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Women meet to talk about life in Rio Cali - Cali - Colombia

The Cali River needs healing and a group of women from various groups that defend gender equality will meet tomorrow to say: “Women weave our territory. We are rivers, we are basin”.

This is the message given by Nancy Faride Arias, Virginia Casasfranco, Dora Chamorro and Liliana Pardo, as well as other members of the Women’s Social Movement.

“We women say it is necessary to turn the map of the city and look at it from west to east, from where the rivers are born in the Farallones to the Cauca River, where they flow,” says Arias.

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“We say what challenges us and moves us to meet around the basins, because the basins are comprehensive, nurturing, inclusive,” adds the activist.

“The waters contain what is seen and what is not seen: surface water or rivers and also groundwater, the soil that generates food, evaporated water, the water that makes up 80 percent of our bodies, trees that give shade and protect the rivers, the stones that slow down the passage of water and allow more life to be found in the rivers”.

For this reason, this Sunday the first meeting of rural and urban women’s organizations from the water territories and the feminist and sexual diversity gathering will take place to talk about their daily lives, their adversities, how they live with the pandemic and exclusion. The appointment will be in the central park Río Cali, from 9 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon. There will be Norma Bermúdez, and Adalgiza Charria.

(Also: Emergency due to floods in the south and southeast of Cali)

“The same basin has been cared for by the women of the townships, who, just as women give life and should not be victims of death, comments Liliana Pardo.

Although the Gender Observatory of the Government of the Valley (Ogen), reported 17 femicides between January 1 and December 31, 2021 with a reduction of 45 percent compared to 2020, the call of the groups against no More deaths or violence.

‘Violet Cali’ and ‘Vibra mujer’

Casa Matria, supported by the Mayor’s Office, also has programming for women this Sunday and on Monday with ‘Cali is painted purple’. On Sunday there will be a bicycle ride in the Jairo Varela square.

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Until this Sunday, the ‘Vibra Mujer Fair’ will be held at the La Estación shopping center, a space dedicated to the visibility and empowerment of businesswomen and entrepreneurs from Cali.

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Candidates for the Chamber for Santander talk about their proposals - Candidates - Elections 2022

For the next elections for the House of Representatives for Santander there are 61 candidates from ten parties, movements or coalitions who aspire to keep one of the seven seats that the department has.

EL TIEMPO spoke with the heads of the list of some of these communities and asked them about issues of national interest, such as economic reactivation, as well as about their bets on legislative initiatives that directly benefit Santandereans.

(Also: Candidates for the Chamber of Antioquia talk about regional issues)

Luz Dana Leal, Green Party

Luz Dana Leal, Green Party

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

Our party analyzes this panorama taking into account the economy in the post-pandemic, it is necessary that essential goods and services be prioritized: food, developing agriculture and that the peasants are co-owners of the productive chain, health, quality education, housing in the urban and rural. The premises of the welfare state are admirable, principles of the Keynesian model such as the increase in public spending, obviously without corruption, generating additional demand to drive investment and thus reduce unemployment.

(Also read: Candidates for the Chamber for the Valley talk about challenges and proposals)

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Projects for the transformation of Santanderean agriculture, of sustainable tourism, which must be intensified for economic reactivation. We are rich in biodiversity and our provinces are ready to be empowered.

Oscar Villamizar, Democratic Center

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

As a party, some programs have been promoted that motivate entrepreneurship and professional training, but this must go hand in hand with tax incentives so that companies generate more employment opportunities in Colombia. The need for forgivable credits for micro, small and medium entrepreneurs, which are the basis of our economy. This should be a public policy and the National Government should strengthen proposals such as Ser Pilo Pays or Matricula Cero, which really offers a future to our young people, who are the ones who see themselves most relegated and without opportunities.

(You may be interested in: The electoral environment in Barranquilla is neither seen nor felt)

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Without a doubt, Santander lacks good roads that facilitate the work of our farmers when transporting their products. The first commitment is with the veredal roads, since they generate development in the countryside and benefit all the producing families. In the same way, we will continue promoting initiatives that strengthen the laws that help our peasants to produce with competitive costs.

