This is what Tatiana Bello, from the National Union for Agriculture and Food (UNAC), said. “This is causing supermarkets to offer consumers mainly imported products”, she added.

Part of the problem is the support of the Colombian government to the production of agrofuel crops. Currently, Colombia is the second South American producer of sugarcane ethanol, after Brazil.

“The production of agrofuels in Colombia has caused lands previously used to produce food to be taken away. In addition, the agricultural practices implemented are not appropriate, such as the burning of weeds, said Tatiana in an interview with Real World Radio.

“In Colombia there are urban production networks that produce in a clean way by not buying chemical inputs”, she concluded.