CAJAMARCA

SIEMBRA accompanies the Peasant Environmental Committee of Cajamarca and Anaime in the territorial defense against the implementation of the large-scale gold mining project “La Colosa”, the expansion of the Hass avocado monoculture and against infrastructure projects that impact the peasant life of the municipality. To this end, SIEMBRA works to guarantee the rights of peasant communities, being a territory with an agrarian social and economic vocation. Within these rights, SIEMBRA works especially to guarantee the participation of the communities in the processes of consultation and viability of mining projects, which includes respect for the decisions that, of a binding nature, were taken by the community in the popular consultation held on March 26, 2017, through which mining was prohibited in the municipality.

Likewise, SIEMBRA works on actions to highlight the irregularities in the environmental and administrative procedures related to the mining project, challenging the mining concessions in force in the municipality. Within this process, SIEMBRA is articulated with the territorial defense organizations that are part of the National Environmental Movement. This process is located in the municipality of Cajamarca in the department of Tolima.