Juan Sebastian Lopez, Hope Center

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

Defend the Colombian internal market by renegotiating the FTAs that turned out to be bad deals for the country. Real support for industry and agriculture with reduced taxes on small and medium-sized businesses, cheap credit and increased tariffs.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Modernization of the Ecopetrol refinery in Barrancabermeja for a responsible energy transition. Reactivation of the Santander fashion system, footwear and clothing. Dual lane between Bucaramanga and Barbosa and a real road plan for Santander. Municipal and regional aqueducts, which are so needed. Navigability on the Magdalena River. Among others.

Total defense of water, the Santurbán páramo and other strategic ecosystems in the region. The ancestral expressions of small-scale mining must be respected and a responsible transition towards ecotourism and other activities with less environmental impact must be made.

(Keep reading: Team for Colombia: Who are the members of this coalition?)

Hector Mantilla, Conservative Party

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

As a candidate for the House of Representatives for Santander, I consider it pertinent that for there to be an economic reactivation, entrepreneurship must be supported and encouraged through soft loans and tax forgiveness (such as rent within the first two years), under certain parameters. that allow monitoring to avoid tax fraud; In addition to proposing that already established companies can have greater competitiveness in the market through lower tariffs on raw materials.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

I have always believed that Colombians are people pushed forward, with great business ideas that many times they cannot execute because they do not have the necessary tools; Therefore, I think it is important to promote an entrepreneurship law that provides opportunities for people to create a business or legalize the one they already have. This would undoubtedly boost the economic development of the country in the different regions. On the other hand, it is necessary to support the productive agricultural sectors of the country. We know that the field is extremely fundamental and needs guarantees so that its products can really be sold and generate profits.

Diego Frank Ariza, Liberal Party

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

The employment crisis can be overcome to the extent that we address the problems of sectors with high potential in Colombia, such as agribusiness, housing and manufacturing.

Direct foreign and national investment should be oriented towards low-impact infrastructure improvement programs, and thus increase the massive hiring of local labor.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

The main bet must be to overcome the great divergence between the country’s regions. In the first place, continue strengthening infrastructure projects at all levels, but mainly those that allow production centers to communicate efficiently with the national market.

(In other news: How is the fight for the Senate in the Valley?)

Erika Sánchez, League of Governors Movement

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

Attack head-on the causes that today have more than 22 million Colombians in poverty. The main cause that the League has identified is corruption, which implies the diversion of more than 50 billion pesos a year, which, if they were not stolen, would serve to be applied to investment and with it favor the millions of poor , which are, among other reasons, because they do not have permanent and decent sources of employment.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Act as a regional caucus. The regional projects that I will promote must be agreed with the governments of the department and the municipalities, in order to ensure that they are consistent with the respective development plans and thus avoid the promotion of projects that come out of a bucket, often contrary to the real needs of the community and only conceived with a political criteria of paying electoral favors.

In Cali they will talk about the economic perspectives in 2022 - Cali - Colombia

Panoramic view of Cali.

Portfolio and the Cali Chamber of Commerce are the organizers of the event.

Today, in Cali, the Great Forum of Economic Perspectives 2022 will be held. The event is organized by the economic newspaper Portafolio and the Cali Chamber of Commerce.

This is an event that has established itself as the scenario par excellence to discuss and analyze the country’s economy, giving rise to collective construction with businessmen from various sectors, in order to draw a map of the situation that outlines the roadmap for the year .

Participating in the forum will be Francisco Miranda, Portfolio Director; Carlos Andrés Pérez, Economic and Competitiveness Director of the Chamber of Commerce and the economist Jorge Restrepo.

To register, go to the link: https://www.ccc.org.co/foro-perspectivas-economicas-2022/

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Think US Home Values Are Soaring? Talk to a Farmer

Fourth-generation corn and soybean farmer Jeff Frank doesn’t feel rich, but simply based on the skyrocketing value of his land in northwest Iowa, it’s an apt way to describe him, even if he laughs at the idea.

