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Olya Hercules

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199 total appearances

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The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

Many people cannot afford the price of the olive oil because it's about, it arrives also to $20 or $18, $15 for one liter.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

So people cannot afford that.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

People change the olive oil to the other oil.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

I was very touched by Fida actually when she said that now in Palestine they don't have olive oil, they have seeds oil and this is making a havoc.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

Sorry, because, you know, in my house, one liter of olive oil is 15 days, you know.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

We drink it.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

And it's like, it's really a punishment to give you seed oil for these people.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

So it's traumatic.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

I'm not Palestinian, and look at me.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

So I can't imagine for them.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

So there is a lot of ways to punish people, a lot.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

And it's not only hunger.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

It's also privating you of your identity and your taste, which is olive oil.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

Lilia Menezes Trujillo is an indigenous woman from a Guaynano community in the Colombian Amazon.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

In this part, in the Guavira, in this part, it was a very, very, it was a war, actually, with the FARC.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

So it was a very, very, very, very high part of, let's say, the conflict.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

Like they say in Colombia, they don't say the war, they say the conflict.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

So when they start the peace agreements, the idea was to give back the land to the farmers because in the past it was drug and arms and the FARCs, you know.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

So the indigenous people, now they are allowed to cultivate their own land, ancestral land.

The Food Programme
Food Stories of Roots and Roads

It's their territory.