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Report of District X: food vision and actions

Contents of the report for every district

3. Report of District X: food vision and actions............................................................................................1
1. The specific characteristics of your district at present.........................................................................2
2. The present opportunities of your district at present..........................................................................2
3. Food Challenges in your district at present..........................................................................................2
4. General principles of the future food vision 2100 in your district........................................................2
5. Overview of trends and developments in your district until 2100 (please make them specific for
your district!)...........................................................................................................................................3
6. Forecasting: A vision on the symbiotic urban food system 2100 in your district with desirable
outcomes..................................................................................................................................................3
7. Visuals and images...............................................................................................................................3
8. Backcasting: Actions needed by the different stakeholders to achieve the vision 2100.......................3
9. Recommendations for..........................................................................................................................4
10. Role of inclusive leadership in the transformation processes............................................................5
11. Other challenges to achieve the Food vision in your district..............................................................6
1. The specific characteristics of your district at present
1. Environmental characteristics (soil, water, biodiversity, greenery)
Usme's water resources are abundant: the Tunjuelo, Curubital, Chisacá, Lechoso
and Mugroso rivers are the most important. In the urban area of the town, among
other streams, the following stand out: La Requilina, La Taza, El Piojo, Chiguaza,
Yomasa, Bolonia, La Resaca, Santa Librada, Morales and El Zuque1. This locality has
an average annual temperature of 13°C, Relative Humidity between dry and semi-
dry, Total Precipitation 800 to 1,000 mm annual average (Rainiest period from April
to October) (Drier period from November to March) and Altitude 2276 meters above
sea level.
 2. Socio-economic characteristics (companies, neighboorhood initiatives,

The town Ciudad Bolívar is located in the south of Bogotá; it represents 27% of the total area of
the city 1. It is the first locality in total territorial extension (22,920 inhabitants), the first in
extension of rural area 2 and it has 219 ha. of expansion land 3. It borders on the north with the
locality of Bosa; to the south with the locality Sumapaz; to the east with the towns of Kennedy,
Tunjuelito and Usme; and to the west with the municipality of Soacha. Due to its geographical
position, it is considered a peripheral locality of connection with the municipalities of the south of
Cundinamarca.

 In Ciudad Bolivar, the lower socio-economic class predominates: 53.1% of the properties
are of stratum 1 and 39.9% of stratum 2.
 Ciudad Bolívar has 603,000 inhabitants (8.8% of the city's total), which places it fourth in
population and fourth among the localities with the lowest density, 46 persons per
hectare, above the city average (42 p/ha.).
 The average number of people per household in Ciudad Bolivar (3.9) is higher than in the
city (3.5).
 The employment rate in Ciudad Bolivar (54.7%) is below that of Bogota (55.1%). The
activities that most employed residents in Ciudad Bolivar were: commerce, hotels and
 restaurants (29.6%), social, communal and personal services (21%), manufacturing
industry (20.5%), transportation and communications (9.3%) and construction (9.2%).
 Ciudad Bolivar's unemployment rate (15.4%) is higher than that of the city (13.1%) and is
the fourth highest in terms of unemployment in the city: 9.9% of the unemployed reside in
the locality, equivalent to 45,000 people.
 The illiteracy rate in Ciudad Bolivar (4.8%) is higher than in Bogotá (2.2%).
 The population over five years of age in Ciudad Bolivar has an average of 6.7 years of
education, lower than in Bogota (8.7 years).
 Ciudad Bolívar's Living Conditions Index (83.7) is lower than that of Bogotá (89.4).
 Ciudad Bolivar is the first locality of Bogota in number of people with unsatisfied basic
needs (UBN): 97,447. 58.7% of the population is classified in level 1 and 2 of the
SISBÉN.
 Of the population of Ciudad Bolivar, 73.6% is affiliated with the health system, and it is
the thirteenth locality in terms of social security health coverage in Bogota, with the
majority of the affiliated population belonging to the contributory system (59%).
 The crude mortality rate for Ciudad Bolivar was 29.2 deaths per 10,000.
 Ciudad Bolívar's road infrastructure represents 7.1% of the city's road network, which is
equivalent to 1,028 lane kilometers of roadway, making it the fourth largest of Bogotá's
localities.
 75% of Ciudad Bolivar's roads are in poor condition, 61% of which are in poor condition
and 14% in fair condition, making it the eighth locality in terms of road deterioration.
 Ciudad Bolivar has the first local investment budget of the 20 localities of Bogota out of
the total 10.6%.
 Ciudad Bolivar is home to 252 of Bogota's 2,344 neighborhoods and eight (8) Zonal
Planning Units, of the 112 into which the city is divided, of which six (6) have already
been regulated and two (2) are unregulated.
 Ciudad Bolivar is home to 5,210 companies in Bogota, equivalent to 2.3%. The business
structure of the locality is concentrated in the service sector (75%), industry (17%) and
construction (6%).
 Of the total number of enterprises, 5,089 are microenterprises, representing 97% of the
locality and 2.5% of Bogota.
 The economic sectors in which the largest number of companies in Ciudad Bolivar are
located are: commerce (43%), industry (17%), restaurants and hotels (10%),
transportation, storage and communications (10%) and community and social services
(6%
 91% of the companies in Ciudad Bolivar are individuals and 9% are legal entities.
 Two percent of Ciudad Bolivar's companies carry out foreign trade operations.
 In Ciudad Bolivar, 1,950 companies were identified that can be linked to the food,
construction and civil engineering, textile and clothing production chains.
 Most of the locality's resources were allocated to infrastructure (45.5%), mainly for the
maintenance of the local road network, the construction of educational centers, sports
facilities, community halls and water and sewage networks.
The town Usme is the 5th district of the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia. It is located in the
southeast of the city of Bogotá. It was a former municipality of the department of Cundinamarca
until 1954, when it was incorporated into the metropolis.

