Could agroecology save Colombia’s farming crisis?

By Andrés Bernal Sánchez, Juanita Rico, Open Democracy

Agroecological processes, like the ones promoted by this exemplary project, are an essential part of the reconstruction of a local, balanced, fair and sustainable economy, which will keep young people in the region and contribute to a transformation of the countryside where the values of sustainability and food sovereignty prevail over an extractivist tradition that has wreaked havoc in the region for too long.

Colombian fishers are fighting for their rights and protection of vital wetlands

By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Climate Home News

In November, on the banks of the calm, reflective waters of the Cascaloa Ciénaga, a floodplain lake extending 12,000 hectares (120 sq km) in northern Colombia, a group of traditional fishers met.

Páramos at Risk: The Interconnected Threats to a Biodiversity Hotspot

By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, The Revelator

Páramos, experts say, may also serve as a sort of buffer against climate-change-induced recession of tropical mountain glaciers and extended droughts — if we can protect them.