OEF in the Media

El Espectador, diario nacional, entrevistó a Johana, protagonista de la serie “Sembradora de Paz”

The Colombian national newspaper, El Espectador, interviewed Johana, the subject of Episode 5 of PASO Colombia’s web series “Women Seeding Peace.”

The news section of the Capital Channel talked about the stories of social transformation that were recorded in the web series “Women Seeding Peace.”

El Canal Capital se resaltaron las historias de transformación social que quedaron consignadas en la serie web “Sembradoras de Paz”.

Fernando Pieschacón, Communications Officer of PASO Colombia, and director of the series “Sembradoras de Paz” was invited to make a video column on the website Razón Pública.

Fernando Pieschacón, Oficial de Comunicaciones de PASO Colombia, y director de la serie “Sembradoras de Paz” fue invitado a hacer una videocolumna en el portal web Razón Pública.

Fernando Pieschacón, Communications Officer of PASO Colombia, and Director of the series “Women Seeding Peace” was invited to make a video column in the web portal Razón Pública.

The newspaper El Tiempo published an article on “Women Seeding Peace”, a series that brings together the stories of peasant women who voluntarily substituted crops for illicit use.

El diario El Tiempo publicó un artículo sobre “Sembradoras de Paz”, una serie que reúne las historias de mujeres campesinas que sustituyeron voluntariamente cultivos de uso ilícito.

The national newspaper El Tiempo published an article on "Women Seeding Peace," a video series that brings together the stories of peasant women who voluntarily substituted crops for illicit use.

In a recent article in Reuters, OEF Senior Researcher, Jay Benson spoke about the potential for increased demand for diaspora bonds, listing potential issuers with large diasporan populations as Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ecotourism could also play a part. “Responsible dolphin watching expeditions can provide alternative livelihoods for local communities and promote conservation,” says Nelly Isigi Kadagi, a joint postdoctoral fellow at the University of Denver in Colorado, and the US nonprofit One Earth Future.

In that report, lead author Colleen Devlin breaks Somalia’s recent past into three distinct periods: from 1998 to 2000, conflict between domestic and foreign fishers soared; from 2002 to 2010, Somali pirates took control of the water, driving back foreign vessels; and from 2014 to 2015, piracy calme...

For local communities already struggling with pollution and climate change, illegal industrial fishing “is an additional stressor that depletes fisheries resources,” says Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, a research consultant for Colorado-based One Earth Future who was not involved in the study.

Kjell Roland, Norfund CEO, said: This is an important investment and proofs the entrepreneurial spirit of Norfund. With Shuraako as a partner, we have a local team on the ground that works already.

Our Secure Future highlighted in Just Security oped by Ambassador Donald Steinberg