Asociacion Para el Desarrollo Campesino (ADC) was officially born in El Encano in the year 1980, motivated by the urgency of facing the natural, economic and socio-cultural devastation that the region and its inhabitants were experiencing. Today they are more than 3,500 people, belonging to 600 peasant and indigenous families who live in eight municipalities located in ecologically different areas of the department of Nariño, in the south west of Colombia.
Through the execution and implementation of plans, programs and projects of formation, advice and permanent accompaniment from the areas of Food Sovereignty and Conservation of Biodiversity, Heirs of the Planet, Organization and Management for Local Living and Information Systems and Communications, The mission of the ADC is to promote the construction of peasant social actors in the region, men, women, youth and children to overcome the minimum threshold of satisfaction for each of their fundamental needs; strengthening their self-dependence and permanently increasing harmony in the relationship with their natural, social, cultural, economic and political environments.
The ADC is a non-governmental entity, autonomous, positioned regionally and locally, with an impact on the participatory construction of public policies, as a contribution to the well-being of the rural communities of south-western Colombia, from a Human Scale Development perspective.
