Calendar of water wisdom of the Andean communities Laphia and Totora
The Research and Training Program in Agroecology, promoted by the alliance between CLACSO and McKnight, has managed to implement a regional project that intersected research with agroecological training and the participation of local peasant and indigenous communities in the high mountain regions of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia (more than 2.500 meters above sea level).
One of the achievements of this project was the intellectual and creative output of Roxana Villegas (Bolivia), a researcher and participant in the CLACSO-McKnight Program, who carried out the research. "Intergenerational knowledge of water in food production", creating a calendar on the water cycle based on the peasant knowledge of the communities of Laphia and Totora.
Congratulations to Roxana Villegas, the McKnight Foundation team, the Peruvian graphic design group Kipu Visual (Huancayo), and Elisa Canziani of CONDESAN for their support in this process. The calendar is a tool that brings us closer to understanding the climate, traditional knowledge about the water cycle, and the diverse realities of our countries and territories. It will soon be published in the second book we will be producing through the Program.
We want to share this information, which promotes and preserves traditional knowledge and languages, with a wide audience, in different formats, appropriate for different audiences and ages.
We hope you appreciate them and, above all, use them, either as educational and awareness-raising resources and also in play spaces where the calendar can be colored in its Quechua and Spanish versions.
These materials can also be found at:
Calendar in color, in Spanish:
Calendar in color, in Quechua:
https://andescdp.org/sites/default/files/docuemntos_relevantes/CALENDARIO%20QUECHUA%20FINAL.png
Coloring calendar, in Spanish:
Coloring calendar, in Quechua:
Colorful and animated calendar: [to access]
All versions are here:
https://andescdp.org/recursos-tabs/22
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