Colombia: Sustainable Agriculture Is Building Peace in Colombia, Finds Research

May 17, 2023 | Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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In areas of Colombia once controlled by guerillas, conflicts over land continue and deforestation has risen considerably. But it's in these same areas that researchers have found that farmers implementing sustainable land use systems, like agroforestry driven by cocoa (one of the key ingredients of chocolate), has contributed to reducing conflicts.