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One Earth Future’s PASO Colombia program is helping cooperatives of ex-combatants to support reintegration and to face the emergency generated by COVID-19.

In a new eight week video series, “Women Seeding Peace: Life After Coca Crops,” One Earth Future Foundation’s PASO Colombia program presents the compelling stories of women who have courageously transformed their own lives and livelihoods to help put their communities on a path toward a more peacefu...

With a strategy that combines local knowledge and skills, with productive innovations and access to markets, 1,967 people who substituted coca crops have become engines of peace and sustainable development in their territories.

PASO Colombia and the UN support 1,967 farmers in the substitution of illegal crops, providing legal crop alternatives and access to markets.

The University of Notre Dame and PASO Colombia work together for the reintegration of ex-combatants and the substitution of crops for illicit use.

This plan supports families linked to the Comprehensive National Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS) in 10 municipalities in the country. In Dagua there are 200 people who are heads of related families, of which 132 are women.

Fund representatives spoke with Plan beneficiaries, checking on their progress and highlighting their experience in their newsletter.

2019, A Year Of Expansion For Rural Alternative Schools

These 29 ex-combatants, organized in the Multiactive Cooperative for the Development of Northeast Antioquia (COOMULDESNA), have been supported by PASO Colombia in their beekeeping project since February 2019.

A Rural Alternative School (ERA for its Spanish acronym) is a productive and educational unit in a territory affected by violence.

In the Rural Alternative School (ERA) of Tuluá, Valle del Cauca, an association of farmers who were victims of the armed conflict (ASOPROVENUS) and a cooperative of ex-combatants (COOLMUNES) have been collaborating on agricultural projects since July 2018.

This is a key region for peacebuilding efforts, strongly affected by the armed conflict before and after the 2016 Peace Agreement, with a long presence of crops for illicit use, a strategic location on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, and very rich in natural resources.

As part of a strategy to find new markets for the food produced in the Alternative Rural Schools (ERA), members of the ERA in Miranda began to participate

ERAs Test New Construction Technologies