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Guatemala: Fairtrade 269 images Created 13 May 2012

ACODIHUE, La Asociación de Cooperación al Desarrollo Integral de Huehuetenango, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producing organisation in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, opens a defensive africanised hive to check the health of the hive frame by frame. The bees swarm around him.<br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
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  • Coffee farmer Pedro Vargas Maldonado uses a huge malanga leaf as an umbrella at Loma Linda, Retalhuleu. Manos Campesinas is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Quetzaltenango and Retalhuleu, Guatemala
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  • Antonio Gilberto Paz de los Santos, apiculture technical support officer from the coop, holds a handful of 'Italian' bees in his unprotected hands. The careful management of the queen bees in the area has eliminated the dangerous and defensive africanised bees. Cooperativa de producción integral apicultores del sur occidental RL, COPIASURO, is a Fairtrade-certified honey producer based in El Sitio, Catarina, San Marcos, Guatemala. COPIASURO collects and markets honey from apiaries from small-scale beekeepers in the San Marcos, Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango and Alta Verapaz regions, that covers highlands and lowlands.
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  • Two men heave a reluctant pig into a pickup truck.
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  • An orange cloud of smoke rises from a forest fire near Barillas, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • Sandri Lizeth García Herrera, 20, holds a frame of honeycomb before putting it into a centrifuge. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • Handfuls of freshly roasted coffee beans are held by an indigenous woman in Guatemala.
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  • A close up of a frame of honeycomb in a beehive, bees sucking up honey to move to another location. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • An indigenous woman walks on her knees down the aisle of the church in Nebaj, Quicke, Guatemala
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  • Early morning on the main square at Nebaj, Quiché.
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  • Meily Youna de Jesusa Marcos Ramírez, 3, coffee-farmer's daughter. CODECH is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Concepción Huista, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • Maya Ixil people during a political rally in Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala
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  • In a small chapel in Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala, crosses bear with the names of people killed during the violence of the 1980s in the Nebaj region.
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  • A coffee farmer stands in lush vegetation of his coffee farm on the Cuna Chorti cooperative, a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • Miguel Ostuma Raimundo waiting at the scales. Maya Ixil coffee cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee-producing organisation in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
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  • Regina Alvarez r in her coffee plot. CIASFA, formerly CECAPRO, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in La Unión, Zacapa, Guatemala.
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  • Moto taxis cross an evening street scene in Nebaj, Quiché
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  • Julio César Morales and Pedro Quino Chom dig a field with hoes to prepare it for planting a crop of mangetout beans. The men are members of the CORCI coop. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
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  • Vicente García, pea farmer. Sugar snap peas are irrigated by drip-feed tubes. Cooperativa Las Canoas is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer in San Miguel Las Canoas, Sololá, Guatemala. Some 90 indigenous Kaqchikel farmers make up the coop.
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  • A young mother looks after her baby on a break from coffee picking. Federación de Cooperativas Agrícolas de Productores de Café de Guatemala, FEDECOCAGUA is a Fairtrade-certified second-level cooperative based in Guatemala.
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  • Workers at the ADIPROVA processing centre work most of the night preparing mangetout peas for export. ADIPROVA is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer based in Santa María de Jesus, Saquetepequez, Guatemala.
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  • Receiving mangetout that is grown by members of the Q'ANIL coop based in Santa Maria de Jesus near Antigua, Guatemala. Reception is normally done at night.
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  • A statue of a saint with a machete in his head in the church at Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala
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  • Maya Ixil people raise their fists during a political rally in Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala
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  • A man with a hat walks along a street in Nebaj
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  • Juan Gonzalez is a member of the Cuna Chorti coffee farming coop. His ripe coffee cherries are ready to be picked on his coffee farm. This year, instead of ripening over three months, all the coffee ripened in one month, and farmers are putting this down to climate change. This has caused  problems as there isn't enough labour to pick the coffee in one month, so some coffee is being lost. Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • Miguel Angel García works with other beekeepers at his hives in Santa Ana, Petén. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
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  • Miguel Angel García, Rolando Barientos and Alex Juárez, beekeepers with their hives. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
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  • A bee stings a beekeeper's finger. Some beekepers say that the stings have medicinal and therapeutic qualities and give longevity, so they don't mind being stung. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • A closeup of a queen cell on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • A  figure with an umbrella walks along a foggy road at Loma Linda, Retalhuleu, Guatemala
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  • Alberta Guarchaj, Vice-President of the Nahuala coffee coop in the coop's coffee laboratory. Alberta is part of a women-only group that produce Feminine Coffee.
