COLOMBIA: Pacification By Returning Land To Farmers.

PRI/ THEWORLD.ORG/ JOHN OTIS/ AUDIO With  TEXT/

     Perhaps the best English-language journalist exclusively covering Colombia, John Otis reports on Colombia's new strategy to pacify the countryside by returning stolen acreage to small farmers and providing land titles.
  Currently, about 40 percent of rural properties in lack legal titles. so important for collateral. Without titles, farmers can't get loans to buy seeds and fertilizer and improve their standard of living.