Colombia

Diego Alejandro
Salinas Velandia

food security Participatory approaches plant breding seeds potato

Biography

Agricultural engineer with a master's degree in interdisciplinary studies on development. He has experience in formulating, managing, and executing participatory research projects related to food security and sustainable local economic development. He has participated in projects with Afro-descendant, indigenous, and farmers communities, aiming to contribute to their productive development through the establishment of diverse orchars. This orchards focused on the exchange and use of seeds from species of the local food culture, with seeds of commercial crops and high nutritional potential used by AGROSAVIA. He has collaborated with interdisciplinary and interinstitutional actors in the agricultural sector, as well as with civil society. In his work, he has employed qualitative and participatory approaches, such as Participatory Rural Appraisal, information analysis, and technological surveillance.