Socioecological practices and community resilience strategies for sustainable agriculture in lower Sinú, Colombia

This research examines the socioecological practices of ruralcommunities as an epistemological foundation to configurecommunity resilience strategies and face socio-environmentalconflicts due to limited access to water, loss of biodiversityand ancestral knowledge. To meet this objective, a qualitativeapproach was used with a non-experimental transectionalresearch design of exploratory type with a case study methodin the Association of Producers for Community Developmentof the Cienaga del Bajo Sinú-Asprocig, Colombia. As a mainresult, it is argued that the rural communities of the lowerSinú organized in associations carry out self-managementmodels that promote the articulation of social and ecologicalsystems, socio-environmental sustainability and makean adequate management of use and access to ecosystemservices. [Publisher's text]