Living Libraries, in the beginning was the Seed

a proposal for the strengthening of Peasant, Family and Community Agriculture (ACFC) in Colombia

Abstract

This article is derived from the postdoctoral research project Harvesting the word to feed life: reading education and its connection with family, peasant and community economies (EFCC): a look through cultural contexts (libraries) and academic contexts (schools), and its purpose is to present a series of ideas that, through LEO, intangible cultural heritage and biocultural heritage and peasant economies, energize the strategy: farmer's seeds, proposed in article 9 No 000464 of 2017. To do this, Through the documentary review method, the place of the library, and the seed libraries, is contextualized around the economic and ecological functions proposed by librarianship. Next, the clearly political links between Peasant Intangible Cultural Heritage, biocultural heritage and bibliographic and documentary heritage in spaces such as seed libraries are analyzed. And finally, a series of ideas are proposed to give life to a reading education program that seeks to strengthen the ACFC policy, specifically exemplified through the farmer's seeds strategy and its link with the Intangible Peasant Cultural Heritage and the LEO taking existing experiences in the library field as references. The feminine direct pronoun and object are used to address people regardless of their gender or sex.