More than 100,000 hectares of land seized from drug traffickers in Colombia will be used for sustainable farming initiatives. Thousands of families displaced by the decades of civil war violence stand to benefit.
Coffee farmers in the Venezuelan Andes are to receive loans for developing projects that halt deforestation and protect endangered species.
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