El monocultivo de la caña de azúcar en el valle geográfico del río Cauca (Valle del Cauca, Colombia): un enclave que desnaturaliza la vida ecosistémica

Abstract

The author takes a historical tour of the process of domination and domestication of nature, which served the purposes of the sugar cane agro-industry installed in the Valle del Cauca and extended its domains to the geographical Valley of the Cauca River (Colombia). A critical reading is assumed by the author from a political ecology point of view and from that field proposes to call the agroecosystem of sugarcane an Artificial Denaturing Enclave (EAD). With this category, a reflexive and critical exercise is presented through which the discourse used daily to validate the planting of sugarcane and the logic behind the monoculture of said grass are confronted. It is an article of reflection, anchored in the disquisitions of Political Ecology, in the search to find consensus and provoke discussions not only around the new nominative category for the cultivation of sugarcane, but on sustainability, removed, of course, from any logic of planting, due to the effects and socio-environmental conflicts that have been provoked by this crop and its industrialized practices