URBAN AGRICULTURE AND RE-TERRITORIALIZATION OF THE CITY OF BOGOTÁ (COLOMBIA) LIVED BY VICTIMS OF ARMED CONFLICT AND PEASANTS

Abstract

The internal conflict that Colombia has been experiencing since the middle of the 20th century has faced different armed actors such as guerrillas, paramilitary groups, criminal bands, among others, for the occupation of land and the appropriation of  drug trafficking routes. The violence generated mainly against the civilian  population  has  resulted  in  more  than  8  million  people being displaced from rural areas and mobilizing in cities like Bogotá.   Also,   a   socioeconomic   inequality   in   the   countryside intensified the process of rural-urban migration of peasants. In this scenario, the objective of this article was to explore the  role of urban agriculture (UA), in the  process  of  re-territorialization  of  Bogotá,  lived  by  victims  of  armed  conflict  and  peasants who arrived to the capital city. For this, it was carried out a bibliographic review   between   the   years   2009   and   2019,   which addressed the work of urban gardens done by victims of the conflict and / or peasants who migrated to the capital of Colombia. The results of 14 surveys were analyzed, and among the findings, it   is   highlighted   that   the   AU   practices,   through   urban gardens, provided the meeting between people from different areas of Colombia and the articulation of social links,  as  well  as facilitating the fabric of networks and the rescue of memories, narratives and knowledge of communities.