Farmers Land Mapping: A Public Policy Document to Solve Local Problems
The farmer’s land map can be considered an instrument of public policy to solve specific problems, since local populations have a detailed knowledge of their lands. Such knowledge can be systematized using the procedure known as land cartography, the method for which implies considering the social structure of the towns, and the result is that the geographic knowledge stored in the minds of the informants is turned into maps, graphs or written documents that can be used to carry out an analysis of the communal territory, with the possibility of driving actions in terms of public policy. From this viewpoint, participation of the locals is necessary to solve social inequalities and economic and environmental imbalances.
