The President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, confirmed this Tuesday, July 2, through the social network Martha Carvajalino is the new Minister of Agriculture, after the departure of Jhenifer Mojica. Now the new portfolio chief executive will be responsible for promoting agricultural reform in Congress and ensuring that the countryside becomes more productive in the national territory.
“I thank Dr. Jennifer Mojica for her collaboration with the Colombian countryside and the peasant movement. The hands of the hoe will know how to love the woman who was with them. Dr. will continue. Martha Carvajalino, who will promote agrarian reform, with the task and a productive area with social justice,” wrote the president, Gustavo Petro.
Who is Martha Carvajalino, the new Minister of Agriculture?
After the departure of Jhenifer Mojica, Martha Carvajalino, the new Minister of Agriculture, came to take this position. This decision is part of the a ministerial shakeup announced by President Gustavo Petro a few days ago and that they will be given on July 20 of this year.
Martha Carvajalino yes a lawyer, she specializes in constitutional law and a master’s degree in law in 2012, all her studies were completed at the National University. In addition, she has 17 years of experience as a consultant on agricultural and environmental issues in public entities and international cooperation agencies.
He also served as deputy minister of rural development and worked since September 2016 and for seven years in the Attorney General’s Office as an agrarian judicial attorney in Bogotá. In addition, between July and August of the same year, she was part of the German Association for International Cooperation and an office adviser to the post-conflict ministry.
He was a contractor for the International Organization for Migration in April 2014, June 2016, and in 2015 in the National Natural Parks of Colombia. He also participated as contractor at the Rural Development Institute of Colombia, of the Foundation for Sustainable Development of Colombia (Fundescol).
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And as a lawyer she served as junior in the company JHS Ingeniería Limitada and as a university professional of the Special Administrative Unit for the Management of Expropriated Lands in June and July 2012. In addition, in 2008 he worked as a contractor in several private entities such as Planeta Paz, Corporación Movimiento por la Vida, Jóvenes Transformando Ciudad and the university Minuto de Dios; and in public entities such as the mayors of the towns of Sumapaz and Rafael Uribe Uribe in Bogotá.
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