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Calendar 27/2/2024

Territorial Kit and APPA among the topics presented by UPRA to the Department of Economic Development of La Guajira and Corpoguajira

Kit Territorial y APPA entre los temas que expuso la UPRA ante la Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico de La Guajira y Corpoguajira

The Areas for the Protection and Production of Food (APPA) are in their final identification phase, for subsequent declaration, in the department of La Guajira.​

Bogotá D.C., (@UPRAColombia, @claudialili76). In order to support Territorial Development Plans and consolidate the work carried out in 2023 with APPA, UPRA met with the Department of Economic Development of La Guajira and the director of Corpoguajira, who highlighted the initiatives of the entity and its contribution to the agricultural sector of the department.

Dora Inés Rey, Technical Director of Social Organization of Property and Rural Land Market at UPRA, specified: "In La Guajira, we presented the Agricultural Territorial Kit and showed the progress and results we have had, providing inputs for the agricultural rural planning of the department."
 
Adriana Pérez Orozco, a technical advisor from UPRA, highlighted "the presentation by UPRA of advances in the analysis of the environmental determinants defined by Corpoguajira to enable areas within the conditioned agricultural frontier, to delimit Areas for the protection and production of food (APPA)."
 
Pérez also emphasized "the presentation of the work routes and projections in 2024 associated with the conceptualization of the marine coastal frontier and the zoning work in artisanal fishing that we are carrying out nationwide."
 

Both the Department of Economic Development and Corpoguajira praised the work carried out by UPRA and the tools available to territorial entities. In this regard, Jorge Figueroa, Secretary of Economic Development of La Guajira, commented: "We thank UPRA for being present here in the territory, informing us about everything they have advanced in rural agricultural planning, which we will use as a basis to direct our actions in line with what the national government has stipulated for our region."
 
Regarding APPA, the Secretary of Economic Development stated that "clear guidelines must be established in these areas, considering that we have to protect them to guarantee the production of food, which would be the basis and the beginning of our food security in our territory."
 
And the director general of Corpoguajira, Samuel Lanao Robles, highlighted the possibility of "making food production in the department of La Guajira sustainable, taking into account the environmental determinants we have in the territory and reaching every sector of the department of La Guajira."