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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Women Fostering Agroecological Practices in Colombia: the Familia de La Tierra and the Seed Keepers of Bogota Surroundings\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Jose Luis Eduardo Lopez Rosse Antequera, Cides Umsa, Strategies for Development, 1746 Tupac Amaru St, Cochabamba, Bolivia, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{joseeddy@yahoo.es}}\\[0.8ex]}}
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In a growing transnational and commercial world that imposes challenges for small producers at the southern hemisphere, there are ``Dreamers'' as cited by  Rafael Zavala Gomez del Campo, FAO-Colombia representative at the International Workshop on Innovative Approaches for connecting sustainable agricultural and agroecological practices to markets at developing countries held in june 2015 at Bogota. These ``Dreamers'' are producers, professionals, ecologists, citizens involved into agroecological activities at rural and urban scenarios at Bogota. 



Familia de la Tierra is a producer association that seeks the production and commercialisation of organic horticultural produce and potatoes at the surroundings of Bogota city. Jaime and Ari, are a couple of this association and they live at the Utopia Farm called ``finca madre'' (mother farm). It is called so because the farm is oriented to produce seeds for associates and experimentation of new species. Also is a place to visits for agroeco"=touristic activities. At Familia de La Tierra, Ari and other women share and exchange seeds creating a seed and planting bank at their farms in order to experiment with new species and create political civic conscience in the use of native seeds against the transnationalisation of seeds such as the presence of MONSANTO at the conventional agriculture that endangers small and agroecological agriculture at Colombia. For this reason, civil society such as organised producers belonging to ecological movements are paying much more attention to the use of native seeds and encouraging the agro"=industrialisation of their produce such as the potatoes chips cultivated at farms and industrialised by a national and private enterprise that pays well and on time to the associates for their produce. 



On the other hand, Familia de la Tierra has an interesting means of selling their produce through short chains, for example, they sell their specialty horticultural produce such as lettuce directly to gourmet restaurants and a Gastronomical School named ``Mi Cocina'' (My Kitchen) from Bogota city. This experience served to Familia de la Tierra to create new bonds with potential buyers who sell their produce on entrees, plates and salads and benefit from the agroecological origin of 



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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Agroecological production, direct marketing, short value chains, women
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