Juan Fernando Lucio, director of the PASO Colombia program, talks with Lucie Kneip in the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center's series, "Voices of Impact: Conversations with Colombian Leaders and Change Agents."
Following eight years of collaboration with peace-building communities to co-create and develop rural development and peace-building projects, One Earth Future, through the PASO Colombia program, introduces a new approach to financing projects in the territories.
Since 2021, this project generates opportunities for socio-economic inclusion and employment for the vulnerable local population and Venezuelan migrants.
The Colombian Cacao and Chocolate Salon hosted the 'Binational Dialogue: Cocoa and Chocolate on the Colombian-Venezuelan Border for Employment, Peace, and Development,' which was supported by PASO and attended by 32 representatives from eight cocoa-related organizations in Venezuela and Colombia.
The Mayor's Office of San José del Guaviare awarded a recognition to Flor Alba Quevedo, as representative of the cooperative COOMFASOL, for her outstanding work in support of the campesino’s economy in the region.
At the event "ARAUCA - Land of Cocoa, Land of Peace", within the framework of the Chocoshow 2023 fair, the cocoa farmers of Arauca, FEDECACAO and PASO Colombia signed a commitment for a cocoa sector at the service of the care of life and territorial peace.
We share the article from the digital media Área Cúcuta about the exhibition "Community Reincorporation", organized by ARN and PASO Colombia at the Mayor's Office of Cúcuta, as part of the commemoration of the seventh anniversary of the signing of the Final Peace Agreement.
Agency for Reincorporation and Normalization (ARN)
The Agency for Reincorporation and Normalization (ARN) accompanies the fourth tour of the Catatumbo Peace Network, led by PASO Colombia. Associations of peace signatories and campesino communities lead biofactory projects within the framework of this Network, which has the support of key partners in...
Accompanied by peace signatories, campesino families, and allied institutions, the tour was successful in learning about the progress of the Catatumbo Peace Network from the field.
Through the farmers market at Expoguaviare, participants of the Peace Network highlighted their progress in collaborative work for agricultural production.
In the municipality of Saravena, this ERA was created to strengthen collaboration between the migrant and vulnerable population of the border, through training, agricultural activities, and food for children.
Learn about the story of Flor Quevedo, a participant in the Guaviare Peace Network, who, by marketing agricultural products from families that have moved away from growing coca, is working to strengthen family ties and rural economies.
The Kroc Institute of the University of Notre Dame has highlighted as a good practice the collaborative work model between farmers and peace signatories in the Catatumbo Peace Network, led by PASO.
Juan Fernando Lucio, director of PASO, published an article in IntechOpen with his reflections on the reincorporation perspective adopted in the Havana Agreement (2016), and introduces the model developed by PASO to enhance collective economic reincorporation. Lucio offers lessons learned that could...
18 ex-combatants, belonging to the COOMULNES multi-active cooperative, sealed their commercial partnership with the company Café Costal Campesino last Thursday, May 18 in Bogotá, which will allow them to export a ton of monthly parchment coffee to Spain.
Victims of the conflict and ex-combatants launched their partnership with Café Costal Campesino, a brand with which they hope to export more than 100 tons of coffee.