He lives in the same nearly century-old house, grows veggies in the family garden and shops at the same grocery store about 15 miles (24 kilometers) down the road. “We live the same way we have all of our lives,” he said.

Still, even if Frank’s life hasn’t changed, the several hundred acres he owns about 80 miles (129 kilometers) northwest of Des Moines have suddenly made him worth millions of dollars.

It may come as a surprise to city dwellers excited by their home values that countless farmers like Frank are actually experiencing a real estate boom that makes residential prices pale in comparison. While median existing-home prices rose by 15.8% in the U.S. last year, farmland values went up about double that rate in places like Iowa.

“I’m definitely surprised by the magnitude,” said Wendong Zhang, an economist at Iowa State University who oversees an annual farmland value survey.

The rising values, especially in the Midwest, are due to high prices being paid for the key commodity crops of corn and soybeans, plentiful harvests in recent years coupled with low interest rates and optimism the good times will continue.

But they’re a mixed blessing. They’re enriching farmers who already have a lot of land, but making it much harder for small operators or younger farmers starting out to get land unless they happen to inherit it.

Most purchases are by operations that see the value of larger scale, seizing the chance to buy nearby land.

“If you miss this opportunity, you may not get another chance,” Zhang said, describing the current mood.

As for consumers, higher land costs typically don’t affect grocery prices.

Historically, farmland values rise and fall, but in the past couple decades they have mostly risen, and in the past year they have risen a lot — 33% in Frank’s part of the state and 29% throughout Iowa, one of the nation’s top agricultural states. Agricultural prices also have soared elsewhere in the Midwest and have climbed in most other parts of the country, too.

Federal Reserve Banks in Chicago and Kansas City reported double-digit increases in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri and Nebraska.

In Iowa, average farmland has risen from $7,559 an acre in 2020 to $9,751 an acre in 2021.

Nationally, farmland was up an average of 7% but that doesn’t include the last half of 2021, when prices really took off in many areas.

Farmland prices have even climbed in California despite concerns about persistent drought. In 2021, the average prices of $10,900 an acre was up 9% from 2020.

The land purchases augment an existing national trend of more agricultural production coming from ever-larger farms.

Dan Sumner, an agricultural economist at the University of California-Davis, credits some of the rising value in switching to higher-value crops, such as replacing alfalfa with nut trees.

Overall, though, Sumner said farmers are feeling good about their future.

“It reflects confidence in the economics of agriculture,” he said.

The upswing follows tumultuous years of trade wars, market breakdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic and drought in much of the West.

For individual farmers, the biggest benefit of rising values is that they can borrow money at better rates for annual needs like seed and fertilizer and longer-term investments like tractors and even more land.

The high prices have prompted plenty of people to buy and sell land, leading to a record of $765 million in agricultural land sales last year overseen by Farmers National Company, one of the nation’s largest landowner services companies.

Randy Dickhut, a Farmers National real estate broker in Omaha, Nebraska, said a more typical year would see about $500 million in sales.

“It’s been very busy,” Dickhut said. “It’s certainly easy to sell.”

But Holly Rippon-Butler, who runs a dairy with her parents in upstate New York, called the farmland prices increases “just nuts.”

“The hard reality is, buying land is almost impossible unless you have some preexisting source of generational family wealth,” said Rippon-Butler, who works with the National Young Farmers Coalition, an organization the among other priorities advocates for policy changes and public funding that would enable more people to have access to land.

Given high land prices, Rippon-Butler said beginning farmers she encounters typically work as little as a quarter-acre of land and see 20 acres as a relatively large operation. Many farmers also rent land, and as values rise, so do rental rates.

Frank, the farmer in northwest Iowa, said that even though he’s technically wealthier now, it hard for him to expand his holdings as he prepares to pass along the property to the next generation.

“I have a son who farms with me and of course he’d like to expand but buying farmland right now is a big undertaking,” he said. “Even for a small farm you’re talking about millions of dollars.”

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