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Calendar 11/6/2024

The Nature Conservancy and UPRA Sign Memorandum to Enhance Sustainable Development in Agricultural and Environmental Sectors

The Nature Conservancy y UPRA suscriben memorando para potenciar el desarrollo sostenible en los sectores agropecuarios y ambientales

Bogotá D. C., (@Minagricultura, @UPRAColombia, @claudialili76). Aiming to foster coordinated actions that enable sustainable development in Colombia's agricultural and environmental sectors, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and UPRA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. This agreement seeks to have the public and non-profit private sectors work together under the premise of nature conservation, food security, and community strengthening. 

​Claudia Vásquez, director of the TNC program for Colombia, expressed her joy at the opportunity this agreement presents: “We signed a memorandum of understanding with UPRA. For us, it's a dream come true because we believe that working with the entity that manages rural territory is essential for the proper conservation of our ecosystems, which provide services to all communities, such as farmers and producers. This becomes a win-win relationship between conservation and agriculture.”
 

In turn, Claudia Cortés, director of UPRA, commented: “We signed this memorandum of understanding with a focus on the affinities between the agriculture and environment sectors, particularly in territories where sustainability, conservation, and production coexist, especially in areas with peasant economies.” 
 

Opportunities of the Alliance 

The agreement between the parties will include the formulation and strengthening of joint programs aimed at territorial planning, conservation, productive transformation, and sustainable and productive rural planning through the participatory work of communities and institutions contributing to the sustainable development of rural Colombia. 

The agreement, which will last for three years, will feature a technical follow-up committee meeting biannually or as needed. 

Areas of Collaboration 

  1. Support for implementing the action plan of the Peace of Ariporo Livestock Landscape Charter. Development of projects and strengthening of local committee governance.
  2. Joint work contributing to the declaration of SIPAM: Peace of Ariporo in institutional management and development of technical products.
  3. Formulation, implementation, and systematization of community participatory programs and tools that deepen and appropriate territorial planning in implementing the Peace of Ariporo Landscape Charter.
  4. Joint projects to implement actions framed in territorial planning and land use with sustainable agricultural and environmental purposes, focusing on soil, air, water, and biodiversity management in territories agreed upon by the parties.
  5. Exchange of technical, scientific, productive, environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic information for evaluating and considering territorial planning in strategic ecosystems, for environmental conservation in territories identified by the parties.
  6. Strengthening joint capacities between UPRA and TNC, and in territories where it is decided to implement and strengthen agricultural rural planning approaches, such as agricultural landscapes, among other approaches considered by the parties.
  7. Joint dissemination of publications or events through the official channels of both entities.
  8. Joint organization of workshops, seminars, and other research meetings, and participation in programs of interest to both parties.
  9. Institutional capacity building through the exchange of best practices, procedures, and operational models, among others.
  10. Support for strengthening agricultural rural planning that includes elements of production, transformation, and traceability of agricultural products, among others, with a differential approach of sustainability and low environmental impact.