Given the risk of loss of cultural identity of the Embera indigenous community, settled in the municipality of Tierralta, who due to violence was evicted fromtheir ancestral territory inCauca, has reduced production for self-consumption by dedicating themselves to the cultivation of corn. In order to strengthen food sovereignty, ethnic empowerment and leadership of local actors, contributing to peace and building social fabric under the logical framework methodology, this project was designed, implemented and evaluated.

In the formulation, the Sequential Transformative Design “DITRAS” was used for the collection and analysis of the information and under the mixed method of Participatory Action Research, an integral knowledge of the Embera indigenous community was achieved, obtaining alternative solutions to the problems encountered. The effect of the community empowerment process was interpreted and evaluated with the application of a monitoring tool, Abundance Evaluation (EvA), according to the degree ofsystemic balance.

As a result, training processes were developed as a strategy to strengthen the values and talents of indigenous families, generate cultural and territorial roots and identity, articulate the social with the organizational, the environmental with the productive, the agroecological with the economic, cultural and political as part of sustainable rural development.