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Rebuilding lives, restoring hope in Colombia 
The Food and Agriculture Organization, with support from the government of Sweden, is working with Colombia to help devastated communities rebuild their livelihoods and get back on their feet after half a century of conflict. 
Country Colombia
Duration 6m53s 
Edit Version International
Video Type Video News Release (VNR)
Date 10/02/2017 
File size 504.72 MB 
Unique ID UF2SUV 
All editorial uses permitted 
Production details and shotlist
UNFAO Source FAO Video
Shotlist 1. Aerial WS over farms in Pertenencia, Colombia 


2. SOT Robinson Salas – Displaced farmer (Spanish): Where we are now, violence was a daily reality with the presence of armed groups.  … The situation continued to get worse with more violence each day until we had to abandon the farm.


3. MS Salas untethering his donkey


4. MS Salas pulling donkey into position


5. MS Salas climbing onto donkey and riding away


6. WS Salas riding donkey


7. MCU Salas riding


8. WS Salas riding away 


9. WS view of village and trees


10. WS Salas riding donkey down path


11. CU donkey’s feet


12. WS Salas riding away down hill


13. SOT Robinson Salas – Displaced farmer (Spanish): We still had the lot of land, but I could not come here.  So one of my brothers / managed the land / until he was killed in 2006.  I had another brother who was killed in 2007. After he was killed we abandoned the land completely.


14. WS Salas walks to his corn crop


15. CU Salas’ hands clearing growth from his crops


16. WS Salas clearing growth along row of crops


17. WS Ismael Perez carrying bucket for milking 


18. CU Perez’ hands milking cow


19. Perez milking cow


20. SOT Ismael Perez – Farmer (Spanish): Once they came to threaten me and told me, ‘So we have heard you are the brave guy.’  I told them I was not brave, and that I just needed to feed my family. / I only know how to work the land and grow my crops and take care of my animals to support my children, and I could not leave the land.


21. WS Perez’ home with donkey 


22. MS Perez working with son to shuck corn


23. CU Perez’ son shucking corn


24. MS Perez and son shucking corn


25. MS church façade in town square


26. WS kids playing football in town square


27. WS motorcycles driving on town street


28. Aerial WS of farm , home and livestock pen


29. WS small structure surrounded by trees


30. WS motorcyclist driving down village road


31. WS Abandoned school house amidst wild growth


32. SOT Robinson Salas – Displaced farmer (Spanish): It was in the middle of the jungle. It had nothing but bad weeds.


33. WS Farmer rounding up cows


34. CU cows


35. WS farmer brushing cow’s back


36. WS aerial view of reservoir


37. MS aerial view of reservoir


38. WS Farmer directing cow to milking station


39. CU milking apparatus 


40. WS farmer waiting as machine milks cow


41. WS Apacambi association meeting


42. MS FAO consultant assisting association meeting


43. CU farmer listening


44. WS Ismael Perez and other farmers planting new crops


45. CU farmer planting crop


46. WS Perez and farmers planting


47. SOT Laureano Hernandez - FAO Technical Consultant (Spanish): Together they have rebuilt that community that was broken due to the violence, and they are working together.  That has generated a scenario for peace and reconciliation, in order to help rural development for this region.


48. WS Woment’s group planting and watering crops


49. MS women watering crops


50. CU hand shaking corn kernels for chickens


51. WS Sirle Ruiz feeding chickens and turkey


52. MS fowl eating


53. SOT Sirle Ruiz - Apacambi Women’s Group member (Spanish): The project has helped us because we did not have any projects in the past. Each one of us was at home without anything to do. However we have benefitted a lot from these projects because they have motivated us to continue working so that we can have something / to realize in the future.


54. WS aerial view of farmer tilling soil


55. MS farmers in association planting together


56. CU farmer’s hands planting


57. MS farmers planting


58. SOT Spanish; DAVELIS BORJA, Apacambi association member (Spanish): You see everyone who had to leave the land are now working together in an association. / We have received training and we can now say that we are all working together as a community. / So the idea is to grow together and to get rid of resentment while working together to succeed.


59. WS aerial view of farmers planting together


60. WS aerial view of field, moving backwards 





ENDS 
Script In 1991, Colombia’s long-running conflict arrived at Robinson Salas’ home. Armed men killed his brother, along with several neighbors, here in the small village of Pertenencia, in the country’s north. The village name means “Belonging.” A place where Salas’ blindness is hardly an obstacle. But on that night, he and his family gave up everything they owned and fled to a nearby town, facing an uncertain future. Salas' neighbor across the valley, Ismael Perez, refused to leave. Despite constant threats on his life, he remained, looking over his crops and tending cattle. During five decades of war, millions of Colombians left their homes to escape executions, kidnappings and land seizures by armed groups. Villages that were once thriving livestock and agricultural centers fell silent. Farms vanished under bush, and markets collapsed into ruin. When the violence finally waned in Pertenencia, many wanting to return found their homes were inhabited by someone else, or lost to the wilderness. The Food and Agriculture Organization, with support from the government of Sweden, is working with Colombia to help devastated communities rebuild their livelihoods and get back on their feet. In Pertenencia, engineers have built large reservoirs to collect water for irrigation and cattle during the dry season, improving yields and incomes of nearby farmers. The project has also provided training and equipment for milk production, raising chickens and planting orchards. But perhaps the biggest step is one the community took on its own. With support from FAO, they established an association of local farmers, who plant together and share profits. The enterprise, named APACAMBI, is repairing much more than a shattered economy. It is also offering women new opportunities. Women members of the association grow vegetables and raise hens to get an extra income — and new confidence.  Motivation and means that are helping broken communities heal and rebound after half a century of conflict. 
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