{"id":60136851,"date":"2026-06-05T16:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/?p=60136851"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:37:43","slug":"seeds-of-resistance-the-wayuu-response-to-climate-imbalance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/seeds-of-resistance-the-wayuu-response-to-climate-imbalance\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeds of resistance: the Wayuu response to climate imbalance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For Ronald Fuenmayor, a young Wayuu from the coastal territory of Paraguach\u00f3n in northern Colombia, dreams are an inseparable part of his spiritual relationship with nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDreams announce things that might happen to your family or those close to you,\u201d he recounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Wayuu worldview, dreams are in dialogue with the territory. The sea, plants, wind, or rain warn of illnesses, visitors, losses or climate shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen the sun has a large halo, it announces illness,\u201d Fuenmayor explains. He recalls how certain birds herald the arrival of a visitor or a death, and how intensely orange sunsets are interpreted as signs of grave events in the territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This knowledge has historically been passed down by grandparents and spiritual authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the climate crisis has altered these readings, Fuenmayor says. The territory the 30-year-old knew in his childhood is no longer the same. Droughts are longer, rains more unpredictable, and the sea has changed its behaviour. And the signs one reads in dreams are losing their clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adp0212\">demonstrate<\/a> that the climate crisis has modified historical environmental patterns, making rainy seasons unpredictable and affecting agriculture and community survival. It is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/newsroom\/story\/drought-or-flooding-are-no-match-for-this-climate-adapted-bean\/en\">profoundly impacting<\/a> Wayuu culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-great-uncertainty\">Great uncertainty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This transformation directly affects agriculture and the communities\u2019 ways of life. In many Wayuu communities, seed sowing has become a risk. Families prepare the land, investing seeds, time, and collective labour, but the rain no longer responds as it once did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSometimes it rains for a single day and then never rains again. The seed, the work, and the hectares sown are lost,\u201d Fuenmayor tells Dialogue Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elders, who could once interpret the weather by observing the moon, the clouds or the wind, now feel uncertainty. Fuenmayor says his father clings to his crops, though he recognises that \u201cit is no longer like before\u201d. Currently, the risk of losing a harvest is much higher than the chances of making a profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image aligncenter block--article-image block--article-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wayuu-man-woman_Cabo-de-la-Vela_Guajira_Colombia_Juan-David-Duarte_Presidencia-de-Colombia-Flickr-53006111390.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wayuu-man-woman_Cabo-de-la-Vela_Guajira_Colombia_Juan-David-Duarte_Presidencia-de-Colombia-Flickr-53006111390-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wayuu-man-woman_Cabo-de-la-Vela_Guajira_Colombia_Juan-David-Duarte_Presidencia-de-Colombia-Flickr-53006111390-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wayuu-man-woman_Cabo-de-la-Vela_Guajira_Colombia_Juan-David-Duarte_Presidencia-de-Colombia-Flickr-53006111390.jpg 2560w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 2560px\" alt=\"man and woman on beach\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">A Wayuu man and woman in Cabo de la Vela, La Guajira. The Wayuu people\u2019s relationship with nature is threatened by climate change (Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/197399771@N06\/53006111390\/in\/album-72177720309366457\/\">Juan David Duarte<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/197399771@N06\/\">Presidencia de Colombia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/mark\/1.0\/deed.en\">PDM<\/a>)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wayuu-man-woman_Cabo-de-la-Vela_Guajira_Colombia_Juan-David-Duarte_Presidencia-de-Colombia-Flickr-53006111390.