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The new Alternative Rural School of Communication in Mutatá, Antioquia, opens a call for people who are currently developing a productive project in the COOFORTUNA, COOEMPRENDER cooperatives, or who belong to the community of San José de León. Registration open until December 31, 2020.

PASO Colombia has been awarded a USD $9,600 “Imagining Our Image” grant from the 2020 National Stimulus Program of the Ministry of Culture.

PASO Colombia announced “A Network for Peace and Security in Colombia,” a new partnership that aims to promote the inclusive rural development of campesinos economies that have been affected by conflict for several years.

The Institute of Research and Intervention for Peace of the Universidad del Valle and PASO Colombia have rescheduled the forum RURAL ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS (ERAs) AND ECONOMIC REINCORPORATION IN COLOMBIA for next Thursday, November 19. Join us from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (COT)

Virtual meeting on Alternative Rural Schools (ERA) and Economic Reincorporation in Colombia

A Virtual Farmers Market was created as a strategy to face COVID-19 crisis in Colombia countryside.

They will be leading a research team to conduct an evaluation of the new Rural Alternative Schools (ERA) that will be opening in Puerto Guzmán and its impact on ex-combatants and members of the surrounding communities that are in the process of substituting illegal crops. They will establish a basel...

By Marcel Arsenault, co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of One Earth Future, an incubator of peace programs around the world, including PASO Colombia. He is also a member of the Giving Pledge, and Founder and CEO of Real Capital Solutions

The closing phase of the Contingency Plan established poultry projects as legal economic alternatives to coca crops in El Dovio.

The COOMULSEPAZ Multiactive Women Seeding Peace Cooperative, founded by women participating in the Contingency Plan, is responsible for coordinating activities that will ensure that there will be no shortage of food in Anorí.

A Virtual Farmers Market was created as a strategy to face COVID-19 crisis in Colombia countryside.

Ex-combatant cooperatives will provide animal feed to ex-coca grower families and will buy their products at fair prices.

The Alternative Rural School (ERA) of Pasca provides food to Bogotá during the COVID-19 pandemic

The program “Land of Dreams” from RCN Radio, interviewed Pontus Ohrstedt, Head of the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund for Sustaining Peace in Colombia, and Juan Fernando Lucio, National Director of PASO Colombia.

The new Alternative Rural School in Carmen del Darién brings together a women's association and a cooperative of ex-combatants to jointly develop projects around medicinal plants and their transformation.