SIERRA NEVADA – MONTES DE MARIA – CHOCÓ – VILLAVICENCIO
Objective
To coordinate efforts, resources, and knowledge between the foundations Nutresa and Salva Terra with respect to the establishment and maintenance of the gardens in the communities of Montes de María and Chocó. With this, an objective of contributing to the promotion of local development, healthy habits, and the incorporation of good socio-environmental practices.
Actions
- Nutritional component : To identify nutritional consumption habits and to impact or promote consumption changes and strengthen healthy habits.
- Productive component : To generate food of high nutritional quality that meet specific vitamin and mineral needs for self-sufficiency and commercial chains, including access to sales force technology tools.
- Technical component : To support in the technical work of cultivation with the aim of providing the communities with knowledge and expertise in this area.
- Environmental component : The project will also be an environmentally friendly production option (environmental responsibility) and will focus on promoting the use of recycled materials (vegetable waste from the area, plastic bottles, lids, wires, etc.). Therefore, it will present an opportunity for the beneficiary population to make use of tools for food self-sufficiency, enabling the population’s direct access to food with high nutritional value which in turn favors the inhabitant’s health and nutrition. It will also promote the environmental awareness of both the directly and indirectly benefitted population.