If you want to reach the headquarters of the La Asociaci\u00f3n de Productores de Cacao - ASPROCAT (Association of Cocoa Producers) you must depart from San Andr\u00e9s de Tumaco, travel over 20 kilometers along the road towards Pasto and arrive at the village of Inguap\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The unassuming entrance is located on one side of this road and leads to one of the most significant cocoa production centers in the region. It happens to be responsible for supplying both national and international markets with cocoa of the highest caliber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leidy is a professional in Finance and International Relations with a specialization in Development Projects from the School of Public Administration (ESAP, by its Spanish acronym) and is currently serving as a production counselor at the Agency for Reincorporation and Normalization in Nari\u00f1o, Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visible Pathways<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Her involvement in the master\u2019s program in Management and Development Practice stemmed from a call for applicants published by Manos Visibles and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with the support of La Universidad of Los Andes who hosted the program over the course of a two-year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"The cocoa cultivating process is deeply engrained in my family lineage. It has been a part of us since my childhood; I grew up watching my grandfather sow, harvest, and trade cocoa in Tumaco, a region that produces some of the world's finest cocoa. It's currently one of the most income-generating agricultural chains in the area,\u201d Leidy Fernanda intimated during our visit to the main offices of ASPROCAT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A master\u2019s-degree holder in Management and Development Practice, Leidy explains that \u201cthis is one of the most comprehensive processing centers we have in the region. It has a clonal garden spanning approximately three acres where various genetic materials are planted. We undertake research processes that encompass resistance to diseases, increased production, compatibility with regional soils, and academic activities that are conducted by universities like La Universidad Nacional, La Universidad Antonio Nari\u00f1o and SENA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Education for Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For Leidy Ortega, being part of this master's program has been incredibly meaningful as \u201cit has allowed me to clearly identify the stakeholders involved in this process. I cannot understate how important this is to one of Tumaco's most important agricultural federations. Today, it has become a pivotal transformational process for the region and a strategy to address social issues such as poverty, violence, illicit crop substitution, gender and social inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese academic opportunities undoubtedly provide women with new avenues for growth within their careers, especially those from agricultural families. It facilitates the development of entrepreneurship and projects focused on productivity. I wholeheartedly encourage them to participate and take advantage of these programs as they will be instrumental in propelling these women towards the achievement of their own dreams and those of their families. And of course, they will support the economic dynamics of their territories,\u201d Leidy Fernanda concluded.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Para llegar a la sede de la Asociaci\u00f3n de Productores de Cacao, Asprocat, hay que salir de Tumaco, recorrer 20 km v\u00eda a Pasto y llegar a la vereda Inguap\u00ed Para llegar a la sede de la Asociaci\u00f3n de Productores de Cacao, Asprocat, hay que salir de San Andr\u00e9s de Tumaco, recorrer m\u00e1s de 20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias","tag-noticias-columna"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manosvisibles.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}