Indigenous communities have Caucana systems connotan an organization to establish a community-based order and social control, which is reflected in their productive systems arising from collective enterprises, through agro ecological production, under the concept of productive chains, food autonomy, systems financing alternative forms of local and external marketing, staff training itself, local research, administrative, management and productive planeacion, in lines such as tourism, specialty coffee, fruit, beekeeping, medicinal and aromatic plants, quinoa, amaranth, timber, fique, milk, among others, under a concept of participation, local governance, environmental sustainability, gender and generational equity and whose purpose is to strengthen its endogenous development and fair participation in global markets.
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Ethnic diversity, ethnic minorities, open markets, technological development, dependence or interdependence, economical and production relationships, ways of social organization, self-development processes, agro-ecologic production, productive chains, foo