with
restaurants like crepes waffles in the
city to resignify this
ingredient that is widely used
in rural kitchens but very little in
the restaurants in the city and this is
has become a real alternative
for the peasants and their identity
this is an example of how
communities can choose their good living
can define from themselves what
for them it is well-being and what welfare
they want to leave the generations that
come is a car capacity of
collectively determine what it is that
they want for their future from their own
way to be human
and I realized that this had a
gigantic value and infinite power and
working with one of these communities
I felt the need to take these
stories from colombia and give them
international visibility then with
one of the cases we wrote a letter to
communities that were doing
similar processes in other countries and it was
when I realized that solidarity
has the power to turn a voice into
a movement
so it ‘s really to put into practice
that identity that felt since childhood
of being bridge between worlds and has had
the opportunity to visit many
communities around the world leading
the stories of him from the local to
other places that although they are different
they share similar qualities and
they learn from the strategies that others
communities have applied
and so I realized that in spite
that these processes have
different expressions in each of
the places where you live because it is
informed by the context itself the
culture and local identity there
common elements that if they are put into
and potentiate the relationship strengthens
local processes and gives life to new
opportunities like this
framework that does not determine where it is going
to grow the plant if of the if it gives the
opportunity to climb I have tried to
do the same with those communities
providing and facilitating processes for
that when they meet and share their
strategies are empowered and empowered
your processes
and then I have asked myself what is it
What is happening to us?
proposing these communities and has
realize that what they are us
proposing is a paradigm shift
that moves us away from a model in which
human being is the apex of a pyramid
where we can use nature
at our whim based on principles
hierarchical and competition and we
invites us to think of ourselves as part of a
system from participation and
the colaboration
and these communities then invite us
to question and rethink the way
how we participate in the living system that
it sustains us like that child that is
choosing to participate impacting your
closest context that is the forest of
their community
and I think it ‘s a very valuable question
and it’s an opportunity that we all have
we rethink the way in which
we participate in the living system that we
hold
because when we do it we understand that
of the participation of each one of
we depend on the resilience of
all
and because he is through this story
today to you and I do not want you to stay
as a story of experiences
locals in remote parts of this country
and it’s because I’m absolutely
convinced that the only way that
we perform with humans is
when we understand that we are part of
something beyond ourselves
like this little girl who participates in a
comparsa and cheerfully in a way
unique and particular gives his smile to
a collective then I think and I’m
absolutely convinced that despite
that we can reach many elements
that are part of the definition of
wealth of success with which we
they taught me to live I’m absolutely
sure that in isolation we are never going to
achieve a feeling of fullness and
realization as we achieve
when we really understand what they are
our unique gifts as an individual and
how we put ourselves at the service of that of
that all beyond ourselves
because there we understand that we are
contributing and that we are participating
and that we are delivering a unique gift
to this system that we are part of
and is that traditional communities
they have known it for many
generations and they continue to put it in
practice that’s why all the scaffolding
cultural of the communities
Traditional is designed to
accompany the individual in their process of
transformation throughout his life
providing the elements so that
understand yourself as part of a
collective
and they understand very well that
everything is more than the sum of the parts
then I invite you to us
let’s ask what its all
what group are they part of
how they contribute to that group being
the best version version of what is
I have a daughter a year and a half and now
yes who do this question all the
days that passes if we think our everything
beyond the world with which
we interact in our daily life
what happens if we understand that everything is
the planet that gives us the opportunity
to live
so that’s why I invite you to
let’s recover the power of the collective
because we can not doubt that a
small group of conscious citizens
and little committed
has the ability to change the world
in fact it is the only thing that has achieved it
Thank you
[Applause]
I grew up between the countryside and the city lived
in the countryside and school in the city
for many of you surely these
two spaces are opposite but for me
they never were in fact always me
I felt like a bridge between these two
spaces
and maybe that’s what made
he studied anthropology and he worked with
local communities on issues of
territory and environment
and if there is something valuable that I learned from
the communities is the link with the
territory and learned that the human being
is an extension of the territory and the
territory is an extension of the body
human
and there are many ways of being
human
and those communities that have that
close link with the territory you
give value to those elements that are
vital for life like water and
fertile soil as the aura told us
now earlier
to the point that many of these
communities in your territory as your
own mother as in the case of this
peasant in the Tolima region that
he said he would defend the river and where
He bathed as a child as his own mother
and I found it fascinating to see
as that link with the territory
detonates grassroots social movements in
defense of the territory
and these grassroots movements have a
wonderful thing and that is that leaders emerge
emerging that maybe they have not studied
masters and doctorates but that that
link with the territory and its
commitment to defend what makes it
express all those qualities of
collectively defend their territory from
one with a leadership that is shared and
horizontal
many of us do not know but to
throughout the history of our country
these social movements have influenced
in decisions that have taken the court
constitutional
thanks to the incidence of groups
humans who have wanted to participate in
the decisions that will affect your future
In this country , policies have been formulated
and government programs that respond to
those interests of the civil society of
done for that reason Colombia at a
International is recognized as a country
cutting – edge in terms of
recognition of rights
something that I find fascinating about
these grassroots movements is that it
they organize in a very different way to
the way they are organized and they
Organize organizations
conventionally because they are not
centralized and decentralized but
distributive and that causes a
