Sentences with phrase «coca farmer»
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Under that deal, the government has pursued crop - substitution and alternative - development programs to pull farmers away from coca.
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With a lack of state support, farmers interested in moving out of the coca trade are often exposed to FARC dissidents and other criminal groups, who have rushed to fill the vacuum left by demobilizing FARC units and want farmers to continue tending coca bushes.
«They don't have the money to support us, and the pressure to continue [growing coca] is fierce,» a community leader in the isolated southwest municipality of Tumaco — a global hub for coca — said in late 2016, after a deadly clash between state security forces and farmers protesting efforts to destroy their coca.
It is important to understand why such farmers grow coca.
At the same time, the war on drugs was pushing coca cultivation out of Peru and Bolivia (which are to the south of Colombia), making it an even more attractive cash crop for Colombian farmers.