Colombia: Rural Development as a Path to Peace in Colombia is an Example for the World


Jul 5, 2017 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Colombia’s progress in using rural development as a tool to clinch peace after more than half a century of civil war can “fill the entire world with hope and knowledge,” FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today. FAO is working with government and civil society organizations and providing policy advice on three important new institutions: national land registry, a rural development agency and a territorial renovation agency.

Colombia’s progress in using rural development as a tool to clinch peace after more than half a century of civil war can “fill the entire world with hope and knowledge,” FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today. Colombia’s progress in using rural development as a tool to clinch peace after more than half a century of civil war can “fill the entire world with hope and knowledge,” FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today.