Guisela Carolina Camacho Mejia

• Camacho Mejia, Guisela Carolina (2023). Tough tradeoffs: Self-managed eradication of cannabis crops in the indigenous community of Niebla in Cauca. Vis sammendrag

  This presentation aimed to uncover these tradeoffs against the simplified narratives that guide eradication and substitution strategies. In Tierra de Niebla, the “eradication solution” narrative glassed over the socio-economic mechanisms behind the boom of marihuana in 2021 but also coca cultivation in the 80s and poppies seeds in the 90s. Strategies need a shift in focus from counting hectares of coca bushes, cannabis crops and opium poppies to addressing the motivation, needs and rights of families that grow and don’t grow crops for illicit use.

• Camacho Mejia, Guisela Carolina (2023). Cooking paradoxes: Cannabis cultivation and Thul Nasa in the indigenous community of Tierra de Niebla in Cauca, Colombia. Vis sammendrag

  The SEGURA project aims to understand the relationship between food security and conflict by studying the mechanisms, dynamics, dependencies, and correlations between the two. At one end of this relationship is food security. According to the FAO (1996), food security exists when households have regular access to safe, sufficient, and culturally appropriate food. Households can access food through many mechanisms, such as the market, state social programs, or subsistence farming. In this presentation, I focus on this latter mechanism, the production of food items for self-consumption. On the other end of the relationship, there is conflict. Many causes have contributed to the extension and degradation of the armed conflict in Colombia, among them drug trafficking and its counterpart, the "war on drugs." In this war, smallholder farmers who grow crops for illegal use have suffered the most because they find themselves in the crossfire between the state and the insurgent groups, actors who follow a strategy of "anything goes". These families are usually trapped in poverty, abandonment, marginality, and weak institutional presence. This presentation focuses on them and aims to echo their experiences and perceptions. I address the relationship between subsistence crops and crops of illegal use using a case study, that of the indigenous community of Tierra de Niebla in the department of Cauca. Tierra de Niebla is located north of the Cauca department and has a majority Nasa population. This community is the ideal place to study this relationship because, since 2020, it has experienced a territorial and social emergency triggered, in part, by the decision of approximately 600 families to grow cannabis on communal land. Moreover, Tierra de Niebla has a solid agricultural profile since at least 86% of households grow food for self-consumption in the Thul Nasa.

• Camacho Mejia, Guisela Carolina (2022). Minga Adentro.
• Camacho Mejia, Guisela Carolina (2022). Duras disyuntivas: Explorando las interrelaciones entre la seguridad alimentaria y los cultivos de marihuana en Niebla, Cauca, Colombia.
• Camacho Mejia, Guisela Carolina (2022). Sembrando paradojas: Entendiendo las interrelaciones entre cultivos de marihuana y la producción de alimentos en el territorio indígena de Jambaló. Vis sammendrag

  La presente ponencia busca contribuir al debate sobre la vinculación entre seguridad alimentaria y conflicto mediante el análisis de los mecanismos y dinámicas que informan la relación entre cultivos de marihuana y producción de alimentos en el territorio indígena de Jambaló. La ponencia se basa en un estudio etnográfico realizado por la autora en la comunidad de Jambaló por cerca de seis meses, el cual aún está en desarrollo. Los métodos usados son principalmente cualitativos y abarcan entrevistas personales, visitas a familias, observación participativa y análisis documental. La ponencia se centra en la huerta Nasa thul como pilar de la producción de alimentos de las familias de Jambaló y la situa durante la emergencia territorial que vive Jambaló desde octubre 2021 por la decisión de aproximadamente 600 familias de cultivar marihuana dentro del territorio comunal. En este contexto, la ponencia analiza los factores materiales, culturales y políticos que median la relación entre la huerta Nasa thul y los cultivos de marihuana en el territorio indígena de Jambaló y ofrece algunas recomendaciones para la formulación e implementación de políticas de sustitución de cultivos de uso ilícito.

• Camacho Mejia, Guisela Carolina (2021). Qué hay para comer hoy? Sammenhengen mellom kjønn og matsikkerhet i Colombia. LatinAmerika Gruppe (LAG). s. 10–12.
• Camacho Mejia, Guisela Carolina (2021). Culture and Food: Eating in Cauca. I Dulsrud, Arne & Kuraj, Sabina (Red.), Food for Security. Mapping mechanisms of food security and conflict in Cauca, Colombia. Forbruksforskningsinstituttet SIFO, OsloMet. ISSN 978-82-7063-527-6. s. 88–100.
• Camacho Mejia, Guisela Carolina (2022). Reporte socio-económico del territorio indígena de Jambaló en Cauca, Colombia. Kwe Kwe Nej We’sx del Territorio Indigena de Jambalo.

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