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Observatorio Latinoamericano de Salud.FIGURE No 4 DETECTED HEALTH PROBLEMS WORKERS TWO FARMS, 2003 n=160(ECOHEALTH PROJECT CEAS/CIID)workshops, the possibilities of an intercultural, transdisciplinaryand participative construction of knowledge,rooted in an analysis of the power structure thatconditions management, work with flowers, and communitylife. The central idea has been to perform research,with multiple subjects of knowledge and totriangulate the knowledge and instruments of academicand communitarian groups.Once this first research phase is concluded, thenext phase of intervention and incidence will be undertaken.Thus far, the project has constructed valuabletools from the perspective of communities’ interest: amost relevant geo-codified database, with characterizationand knowledge on impacts of flower productionupon workers, communities, hydric systems and soils; asolid methodology for the sampling and discriminationof distinct contaminating productive sources; the validationof test modules to study the impact on humanhealth and to demonstrate that conventional acetylcholinesteraseexams are insufficient and tend to veil abroader chronic low intensity pathology, and to evaluatethe effects on school and pre-school health; advancementsin the implementation of community bioessaylaboratories; CDROM software for workers’ health clinicalmanagement and monitoring in farms; a rigoroussystem of verification (checking list) for the FLP program;the commencement of a campaign within theUnited States to foster support of flower consumersto put pressure for fair and ecological flowers.All this effort, must be projected along the phaseof incidence in the next years, to fortify the organization,awareness and advocacy of communities; the77