Wild food collecting, hunting, and fishing are very minor activities. Livestock and agricultural produce are traded with neighboring Colombians. Such trade has increased in volume, and it appears that their neighbors take advantage of the Cagaba in these transactions. The Cagaba also engage in a number of craft activities, but the division of labor follows lines of sex rather than specialization. Both sexes share in agricultural production, while weaving, woodworking, making cordage, clothing manufacture, and toolmaking are male activities.
Women are responsible for cooking, collecting wild foods, and manufacturing nets and fans.
The nuclear family is the basic social and economic unit of Cagaba society. It is the most common household type, and the household functions as a property-owning, cooperative, economic unit. Kinship ties are reckoned bilaterally, but ownership and inheritance mainly follow male lines. Kinship terminology is of the Hawaiian type. Cagaba marriage ideals and practices are in conflict, if the Kogi are indicative of the group as a whole.