Colombia: Corpocampo benefits ex-combatants with Amazonian crops

Corpocampo, a non-profit company that since 2003 that has been working together with Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities in the Colombian Pacific region and with the illicit crop substitution program in Putumayo is benefiting more than 400 former FARC combatants with the sowing of Amazonian crops. “Corpocampo seeks to strengthen the sowing of Amazonian crops such as acai, in which the Cooperativa Multiactiva Del Pueblo Putumayense participates, which is made up entirely of demobilized members of the Farc. In total there are 120 members who are in charge of planting products ”, explains Arturo Rojas, belonging to the NGO Corpocamapo and the Cooperativa Multiactiva Del Pueblo Putumayense. Corpocampo is in charge of accompanying them in the sowing and growth process and is in charge of marketing the project's products. "We have been with them for two years, in which we are in constant meetings and we guarantee by means of a contract, the purchase of 100% of the products that ...