Abstract

GUTIERREZ ALVAREZ, Néstor; ARROYO DE LA OSSA, Miryam  and  CARRASCO AQUINO, Roque Juan. Effects of climate change: an analysis in the Wayuu territory in the north of La Guajira, Colombia. Rev. Mex. Cienc. Agríc [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.5, pp.893-904.  Epub Oct 10, 2022. ISSN 2007-0934.  https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v13i5.3233.

Climate change is a phenomenon that causes intense environmental changes that modify the natural conditions in the territories, which affects the Wayuu indigenous people in the Alta Guajira region in the municipality of Uribia, where prolonged droughts put the ethnic group at risk, added to the institutional non-observance and the absence of adaptive measures according to the ways of life of the Wayuu people. It was sought to interpret the effects of climate change in the Wayuu territory, through a participatory process of environmental education in the community of Guerrero in northern Colombia, articulating the ancestral knowledge of the uses and customs regarding water with measures of adaptation to climate change for the exploitation and sustainable use of water resources. The study was carried out from May 2019 to May 2020, it followed the ethnographic method, semi-structured interviews were applied and spaces for the exchange of knowledge were developed through meetings with the community. The problems around water and the identification of risk scenarios to climate change were diagnosed, adaptation measures to climate change according to the cultural context were proposed, with the participation of the Wayuu in their forms and times.

Keywords : adaptation; climate change; territory; Wayuu.

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