Environmental Responsibility Goes Hand in Hand with Social Responsibility

Abstract

Written by the Administrative and Financial Deputy Director of CORNARE, this article presents a diagnosis of poverty and malnutrition in eastern Antioquia within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals, documenting that the region has poverty and child-malnutrition rates above the departmental average. The author presents two CORNARE programs: Raíces, a rural education model integrating school gardens and reforestation into 350 productive pedagogical projects, and Cosechando Vida, aimed at recovering traditional family gardens for 8,700 peasant families, with emphasis on female heads of household and displaced populations. The text argues that environmental sustainability cannot be achieved while keeping half of humanity in poverty.