 According to statistics from the National Planning Department, approximately 70% of

Usme is a rural area where most of the inhabitants are engaged mainly in agriculture
and, to a lesser extent, in livestock raising, distributing products such as potatoes,
onions, cilantro, strawberries, peas, curuba, among others, to the city of Bogotá D.C.,
and surrounding municipalities in the departments of Cundinamarca and Meta.
 Its residents are predominantly from socioeconomic strata 1, 2 and 3.

 Type of commerce in Usme:

3. Food security characteristics (access to food for the citizens)

 The pressure of urban growth both informal and formal has impacted negatively the
traditional food systems in both areas Usme (U) and Ciudad Bolivar (CB) creating high
risk of food security in the community, malnutrition in youth and childs and cultural
challenges on the traditional beliefs on the way and sense of food growing.
 Interventions from the public sector have become constraints but at the same time
opportunities presenting interesting differences between the food systems between the
rural areas of Usme and Ciudad Bolivar.
 Usme seems to have a stronger social structure at the level of the rural inhabitants,
indigenous people from different communities, traditions and cultural engagement, where
food production is a central part of the community's elderly . In this sense, institutional
interventions as (for instance) transformation to add value on food produced in Usme to
 get better prices have had an apparently better result because there is a culture of social
organization.
 Usme: the tradition of growing what the community (the family) consumes (with organic
practices based on beliefs and cultural value) and what is not consumed is what gets to
the market, is being challenged by market demands. Also the price they get is very low
because of competition with larger producers in the city, so ¨trueque¨which seems to be a
tradition among rural inhabitants is still a rather better business than selling the food for
some families.
 Interesting domestic gardens networks seems to be part of the form institutional actions
have taken, creating visibility on how the products coming from the gardens in Usme are
better grown.
 Rural Ciudad Bolivar on the other hand, seems to be at a higher risk mainly a weaker
organization at the community level, main information found narrows to diverse
institutional actions to get food security with apparently low success.
 Links, references and infografias found: check the folder created on the shared drive
¨Food¨

2. The present opportunities of your district at present

1. Present food hubs
 Usme: the tradition of growing what the community (the family) consumes (with organic
practices based on beliefs and cultural value) and what is not consumed is what gets to
the market, is being challenged by market demands. Also the price they get is very low
because of competition with larger producers in the city, so ¨trueque¨which seems to be a
tradition among rural inhabitants is still a rather better business than selling the food for
some families.
 Interesting domestic gardens networks seems to be part of the form institutional actions
have taken, creating visibility on how the products coming from the gardens in Usme are
better grown.
 Rural Ciudad Bolivar on the other hand, seems to be at a higher risk mainly a weaker
organization at the community level, main information found narrows to diverse
institutional actions to get food security with apparently low success.

