Representatives of eight community councils received the collective title granted by the National Land Agency (ANT), with which the legal security of their territories is formalized and protected, which totals 2,231 hectares of land inhabited by black communities in the departments of Cauca, Chocó, Guaviare and Putumayo.
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The presentation of titles took place within the framework of the Global Summit for Africa and its Diaspora, which took place this week in Cali, within the agenda prior to the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the Convention on Diversity. Biological.
The objective of the meeting, led by the vice president and minister of Equality and Equity, Francia Márquez, was promote the recognition of Afro-descendant Peoples as subjects of rights in the mechanisms, instruments and bodies of the Convention, as steps to overcome environmental, territorial and ethnic injustice.
At the close of the Summit, the vice president expressed that this recognition “It could make it easier for Afro peoples to have greater guarantees to implement biodiversity conservation actions.“.
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According to the National Land Agency, six out of every 10 peasant families in Colombia do not own the land they work.
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From the ANT, it was highlighted that the delivery of titles to Afro-descendant communities is “a territorial recognition that implies the care of life and the conservation of nature.”
Astolfo Aramburo Vivas, director of Ethnic Affairs of the entity, described the incident, for his part, as “an advance in the recognition of the culture and territories of Afro-descendant peoples, which benefits 7,562 people or 3,582 families, grouped in eight community councils in four departments.”
The community councils that received their collective title are: Black Communities of the Ovejas River Basin, with 14 hectares, and Black Communities of the La Toma Corregimiento, with 90 hectares, in Suárez, Cauca; Agua Blanca La Alsacia River Basin (36 hectares) in Buenos Aires, Cauca; Afro Caimanence and Nelson Mandela, in Mocoa, Putumayo, with 43 and 130 hectares, respectively.
Other councils benefiting from the titles were: Mayor of the Black Communities of the Upper-Lower Basin of the Vaupés River Nelson Mandela (Cocomanema) and Afro-Colombian Population of the Upper-Lower Basin of the Vaupés River Diego Luis Córdoba (Cocodiluco), with 137 and 169 hectares, respectively, in Miraflores, Guaviare.
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President Gustavo Petro and the director of the National Land Agency, Felipe Harman.
Finally, the Greater Council of Unguía Darién (Cocomada) in Unguía, Chocó, with 1,609 hectares of formalized land, completes the group of beneficiaries.
The presentation of titles was attended by representatives of the national Government, among whom were the Minister of the Environment, Susana Muhamad, the Chancellor, Luis Gilberto Murillo, and the director of the National Planning Department (DNP), Alexander López.
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