Colombia - Lack of Viable Crop Alternatives |
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As land confiscation and upheaval resulting from years of conflict have displaced Colombians from their lands, farmers have relocated to increasingly remote - and less fertile - regions. Even if the soils allowed robust legal crop production, the poor infrastructure of these regions would make it difficult to transport goods to market.
As a result, many small-scale farmers in these remote regions have resorted to coca cultivation. Despite alternative development policies designed to provide these peasants with legal crops, coca cultivation persists, in large part because alternative crops simply lack the economic viability that coca allows.
Contributed by Arielle Eirienne, Power.of.Purpose! Communications
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ECOFONDO, a Colombian non-governmental organization, works toward environmentally friendly, sustainable agricultural production. Preliminary reports indicate that ECOFONDO programs have been successf...
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Huey helicopters would be best way for rural farmers to get thier products to large city markets. Peasants for fuel only and they would plant a new crop call ed golden seal it goes for 35 a dried pd ...
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Part of the reason that crop alternatives to date have suffered in terms of viability is that the lack of solid roads linking rural areas to markets has prevented the large-scale sale of any licit cro...
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When life in the country turns up dead end after dead end, it might be useful for policymakers to provide Colombian peasants with something to move toward. Development of economic opportunities in to...
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"Alternative development" is a term en vogue these days, and the U.S. government has regarded it as a component of the overall drug eradication strategy for Colombia. Nevertheless, when the goal is p...
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Commentson Colombia - Lack of Viable Crop Alternatives |
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From what I'm seeing is the only crop in that country is golden seal a plant that grows wild in america and is like 27 dollors a dried pound when its picked and dried usually used for lung ailments an...
- Kevin Popp
Hemp fields for the 50,000 hemp products that might be made (again)
in order to save the planet.
Then shift to marijuana after it becomes legalized in more countries.
Canada seems set to lega...
- James Butler
The solution is one that lays around the corner.
and that is legalise cocaine as it is used all over the world a people like it as other drugs and alcohol !!
When something is legalised it will get ...
- ton popelier
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