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Water scarcity is another major concern. Obtaining water to supply homes, animals and crops involves travelling long distances. The <em>jag\u00fcey<\/em> \u2013 traditional handcrafted wells \u2013 are fundamental for community survival, though many dry up quickly due to extreme heat and the lack of constant rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything changes depending on whether there is water or not,\u201d says Fuenmayor. The impact is not only material; the absence of water affects the collective mood and spirituality. \u201cIt afflicts mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers; it afflicts the spirit,\u201d he says with sorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within Wayuu spirituality, the rain has its own name: <em>Juya<\/em>. Its arrival represents abundance, well-being and the renewal of life. When <em>Juya<\/em> visits the territory, \u201cthere is a party, there is a meeting; the spirit is happy\u201d, Fuenmayor says. But when the rain does not come, the community interprets it as an imbalance between the people and the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN has warned that climate change alters precipitation patterns and accelerates both droughts and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/es\/climatechange\/science\/climate-issues\/water\">water scarcity<\/a> in vulnerable territories. This phenomenon coincides with what Fuenmayor describes when speaking of unpredictable rains, loss of seeds and longer dry seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading the climate is also linked to the Wayuu calendar. Unlike the Western calendar, the most important cycle begins with <em>juyapu<\/em>, the great rainy season between August and November. Its presence marks the start of a new cycle of abundance: sowing, fishing, hunting and community activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond climate change, coastal communities face another growing problem: coastal erosion. Fuenmayor reports that in Ca\u00f1o Zagua, a Wayuu settlement on the northern peninsula of La Guajira, several homes have disappeared due to the advancing sea and the alteration of natural channels following human interventions years ago. \u201cThere are homes that collapsed, and others are cracking,\u201d he points out. According to community counts, at least five houses have already vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-cd-related-news alignright block--related-news loading\" data-post-id=\"60113541\"><div class=\"block--related-news__image\"><\/div><div class=\"block--related-news__content\"><span class=\"block--related-news__heading\">Recommended<\/span><span class=\"block--related-news__title\"><\/span><\/div><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidst a global climate crisis, the experience of the Wayuu people reveals that climate change does not only affect weather patterns \u2013 it transforms ways of feeling, interpreting, and inhabiting the world. Where dreams once announced the arrival of rain, uncertainty now reigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-in-search-of-solutions\">In search of solutions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet the memory of the elders persists, attempting to keep alive an ancestral reading of the territory that still has much to teach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Wayuunaiki, the language of the Wayuu, there are no exact words for \u201crubbish\u201d or \u201crecycling\u201d. The explanation lies in the ancestral practices of Wayuu grandmothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything had a use within the territory,\u201d explains Yenilin Lubo Bonivento, a young Wayuu woman. Fabrics were reused to make new items; tins were turned into household utensils; maize and cassava husks served as animal feed or compost for the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At talking circles attended by Lubo Bonivento, older women recalled how families once moved according to the rainy seasons and how knowledge of the climate allowed them to care for animals, sow crops and preserve seeds resistant to desert conditions. \u201cWe realised that we had already experienced the effects of climate change in the past, even though we didn\u2019t call it that,\u201d explains Lubo Bonivento. \u201cThe difference is that in the past, the seasons were more predictable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-pull-quote block--pull-quote\"><div class=\"block--pull-quote__wrapper\"><blockquote class=\"block--pull-quote__quote\">The diversity of our seeds also reflects the cultural and biological richness of our territory<\/blockquote><cite class=\"block--pull-quote__cite\">Yenilin Lubo Bonivento, a young Wayuu woman<\/cite><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It was there that two concerns began to connect: the loss of ancestral knowledge of the land and the disappearance of traditional seeds. Many older people noted that younger generations no longer recognised various wild species or knew when to harvest or sow them. \u201cOur seeds are the foundation of our food, medicine and spirituality,\u201d says Lubo Bonivento. \u201cThe diversity of our seeds also reflects the cultural and biological richness of our territory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tekia is another settlement in La Guajira. In 2024, its community began compiling oral histories of native seeds and sowing techniques from community elders. The result was the creation of an ecological and spiritual calendar documenting rainy seasons, harvest times, climatic signs, lunar cycles and seed-gathering periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building on this experience, the community began creating a nursery and community seed bank for native seeds historically adapted to the arid conditions of La Guajira. The initiative involves