A TRANSDISCIPLINARY LOOK AT INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT FROM THE UNION OF ORGANIZED PEASANTS OF SAN DIONISIO.

Abstract

How is the associativity among farmers influencing the processes of personal healing in rural families? Who are the future farmers in the Cálico River sub-basin? What is the backpack that the peasants are transferring to their sons and daughters? Since January 2013, a group of teachers, from the multidisciplinary faculty of Matagalpa, and the organized peasants of the Cálico River sub-basin are generating a process of reflection that answers these questions and produces transformations in families and their pieces of ground that allow for a internal development more friendly for these protagonists. From a participatory action research and in permanent dialogue with the needs of productive transformation of the pieces of ground to adapt to climate change and improve the livelihoods of families the matrix of needs and satisfactions was used, proposed by Max-Neef, Elizalde and Hopenhayn, to generate a community dialogue about the deficiencies and potentialities that were visualized from the families. They found the need to work a community-based didactic and founded on experiences to face the technological and scientific challenges; rethink about the errors of institutionalization to recover the balance between the gremial vision and the sufficiency of the organizational services; and finally the intergenerational and intra-community communication to face the challenges of equity, relief and organizational conflictuality. The social sustainability of the peasant organization will depend on how these challenges of organizational, community, family and personal healing from memory are faced.