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  • Rosalina Anabela Guarchaj Guarchaj, walks between houses in the Nahuala community.
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  • Diego Guarchaj and Cruz Morroquin of the Nahuala coffee coop take a break at a small coffee plantation at the coop.
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  • Crecencia Eufrancia Ramírez Mendoza rakes parchment coffee on her drying patio while carrying her baby on her back. CODECH is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Concepción Huista, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • The sports pitch outside the CODECH offices in Concepción Huista. CODECH is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Concepción Huista, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • Wences Ramirez, spreads washed parchment coffee on the Cuna Chorti coop's drying patio. The Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • Virgilia Ramirez Perez on her patio moving washed parchment coffee around to dry in the sun. The Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • General Otto Pérez Molina, as a candidate  of the Partido Patriota in Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala
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  • General Otto Pérez Molina, as a candidate  of the Partido Patriota in Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala
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  • Ignacio Ramos at a meeting of coffee farmers associated to Cuna Chorti cooperative. The Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • Boys play football in muddy wellington books in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • Juan Gonzalez, member of the Cuna Chorti coop, shows ripe coffee cherries ready to be picked on his coffee farm. This year, instead of ripening over three months, all the coffee ripened in one month, and farmers are putting this down to climate change. This has caused a lot of problems as there isn't enough labour to pick the coffee in one month, so some coffee is being lost. The Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CunaChorti_20120307...jpg
  • Virgilia Ramirez Perez on her patio moving washed parchment coffee around to dry in the sun. The Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • Tiburcia Perez with her daughter Virgilia Ramirez Perez, members of the Cuna Chorti coffee farming coop. The Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • Marina Vasquez, in the family kitchen of Cuna Chorti coop members. The Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • Wences Ramirez, rests after spreading washed parchment coffee on the Cuna Chorti coop's drying patio. The Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • Bayron Leonel García, manager of the CIASFA coop. CIASFA, formerly CECAPRO, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in La Unión, Zacapa, Guatemala.
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  • Juan Fernando Castillo Díaz, VP of the coop with Bayron Leonel García, manager of the coop checking broca traps. Broca, otherwise known as the coffee berry borer beetle, can be trapped and killed with this simple kit. CIASFA, formerly is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in La Unión, Zacapa, Guatemala.
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  • Sebastiana Vásquez García with Maria Zulena Castillo Vásquez, 7, in a field of two-year old coffee plants. CIASFA, formerly CECAPRO, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in La Unión, Zacapa, Guatemala.
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  • A worker at CIASFA stands in the wet mill with a paddle. CIASFA, formerly CECAPRO, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in La Unión, Zacapa, Guatemala.
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  • Bayron Leonel García, manager of the coop atands on the edge of an oxidation pond for the safe treatment of liquid byproducts from the depulping. CIASFA, formerly CECAPRO, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in La Unión, Zacapa, Guatemala.
