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Sustainability in times of post-conflict in Colombia

January 29, 2018 | Laurence Cornet & Gaia Squarci | Eye of Photography

 

Following the peace agreement signed between the FARC guerrilla group and the government, Colombians are re-appropriating their country’s natural assets. In the North-Western department of Chocó, one of the lushest, poorest and most politically unstable in the country, bioeconomy is a way to support the peace and simultaneously fight the towering rate of unemployment. Photographs by Gaia Squarci.

 

 

About the Authors

Laurence Cornet

Laurence Cornet is a freelance journalist based between France, the U.S. and Colombia. She worked extensively around the Mediterranean as a photography critic, curator and editor before moving to New… Read More.


Gaia Squarci

Gaia Squarci is a photographer and cinematographer based in New York. She is a contributor for Prospekt, an Italian agency of documentary photography and visual storytelling, and Reuters. Gaia focuses… Read More.

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