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Memories assemblies Farmers Markets in Ibague, Tunja and Granada

Between 29 November and 10 December, made the second round of regional assemblies Farmers Market. Producers participated eighty municipalities in the central region of Colombia. Here are some testimonies of three of the six meetings held in Ibague Tunja and Granada:

Ibague, Tolima

"We have forgotten who we are," said Carlos Ancizar, cofounder of the Association of Peasants Norte del Valle del Cauca and the Association of Rural Women's Norte del Valle del Cauca, when opening the assembly of Tunja on December 3, 2010, which took place in the Teachers Union of Boyacá. The peasant leader said that the peasantry has been the main actor from the beginning of the world and today's farmers no longer are spokespeople themselves. "We produce what we eat and what we call" closed his speech. At the meeting it was stressed, among others, the importance of regional farmers' markets recover. Gloria Montoya

ILSA and reminded the meeting that Farmers Markets are not only important to sell products, but also serve for visivilizar the peasantry.

Tunja, Boyacá

"In Bogotá consumed 9,000 tons of food daily. 70 percent of these products come from small producers," said Ephraim Villamil opening the assembly in Ibague, Tolima, November 30, 2010 in the Cooperative Coosolidaria. He stressed the importance of local agreements - described them as "powerful" - and said to be increasing organic production. With the words "we have to take ourselves historic responsibility" to strengthen the peasantry and invited the farmers to gather in groups to discuss and build agendas and work plans for 2011. "We need to be autonomous, save space and not wait for anybody," said a farmer. "We need to do in this process so that our children see the field as an alternative to economic development. The company is a neglected field. We build this company!" Said another.

Many people who attends the meetings, not yet organized. Like, for example, Tiberius and Edilberto Vargas, son and father, Tuta, Boyacá: peaches that grow, are selling at a toll. A cousin who is a member of the municipal committee invited to join in the assembly. The two think better organized to market the products.

Granada

Meta Meta is a department where farmers and are still not very organized. Their land - with the little they produce - are still sprayed. In parts of the Target under, there are several human rights commissions. "There are cases in which it was fumigated banana and cassava. We take care of all the lower Ariari. We keep a register of all land affected, but contact with the government is very difficult," says Edilberto Daza Commission National human rights.

The purpose of the meeting in Granada, which took place on December 10, 2010 at the College of Camilo Torres, was to sensitize farmers and the importance of creating committees Regional mutually reinforcing. "We need to institutionalize the face Farmers Markets in Bogota and multiply," Ephraim said Villamil. Also said to be part of a municipal committee small enough to be a producer and live in the region. And female farmers were satisfied with what they heard and learned in the assembly. Many took the opportunity to make contacts and e-mail noted the Farmers Market news and Advocacy Committee.