democratic collective intelligence that
she is self-taught independent solidaria
emerging free and collaborative for me
all these qualities are very feminine
and are those qualities that as beings
human beings we must incorporate into our
lives to be able to face the challenges that
we have today
these movements also work to
from principles of cooperation
reciprocity and mutual respect
difference of our system
Conventional that is organized from
elements such as competition and
consumption and this is still very much alive in
traditional communities by
example when they have to make a
large collective work convene a
minga like this man in the photo that
I invite all your neighbors to give you
will help how to build the great house
or the great maloka in which they live
and then these social movements
and imitate or rather incorporate elements
who use nature in their
strategy that he has made successful by
millions of years and it is from the
solidarity and collaboration that
they organize
and then what I think
fascinating is that then the beings
humans when we are expressing that
link with the territory and we
we organize collectively for
respond to that link we are acting
as part of the live system
and we adopt one of the most
beautiful of nature one that has
mentioned several times today in the
scenario that is resilience and is the
ability of a system to evolve
to survive the changes that are
face when changing yourself
and so real alternatives arise for
communities based on riches
of the territory and in the attributes of the
people who inhabit it and you are
alternatives are the ones that really
show that it is possible to base our
sustenance in alternatives that bring
welfare for both communities
as for the for the environment as
the case of the peasants of Cajamarca
who chose to give dignity to their
peasant identity maintain the vocation
agricultural of its territory
and strengthen your identity at
commercialize the arracacha to cajamarca
is the number one producer of arracacha
in the world and also this region is
known as the agricultural pantry of
Colombia and these farmers have taken
the decision with absolute conviction of
who want to maintain that identity and that
agricultural vocation and then they have done
very important contacts with
restaurants like crepes waffles in the
city to resignify this
ingredient that is widely used
in rural kitchens but very little in
the restaurants in the city and this is
has become a real alternative
for the peasants and their identity
this is an example of how
communities can choose their good living
can define from themselves what
for them it is well-being and what welfare
they want to leave the generations that
come is a car capacity of
collectively determine what it is that
they want for their future from their own
way to be human
and I realized that this had a
gigantic value and infinite power and
working with one of these communities
I felt the need to take these
stories from colombia and give them
international visibility then with
one of the cases we wrote a letter to
communities that were doing
similar processes in other countries and it was
when I realized that solidarity
has the power to turn a voice into
a movement
so it ‘s really to put into practice
that identity that felt since childhood
of being bridge between worlds and has had
the opportunity to visit many
communities around the world leading
the stories of him from the local to
other places that although they are different
they share similar qualities and
they learn from the strategies that others
communities have applied
and so I realized that in spite
that these processes have
different expressions in each of
the places where you live because it is
informed by the context itself the
culture and local identity there
common elements that if they are put into
and potentiate the relationship strengthens
local processes and gives life to new
opportunities like this
framework that does not determine where it is going
to grow the plant if of the if it gives the
opportunity to climb I have tried to
do the same with those communities
providing and facilitating processes for
that when they meet and share their
strategies are empowered and empowered
your processes
and then I have asked myself what is it
What is happening to us?
proposing these communities and has
realize that what they are us
proposing is a paradigm shift
that moves us away from a model in which
human being is the apex of a pyramid
where we can use nature
at our whim based on principles
hierarchical and competition and we
invites us to think of ourselves as part of a
system from participation and
the colaboration
and these communities then invite us
to question and rethink the way
how we participate in the living system that
it sustains us like that child that is
choosing to participate impacting your
closest context that is the forest of
their community
and I think it ‘s a very valuable question
and it’s an opportunity that we all have
we rethink the way in which
we participate in the living system that we
hold
because when we do it we understand that
of the participation of each one of
we depend on the resilience of
all
and because he is through this story
today to you and I do not want you to stay
as a story of experiences
locals in remote parts of this country
and it’s because I’m absolutely
convinced that the only way that
we perform with humans is
when we understand that we are part of
something beyond ourselves
like this little girl who participates in a
comparsa and cheerfully in a way
unique and particular gives his smile to
a collective then I think and I’m
absolutely convinced that despite
that we can reach many elements
that are part of the definition of
wealth of success with which we
they taught me to live I’m absolutely
sure that in isolation we are never going to
achieve a feeling of fullness and
realization as we achieve
when we really understand what they are
our unique gifts as an individual and
how we put ourselves at the service of that of
that all beyond ourselves
because there we understand that we are
contributing and that we are participating
and that we are delivering a unique gift
to this system that we are part of
and is that traditional communities
they have known it for many
generations and they continue to put it in
practice that’s why all the scaffolding
cultural of the communities
Traditional is designed to
accompany the individual in their process of
transformation throughout his life
providing the elements so that
understand yourself as part of a
collective
and they understand very well that
everything is more than the sum of the parts
then I invite you to us
let’s ask what its all
what group are they part of
how they contribute to that group being
the best version version of what is
I have a daughter a year and a half and now
yes who do this question all the
days that passes if we think our everything
beyond the world with which
we interact in our daily life
what happens if we understand that everything is
the planet that gives us the opportunity
to live
so that’s why I invite you to
let’s recover the power of the collective
because we can not doubt that a
small group of conscious citizens
and little committed
has the ability to change the world
in fact it is the only thing that has achieved it
Thank you
[Applause]
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