Misiones will guarantee local supply and access to healthy food for the Guarani communities


Omar Olsson – Canal 12

In this way, the program will guarantee local supply and ensure the right to healthy, nutritious, sufficient and quality food; will promote the conservation and improvement of soils and natural resources.

With the new law sanctioned the Mbya Guaraní communities in the province will have active participation and will count on the exercise of the right to consultation, recognizing and respecting their agricultural practices and traditional productive activities.

In this context, the provincial deputy Omar Olsson said: “What we want is to give it a regulatory framework, it is the main objective and to promote this work in such a way that our brothers feel accompanied by the provincial government.”

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“We also try to ensure that agricultural production is oriented towards sustainable and healthy food. We seek to diversify with missionary agriculture and with the aboriginal communities the work that will be carried out with the 132 communities that we have in the province”, he added.

Objectives of the law

  • Promote and promote activities, practices and processes of production, marketing and consumption of healthy food in Guarani communities.
  • Provide assistance and advice for the handling, use and conservation of plant and animal species that are part of the culture.
  • Consolidate the work of rescuing and multiplying local biological diversity, revaluing the ancestral knowledge of the Guarani people and the transmission of their knowledge.
  • Strengthen cultural identity and recovery of good production practices.
  • Promote the breeding of animals for human consumption.
  • Promote the intergenerational transmission of indigenous knowledge and the exchange of knowledge for the cultivation, production and protection of original seeds.
  • Contribute to the protection of forests of high biological conservation value, strengthening management frameworks for the sustainable use of biodiversity.
  • Promote integrated production systems in Guarani communities in order to increase efficiency in the use of resources.
  • Promote the operation of community gardens for the production and supply of food.
  • The authority for the application will be the Secretary of State for Family Agriculture, together with the Ministry of Agriculture and Production and the Provincial Directorate of Guarani Affairs.
  • They will be in charge of drawing up a calendar of agricultural activities to establish species and planting and harvesting periods; put into operation different fish production systems and facilitate the acquisition of supplies and tools for the fulfillment of the objectives established by law.
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