Colombia: Colombians Work to Reconcile Cattle Farming and Forests

May 15, 2018 | Maria Paula Rubiano, WorldCrunch
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An ambitious project to make livestock farming sustainable in Colombia is yielding results almost a decade after its implementation in 83 districts. Its lesson so far is that livestock and trees can coexist, and farmers can make money without cutting down the forest. Anyone observing the 43 million hectares Oxfam estimates are used as farming land in Colombia will see that the worst of its countryside's endemic problems are in livestock rather than crop farming.