2. Present greenery/parks

 The localities count from their strip of expansion with rural territory and
ecological reserve in the hills, this being their most important system. In
addition to this, it has specific metropolitan parks: Villa Alemania, Cafan,
Antopnio José, Villa Isabel, Desarrollo Usminia, Forenzo, Quebrada Chuniza,
Breazuelos, Famaco, Villa Anita. Among others on a smaller scale.
 3. Present neighboorhood initiatives
3. Food Challenges in your district at present
4. Environmental challenges
Protect the rural edge and ecological conservation ecosystems, introduce
green corridors in the urban context that allow the dynamics of native
animals and plants
 5. Socio-economic challenges
Reconstruct barter as a native economic system of the place, peasant and
indigenous cultural significance

6. Food security challenges

Self-supply taking into account the participation of residents on the urban
side as well as on the rural side, achieving a circular dynamic of production
and productive centralization.
4. General principles of the future food vision 2100 in your district
1. Symbiotics
Circular participation in all steps of food and commercial production, taking
into account actors from both the urban and rural sides, taking care of the
existing reserve zones that will be the pantry of the place
2. Ecocentrism
introduce ecological environmental corridors in the urban context that allow
the restitution of native animals and plants, while providing spaces for
community meeting and development of its inhabitants
3. Justice
equal access to all services and opportunities while promoting and motivating
duties in contributions to the community
5. Overview of trends and developments in your district until 2100 (please make them
specific for your district!)

1. Environmental trends
2. Socio-economic trends
3. Food security trends
6. Forecasting: A vision on the symbiotic urban food system 2100 in your district with
desirable outcomes
1. What does your food vision 2100 for this district look like?

Based on the term barter, it is expected that this practice may have a reach
in 2100 where little by little more people in rural and urban areas can adopt
this system as a means of supplying different food products.

2. What other trends and developments do you expect?

The consumption of local products as part of a more responsible nutrition
and not so much as part of a business scheme

3. Where will food production take place in the district in 2100?

The use of the land of the locality of which it is the majority gives it an
advantage, with respect to the other localities that are in the urban area, for
this reason it is intended to make a cultivable and responsible use of the
land.

4. What are the different values (economic, social, sustainability, values to

nature) that the urban food system 2100 needs to contribute to?

5. What is the role of future food hubs in your vision?

Supply and pedagogy, these two roles are of vital importance, to create
awareness with the use of the land and consumption of the most natural
products, in the same way to do pedagogy by extending the network

6. What will be the outcomes:

1. Desirable environmental outcomes: in terms of restored and healthy
environments of water, food, and nature

The recovery of bodies of water, the responsibility in their use, the balance in
ecosystems as a result of more technical practices in food planting

2. Desirable Food Security outcomes: in terms of food security and diets

The consumption of more natural foods, with the hallmark of organic, will
provide local health conditions and improvements, in addition to the practice
of agriculture by new users will provide self-sufficiency to a certain extent.

3. Desirable socio-economic outcomes: in terms of social and economic

just markets and institutions
The objective of seeking justice also involves the local economy in terms of
food, not only because of costs, but also to guarantee minimum
consumables, that each and every one of the residents has access to food is
paramount
7. Visuals and images
1. Of the total district existing situation

2. Of the district in 2100 future situation

3. Of specific examples/food activities/hubs in 2100, such as food hubs in

your district
 4. Of the story of your animals and plants in the district

8. Backcasting: Actions needed by the different stakeholders to achieve the vision 2100
1. What actors are involved?
2. What actions need to be taken by the different actors in terms of:
  The actions to transform socio-economic drivers: (e.g., new
institutions markets, policies, science and technology, social
organizations and individual factors)
 The actions for achieving just food activities: (e.g.,
urban/regional food supply systems, production, storage,
transportation, retail, consumption activities)
 The actions to restore environmental drivers: (e.g., restorative
production processes and technologies).

