Abstract
This chapter focuses on the relationships between human communities and plants to understand the socio-ecological history of Caquetá and the current struggles to overcome the consequences of war. Drawing on ethnographic data under a participatory action research approach, we offer a reconstruction of the history of Caquetá through three kinds of plants (caucho, Amazonian fruits, and coca) that have determined the social, political, and economic configuration of the territory. We state that plants play a central role in healing the physical, emotional, and community wounds of a war that extends beyond the 52 years of armed conflict between the Colombian government, paramilitary groups, and the FARC-EP guerrilla. Medicinal plants, in particular, allow for a new understanding of the relationships between communities and nature within the context of peace initiatives and might help understand human and nature rights as interdependent and indivisible.
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