The United Kingdom ambassador to Colombia, George Hodgson, stressed that there is a big interest in supporting this type of processes.
United Kingdom, as the guest country of honor at Biodiversity Week, together with the Ministry of Economic Development of Cali, He gave Citizens a thousand buckles prepared by chef Caleña Catalina Vélez.
The protagonist was The cheese of this knead, made 100% free of deforestation, protecting forests and the environment.
Pandebones cheese delivered to the caleños was achieved thanks to the Reat Ukcol, a British government project executed by WWF that accompanied small and medium producers For your practices to be an example of sustainable management: protect soils, take care of waters, regenerate nature and reconnect biodiversity.
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“100% deforestation free cheese that comes from Caquetá It refers to a dairy product whose production chain, that is, from the feeding of livestock to industrial transformation, what it will do is guarantee that it is not contributed to the logging of forestsfor example, the issue of milk comes from fed cows with pastures or supplies that are not linked to deforestation. The corn that was used is Creole, from various communities in Nariño, Cauca and Córdoba Native non -transgenic seed, “Catalina Vélez explained.
This gastronomic activity next to others, carried out on the river boulevard, has opted to preserve biodiversity around the world. The Ambassador of the British country in Colombia, George Hodgson, stressed that there is a great interest in supporting this type of financing processes.
“We have many opportunities in financing. We see that a country as rich as Colombia has a lot to share in the world. A nation like this with such representative natural assets can be opened with biodiversity bonds and is something we are supporting from the United Kingdom, ”he said.
Hodgson added that one of the great legacies of the World Biodiversity Summit COP16, held last year in the capital of Vallecaucana, was The consolidation of an international multidonant fund to receive contributions from different countries for the conservation of species and ecosystems at risk in territories such as Colombia.
“One of the great achievements of COP16 was the construction of an agreement where a mechanism to finance actions in favor of biodiversity in the world is established And here is the United Kingdom working with countries like Colombia, ”said the British ambassador.
A tradition with an environmental commitment
The Cali River Boulevard is the space where the stand of the United Kingdom delegation is located and there The traditional Caleña de Pandebono preparation will continue to be exposed, elaborated with this different touch, which results in a sustainable bucklingwhich has been the result of several agroecological processes promoted by the British government.
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“Cheese has the traceability that it is a product that reaches the table with environmental practices and has been made with sustainable processes”, Said the Secretary of Economic Development of Cali, Mabel Lara, who called on the caleños and visitors to enjoy the different spaces that have been enabled with samples and exhibitions during the Biodiversity Week.
These types of bets show how small and medium producers advance more efficient practices and processes for the protection of soils, the care of water and the regeneration of nature.
Source: Integrated information system
