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Cutting off Violence at its Roots
Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS: STRUGGLE FOR DEVELOPMENT
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Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 1/1/2002
Size: 237 Words, 1,521 Characters

Some researchers in Colombia are banking on farmer participatory research to help create the conditions for peace in their country. "We believe participatory methods will better enable farme...

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...ying causes of war through participatory agricultural research. Even so, the evidence from some communities suggests that they are prepared to try. Rather than leave their future in the hands of those who have the guns, maybe Colombia's poor farmers are ready to claim a share of the power over what concerns them most--producing better crops to better provide for their families.--G.T. and N.R.



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