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Inga and Camëntsá indigenous
agroforestry systems in
Colombia as suppliers of
provisioning, regulating and
cultural ecosystem services
The identification of the agroforestry systems of the the only system they rely on, and 20 families have two
Camëntsá and Inga communities is of vital importance home gardens on the farm. The high number of people
for further valuation of ecosystem services. The present with home gardens explains why, despite its small size
enquiry was based on a quantitative research strategy and (from 120 m to 3 ha), it occupies relevant land coverage
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a cross-sectional research design. In order to identify the of 69 ha, making it the second largest system. Food,
indigenous agrarian systems and the whole population, natural medicines, fuel, and fiber are the prevailing final
Vandreé Julián Palacios Bucheli , a census was conducted in five villages of the Sibundoy services obtained from the agroforestry system of the
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Wolfgang Bokelmann 2 Valley, Colombia. The unit of analysis was the indigenous Camëntsá and Inga communities. The provision of these
1 Humboldt University of Berlin, Agricultural farm; therefore, every household was visited and asked goods lets the communities meet some basic needs of
Economic Program, Germany; Universidad de about their agrarian systems, land tenure, and economic self-consumption; additionally, the households generate
Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.A activities. One hundred and forty-five households were income from the production surplus sales. The market
found dwelling in the assessed territory. Three types of and subsistence scheme of the agroforestry systems
2 Humboldt University of Berlin, Agricultural agroforestry systems were found: silvopastoral covering increases the possibilities for accomplishing well-being.
Economic Program, Germany the largest area (59.5%), agrosilvopastoral comprised Other ecosystem services involved within the agroforestry
of home gardens (21%), and agrisilvicultural (9.8%) systems are regulating and cultural. Regulating services
*e-mail: [email protected] involving the market-oriented crops growing under are related to the fluctuations in levels of soil loss,
Key-words: Aesthetic landscapes; carbon woody perennial species. In addition to agroforestry, habitat for wildlife, crop protection through formation of
sequestration; food; home garden; silvopastoral. some households (9.7%) own lands on the upper microclimate, and carbon sequestration. Cultural heritage
surroundings, covered by natural vegetation. Out of the and aesthetic landscapes are the final cultural services
Sponsoring institutions: Erasmus Mundus. 145 families found, 123 make use of the home garden involved in the agroforestry systems.
on the farm. For 40 households, the home garden is
