Category: Agriculture – Empowering Small-Scale Farmers

The road was nearly impassable again because of the rain.

Many rural areas in Colombia face the double challenge of participating in an increasingly dynamic global economy and of recovering from the country’s 60-year civil war.

Several years ago, as a university student at a federal public institution in Brazil, I had the privilege of availing myself of meals priced at a highly affordable 1.45 Brazilian reais (U.S. $0.30).

Warm tears dropped on my lap as I hopelessly stared at the cows in the pasture. Nobody had told me so, but—as my dad drove us away—I knew that was the last time I would contemplate that landscape.