3. What are other obstacles that need to be overcome?

9. Recommendations for
1. Municipality/ Local government
Invest in programs or actions that help develop a pedagogy of agriculture
with a social sense

2. Knowledge institutes
Do not underestimate the ancestral knowledge of food, in them there is a
great knowledge that can be studied and even help with strategies for their
improvement

3. Local businesses/SME’s
Support the marketing and dissemination of not only food, but also of all the
groups and people that make these actions possible in the locality,
encourage leadership

4. Big corporates
Support small entrepreneurs who have the will to enter this world of urban
agriculture, creating a network of communication and progress

5. Societal organisations/NGO’s
Link and disseminate these activities by the community and leaders, seek
support to encourage training and research

6. Citizens/ Neighboorhood organisations

Believe more in the local, support what is ours, have a sense of belonging
and an appropriation for the land and what we receive from it
10. Role of inclusive leadership in the transformation processes
1. What is the role of leadership and inclusive leadership?
 2. How do you involve/empower local communities and entrepreneurs in
your Food Vision of your district?

Reference to report about Usme y Ciudad Bolivar

 https://designblog.uniandes.edu.co/blogs/dise3136/2011-2-proyectos-finales/soberania-
alimentaria-usme/
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCElQcmxyG8
 https://www.eltiempo.com/bogota/campesinos-de-bogota-pueden-abastecer-de-alimentos-a-
la-ciudad-265610#:~:text=Lechuga%2C%20fresa%2C%20cebolla%2C%20lulo,en%20la
%20localidad%20de%20Usme.
 https://desarrolloeconomico.gov.co/los-mercados-campesinos-moviles-regresan-este-16-y-17-
de-marzo-a-ciudad-bolivar-sumapaz-y-usme/#:~:text=Localidad%20Usme%3A%20Plaza
%20Fundacional%20Usme,Vereda%20Margarita%20Sector%20El%20Campamento.
 https://www.facebook.com/alcaldialocalde.usme/videos/proceso-de-cultivos-en-usme/
863445307893100/
 https://colombiavisible.com/en-bogota-esta-red-de-campesinos-conserva-las-tradiciones-
rurales-de-usme/
 https://colombiavisible.com/huertas-comunitarias-en-la-bogota-rural-la-otra-cara-de-ciudad-
bolivar/
 https://colombiavisible.com/tag/usme/
 tesis UExternado (conclusiones pag 114 a 116, anexos 2 y 6)
https://bdigital.uexternado.edu.co/server/api/core/bitstreams/edb9cb06-d5ef-4605-8e73-
a665abd34587/content
 http://www.usme.gov.co/milocalidad/alcaldia-local-promueve-mercados-campesino-usme red
de huertas
 red de granjas usme https://conexionbio.jbb.gov.co/agroturismo-la-cara-que-la-localidad-de-
usme-quiere-mostrar/
 respuesta a riesgos POT, zona de reserva campesina https://www.usme.com.co/el-potencial-de-
las-zonas-rurales-de-bogota/
 Mercado de zona central para zona rural Usme https://bogota.gov.co/mi-ciudad/desarrollo-
economico/mercados-campesinos-moviles-en-la-localidad-de-usme-17-de-marzo-2023
 https://repository.javeriana.edu.co/bitstream/handle/10554/43400/Trabajo%20de%20grado
%20Tatiana%20Jaramillo%201.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

 contexto Usme https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usme
 Perdida de cultura campesina
https://www.utadeo.edu.co/es/articulo/crossmedialab/277626/usme-y-fontibon-dos-
localidades-que-extranan-su-pasado
 cultura del trueque de alimentos en usme https://www.youtube.com/watch?
app=desktop&v=2hEi-H5jv_U
 huertas urbanas ciudad bolivar https://caracol.com.co/2022/10/09/huertas-organicas-en-
ciudad-bolivar-trabajo-por-la-seguridad-alimentaria/
 onexto Ciudad Bolivar https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Bol%C3%ADvar_(Bogot%C3%A1)
 2022 poyo a campesinos de cuidad bolivar con semillas
https://www.uaesp.gov.co/noticias/continuamos-apoyando-los-campesinos-y-campesinas-
mochuelo-alto-ciudad-bolivar
 2018, desarticulacion de intervenciones institucionales con las dinamcas de campesinos de
ciudad bolivar tesis https://bdigital.uexternado.edu.co/server/api/core/bitstreams/84635c36-
08a2-4ff4-8d44-5b06ddc47c26/content
 tunjuelo 2020, https://cider.uniandes.edu.co/es/noticia/recuperacion-vida-sur-tunjuelo-junio-
20