Voices from the Coca Fields. Women Building Rural Communities
Voices from the Coca Fields is the result of a collaborative effort between two research areas of Dejusticia—its nondiscrimination area and its drug policy area— that were convinced of the need for gender equality in peacebuilding.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Colombia currently has 146,000 hectares of coca;1 following the peace accord signed in 2016 between the national government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country is facing enormous pressure to reduce this number to secure peace in rural areas and to increase the state’s presence in historically neglected regions.
This book explores the experience of the human faces behind these numbers— the lives of the people from a specific region in Colombia who grow coca as a means of survival within the context of precarious living conditions and constant disputes between armed actors.
We selected the Andes-Amazon region of Colombia— particularly the department of Putumayo—as the focus of our study, for it is a region where violence, colonization, poverty, and state building converge around coca cultivation and pose particular challenges to the implementation of crop substitution programs as proposed in point four of the final peace accord signed between the Colombian government and the FARC. In addition to this particular region of study, we focus specifically on the experience of women coca growers. Those who grow coca in the southern part of the country share experiences of poverty, stigmatization, criminalization, and a historical state focus on militarization and resource extraction as opposed to human rights and well-being.
Description taken and adapted from this publication.
Fuente:
Biblioteca Virtual Banco de la República
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