How We Got Started

Our organization was founded in October 2017 as the Utuado Mutual Support Center, in response to the socio-environmental crisis caused by Hurricane Maria in the municipality of Utuado in Puerto Rico. Since then, we have been dedicated to supporting small farmers with work brigades, supplies, and educational workshops for various rural communities. However, in 2022, we made the collective decision that CAMU would change to become the Agroecological Collective for Massification and Unity due to a regional transition in which we decided to rearticulate our agroecological activism focused on a more trans-territorial line of work in the central-western region of Puerto Rico. Since then, our main objective has been to spread agroecology from a transdisciplinary, political, and emancipatory approach in order to strengthen food sovereignty, the social organizational fabric, and community autonomy in our territory.

Vision

The territorialization of a social and emancipatory agroecology in the central-western region of Puerto Rico

Mission

Facilitate agroecological and political training through transdisciplinary workshops and create support networks among small producers to strengthen the local organizational social fabric.

Meet the Collective

  • Jesef Reyes Morales

  • Gema Adrover

  • Paul Dill

  • Gloria Cordero

  • Natalia Hernandez

  • Yira Rodriguez

  • Ricardo Coronado

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  • Clara Rivera