Rural development and social mobilization in rural areas of the Subwatershed of the Pance River (Cali, Colombia)

Abstract

In the subwatershed of Pance river (Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia), the community is concerned with local territorial planning. The objective of this article is to analyze the correlation between the territorial ordering model of Cali and the community organizational transformations which are emerging in Pance. It describes the socioeconomic and political context of the subwatershed, in a social and cultural characterization of its relations. Later, a theorical and conceptual approach is made to the main theories of development, and the main approaches to rural development is made. Its goal is to identifying the development model of Cali's ordering model. Finally, this article contributes with an in-depth of the relationship between the policies of local-municipal order and the new forms of organization and community mobilization.