Rurality in Colombia: We Still Have a Lot to Change/ Too Much to Do Volume 3 - Issue 5

Jesus David Ponce Mendoza*

• Department of Agroforestry, Technological University of Chocó-UTCH, Colombia

Received: July 12, 2018;   Published: July 25, 2018

Corresponding author: Jesus David Ponce Mendoza, Department of Agroforestry, Technological University of Chocó-UTCH, Colombia

DOI: 10.32474/CIACR.2018.03.000173

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“For a dignified rurality, Colombia not only needs a comprehensive and equitable rural reform, but also a political system free of impurities” (Ponce-Mendoza, 2018). We are facing a situation that had to be treated differently for a long time, since in fact it is different, and during the last 15 or 20 years nothing productive has been done about it. It is very clear that it is necessary to improve the living conditions of rural inhabitants, the municipal vulnerability and rurality indices show that it is a priority [1]. Therefore, it is vital to design and implement differential public policies that meet the needs of the rural population in each region of the country; we do not need the same policies as always: “that favor the few at the cost of sweat and the work of many, that is, that the poor work more and become poorer day by day, and that the rich work less and become richer every day, but at the expense of the work of the poor. “