women, children, young people and the elderly in training programmes for the collection, storage and conservation of their own seeds. \u201cSowing and caring for our seeds is an act of resistance, resilience and love for the land,\u201d says Lubo Bonivento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These initiatives seek not only to store seeds, but also to preserve the knowledge necessary for those seeds to continue existing in the future. The community handbooks created in Tekia contain stories, practices and recommendations passed down by the elders: what signs herald a good harvest, which foods should not be eaten after sowing, or which behaviours can upset the balance of the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To strengthen these processes, communities have begun to work in coordination with Wayuu and non-Wayuu professionals from fields such as biology, agronomy, agroecology and environmental conservation. The aim is to combine scientific tools for seed conservation and reproduction with ancestral knowledge of the territory\u2019s climatic and spiritual cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/newsroom\/story\/drought-or-flooding-are-no-match-for-this-climate-adapted-bean\/es\">documented<\/a> how native seeds conserved by Indigenous peoples can be an important tool for tackling the climate crisis, given their resilience to extreme droughts and fragile ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cd-article-image aligncenter block--article-image block--article-image--article\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"block--article-image__column\"><div class=\"hide-expand block--article-image__image\"><img class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wayuu-women-meeting_Guajira_Colombia_Yelver-Flores-Wayuu-Epieyuu-20251004_164433.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wayuu-women-meeting_Guajira_Colombia_Yelver-Flores-Wayuu-Epieyuu-20251004_164433-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wayuu-women-meeting_Guajira_Colombia_Yelver-Flores-Wayuu-Epieyuu-20251004_164433-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wayuu-women-meeting_Guajira_Colombia_Yelver-Flores-Wayuu-Epieyuu-20251004_164433.jpg 2560w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 768px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, 2560px\" alt=\"four women seated outdoors\"\/><\/div><div class=\"block--article-image__content\"><div itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"block--article-image__caption\">Wayuu women sharing experiences at a meeting. The Wayuu are working with scientists to preserve their ancestral knowledge of the climate (Image: Yelver Florez Wayuu Epieyuu)<\/div><\/div><\/div><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wayuu-women-meeting_Guajira_Colombia_Yelver-Flores-Wayuu-Epieyuu-20251004_164433.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2 MB\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1707\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"\/><meta itemprop=\"author\"\/><meta itemprop=\"representativeOfPage\" content=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-blending-scientific-and-traditional-knowledge\">Blending scientific and traditional knowledge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowledge that for years was viewed as mere superstition now takes on new significance in the face of a climate crisis that is destabilising even scientific prediction models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst science speaks of altered hydrological cycles, desertification and loss of biodiversity, the Wayuu people speak of a territory that can no longer be read as it once was. In addition to community meetings and knowledge exchanges in Wayuunaiki, these conservation processes train young seed guardians and develop climate adaptation strategies designed by and for the Wayuu people. The goal is not only to protect crops but also to preserve the spiritual memory of the territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is, perhaps, one of the most pressing warnings coming from communities such as Paraguach\u00f3n and Tekia: the climate crisis is not only drying up the <em>jag\u00fceyes<\/em> or destroying the harvests. It is also severing an ancestral bond between people, seeds, dreams and the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the climate cycles of <em>Woumainkat<\/em> \u2013 \u201cour territory\u201d \u2013 continue to change, the Wayuu people endure through their words, their memories and their seeds. Because preserving a seed, in the middle of the desert, is also preserving a way of understanding life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In responding to climate change, Colombia\u2019s Wayuu are bringing together dreams and science <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50000897,"featured_media":60136896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[17827,50042205,555],"hashtags":[],"country":[50000025],"class_list":["post-60136851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate-adaptation","tag-culture","tag-indigenous-peoples","country-colombia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seeds of resistance: the Wayuu response to climate imbalance | 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