The Life of the Chagra: Traditional Knowledge and Local Practices for the Adaptation to Climate Change is a compilation of texts related with the agricultural world in the Colombian Amazon. It is the result of a local research process that took place in the project If the climate changes, you should change too, which aimed the strengthening of local practices for adaptation to climate change and well being of communities.

The indigenous researchers Hernando Castro and Iris Andoque compiled the multiple visions of the chagra, from a male standpoint (responsible of the maloca and the balance between communities and nature) and from a female perspective (responsible of seed management in the chagra and of securing cultivated products to the community). In this document the agricultural knowledge of the community El Guacamayo related to: different types of soils, landscape units, cultivated diversity, sowing techniques, seasonal changes and local practices developed for climate change adaptation are presented. The result underlines the pertinence and functionality of traditional knowledge in the understanding of climate change and the adaptation to this phenomenon.