Ixtlán de Juárez is a Zapotec community nestled in the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca that has managed to establish a connection with the land to conserve and use its wealth…
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The content of this webpage was taken from Biodiversitas no. 129, CONABIO’s newsletter.
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Quetzal and Shade Coffee.
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Interview with Maximino Garcia, coffee producer “Why me and not the others?” wondered Mixtec farmer Maximino Gonzalo García Pérez, while everyone…
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If you look at a map, you will see that Zaragoza lies at the end of a winding, rocky road after a 10-hour journey. We traveled to this community in the heart of the Sierra Madre del Sur…
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El caficultor Félix Faustino García Don Felix Faustino García watched as coffee leaf rust spread through the state, expanding further and further every year until one day it reached the…
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The February air whistled through our clothes that chilly morning in Santa María Yucuhiti, Oaxaca. However, the cold did not seem to deter the group of 10 young people who had turned up to do bird monitoring…
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Twenty years ago, Oaxacan coffee grower Salomón García Moreno realized that all small farmers had to sell their products to intermediaries, who regularly…
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For over 50 years, coffee has been the leading economic activity in the Sierra Norte de Chiapas as well as the main instrument for the exclusion and economic oppression of farming families…