Llaguipulli Indigenous Community
This project arises from the needs and aspirations of our families, and is based on our capabilities, experiences, processes of participation, self-organization and ongoing collaboration, which has enabled us to generate a comprehensive assessment of opportunities and challenges of our family agriculture in a context of limited access to natural resources, climate and social instability, but on the other hand, we find incentives and emerging capabilities to launch a long-range agro-ecological transition. make key investments for the promotion of agro-ecological transition strategies through a sustainable intensification of orchards, smaller breeding and agroforestry systems, with a focus on the role of women in the community.
The Indigenous Community Llaguepulli is located south of Chile, Araucania region, Teodoro Schmidt commune. The LOF Llaguepulli is located 115 km south-west of Temuco, capital city of the ninth region of Araucania. The nearest town is Puerto Dominguez located approximately at a distance of 14 kilometers. Puerto Dominguez is a Lof situated on the shores of Lake Budi, the only salt lake of South America, which population is 100% Mapuche, link to ancestral knowledge, traditions and customs.
Sisterhood relationship, knowledge sharing and strategic support. Agreed strategy for adding value to local products. Business plan for the initiative of production and commercialization of local products.1 4 families committed through mutual agreements to implement a pilot organic plantation. 1,000 kilos of seaweed-based compost produced for the first time. 4 pilot crops of organic quinoa. 26 families with tool kits or “kits” of appropriate technologies. At least 2 experimental processes of storage, labeling and marketing. Mutual support mechanisms for financing value chains in the pilot stage.
