Sentence examples for crop substitution programmes from inspiring English sources

More money now goes through the agriculture ministry on crop substitution programmes.

The accord creates voluntary crop substitution programmes to ensure that alternatives are sustainable from an environmental and economic point of view.

The agreement includes a Farc commitment to cut off all ties to the drug trade and a government promise to refocus its policies toward manual eradication, crop substitution programmes and voluntary eradication efforts.

In talks with Farc commanders in Havana and Oslo, Santos's negotiators have so far achieved agreement on agricultural reform and rural investment, an end to Farc involvement in drug trafficking, new drug crop substitution programmes, and an outline political transition and reconciliation process to reintegrate the group's remaining 8,000 fighters.

Now the AUC says it wants immediate dialogue, crop-substitution programmes to curb cocaine production, and even such sugary gestures as a handover to UNICEF of child combatants.This offer has come about after secret contacts, mediated by Catholic bishops, with President Alvaro Uribe's government.

Arco Iris stresses that its focus is not to make money, but to finance a host of programs, from teaching children about conflict resolution to training human rights workers to running a crop substitution program for coca farmers.

The coca farmers, meanwhile, will be offered a choice; a voluntary eradication and crop substitution program or the security forces ripping up their crops.

The FARC peace deal requires the rebels to assist with a nationwide coca crop substitution program, which is supposed to be voluntary and involve only manual eradication rather than fumigation with harmful pesticides.

Current crop substitution programs here offer farmers an income of only about 20percentt of their earnings from poppies, said Colonel Dibrell, the American attaché.

While aerial spraying is traditionally favored by the United States, many in Colombia argue that crop substitution programs similar to those that proved successful in Bolivia and Peru are more effective ways to wean peasant farmers from drug crops.

Who is skilled here?" Simply cutting production is not enough; crop substitution programs are needed to give farmers a new livelihood, and that is no easy matter, he said.