Hot Chocolate: Tumaco Takes on Climate Change

UNIC Bogota has produced a short movie in collaboration with WFP who are accompanying Afro-descendents and Awa Indigenous communities in their adaptation to climate change, with a focus on food security and gender.

The movie concentrates on the present situation of the Alto and Bajo Mira Afro-descendent communities, who have been brutally affected by climate change, environmental problems (deforestation, illegal mining) and violence (this is one of the hottest spots for drug production and trafficking in Colombia / Ecuador).

In our short movie, the participants explain how they have been affected by climate change and environmental issues, and how they are trying to turn to (legal) agriculture to fight against illegal economies and ensure better food security – by trying to produce a high quality chocolate, a process that WFP will follow for the next 5 years.