Huerto Orgánico Lak'a Uta (Cotahuma, La Paz, Bolivia)

A resident-run urban garden in the Cotahuma district of La Paz, described as the first of its kind in Bolivia. Forty families have grown organic produce on a steep site at 3,600 m. The garden is both a source of food and a place of learning: it has an ecological trail and is used to teach food security. Fundación Alternativas, which runs it, uses the site as the base for public courses in urban agriculture. Bolivian entries in this database have so far centred on the solar greenhouses (carpas solares) of El Alto; this is a shared garden under quite different conditions, on a high-altitude slope.

Forty families grow organic vegetables together in what is described as Bolivia's first neighbourhood urban garden. On a steep site at 3,600 m altitude, six years in, the households have shown that they can supply their own vegetables. Fundación Alternativas runs theory-and-practice courses in urban agriculture at the garden, covering what is needed to start a first plot.

Run by the NGO Fundación Alternativas together with the resident group. The same foundation pushed for Municipal Law 105/2014 on food security, the first of its kind in the country, so that running the garden and building the policy sit on a continuum.

After six years, forty households have demonstrated that they can eat vegetables they grow themselves. As the venue for public courses, the garden also opens the way in for other residents across the city.

Web articles and features that cover this case.

• ArticleLak'a Uta: descubre el sendero ecológico en el primer huerto urbano de La Paz y aprende sobre seguridad alimentaria — La Región ↗laregion.bo
• ArticleVecinos muestran que es posible tener huertos urbanos incluso a 3.600 metros de altura — La Región ↗laregion.bo

This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.

• OfficialAgricultura Urbana — Fundación Alternativas ↗alternativascc.org