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ers and industrial sugar refineries play a major role. They want a monopoly over the market for sugar, panela and biofuels. As is happening with various crops, there is talk of the need for pre-requisites for health, but the state has not put in place a policy of adequate rural investment. It is a complex situa- tion for a country that is entering into peace talks to try to resolve a conflict, in a context of major interests moving to control natural resources, massive inequalities in access to land and a lack of rural reforms that would im- prove the living conditions of a histori- cally forgotten class, that of our small- scale farmers.39Find out moreRead the FAO report (bit.ly/1flowoj) on panela and its importance to rural families. See how panela is made: bit.ly/1nJ96j8