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  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, prepares his smoker and protective clothing before approaching his africanised beehives. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
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  • Miguel Angel García leads other beekeepers towards his hives in Santa Ana, Petén. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_017.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García leads other beekeepers towards his hives in Santa Ana, Petén. <br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_018.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García works with other beekeepers at his hives in Santa Ana, Petén. <br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_019.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, opens a defensive africanised hive and to check the health of the hive frame by frame. COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_044.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, opens a defensive africanised hive and to check the health of the hive frame by frame. COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_048.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, opens a defensive africanised hive and to check the health of the hive frame by frame. COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_058.jpg
  • Alex Juárez a beekeeper in his protective clothing on the back of a pickup truck travelling between groups of hives. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_063.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, opens a defensive africanised hive to check the health of the hive frame by frame. The bees swarm around him.<br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_089.jpg
  • Honey pours into a filter in the COADAP laboratory in Santa Elena, Petén. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_092.jpg
  • Honey pours into a filter in the COADAP laboratory in Santa Elena, Petén. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_094.jpg
  • Honey pours into a filter in the COADAP laboratory in Santa Elena, Petén. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_097.jpg
  • Dawn in Petén. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120309_101.jpg
  • Tea grows on bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Manfredo Max, in charge of commercialisation at Chirripeco. Tea grows on bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Tea bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Tea bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Tea bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Tea leaves in a tea wilting box at Chirripeco. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Ramón Baccol, in charge of the tea plant at Chirripeco shows the tea wilting boxes. Tea leaves in a tea wilting box at Chirripeco. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Ramón Baccol, in charge of the tea plant at Chirripeco shows the tea wilting boxes. Tea leaves in a tea wilting box at Chirripeco. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Packaging of tealeaves at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Packaging of tealeaves at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Packaging of tealeaves at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Black tealeaves at Chirripeco. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Packaging of tealeaves at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Alfredo Bac, President of the tea-producing Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala., President of the tea-producing Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • a hummingbird sits on a branch
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  • The scenery in Caquipec, La Tinta, Alta Verapaz, is mountainous and forested. APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
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  • APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
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  • APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_APODIP_20120310_135.jpg
  • APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_APODIP_20120310_151.jpg
  • A boy stands by a pond on a hillside.
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  • APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_APODIP_20120310_186.jpg
  • Domingo Ichich (in blue) and Mario Chub (in red). "The weather here changes quickly" says Mario, "we need a dryer, we've wanted one for ages, a guardiola dryer that doesn't use much firewood. We haven't got enough for the door and scales yet but we've saved our fairtrade premium for 6 years. Now we're building the dryer building and the dryer is being built in Cobán. We began organising to sell our coffee together, with APODIP, six years ago. There are 22 people in our group and now were building this another nine are joining. We bought this land as a group. Even people who aren't in the group have come here to help us build this shed for the dryer."  APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_APODIP_20120310_199.jpg
  • Domingo Ichich (in blue) and Mario Chub (in red). "The weather here changes quickly" says Mario, "we need a dryer, we've wanted one for ages, a guardiola dryer that doesn't use much firewood. We haven't got enough for the door and scales yet but we've saved our fairtrade premium for 6 years. Now we're building the dryer building and the dryer is being built in Cobán. We began organising to sell our coffee together, with APODIP, six years ago. There are 22 people in our group and now were building this another nine are joining. We bought this land as a group. Even people who aren't in the group have come here to help us build this shed for the dryer."  APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_APODIP_20120310_201.jpg
  • Domingo Ichich (in blue) and Mario Chub (in red). "The weather here changes quickly" says Mario, "we need a dryer, we've wanted one for ages, a guardiola dryer that doesn't use much firewood. We haven't got enough for the door and scales yet but we've saved our fairtrade premium for 6 years. Now we're building the dryer building and the dryer is being built in Cobán. We began organising to sell our coffee together, with APODIP, six years ago. There are 22 people in our group and now were building this another nine are joining. We bought this land as a group. Even people who aren't in the group have come here to help us build this shed for the dryer."  APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_APODIP_20120310_207.jpg
  • Domingo Ichich, "this is the timber we're using to build the shed for the dryer that we're buying with the fairtrade premium.APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
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  • A worker carries a sack of coffee to the top of a stack in a warehouse at the Maya Ixil coffee cooperative in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
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  • Market stall in Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala.
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  • Market stall in Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala.
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  • Market stall in Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala.
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  • Market stall in Nebaj, Quiche, Guatemala.
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  • A young woman picks coffee on a farm associated with the Maya Ixil coop in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
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  • A woman picks coffee on a farm associated with the Maya Ixil coop in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Maya_Ixil_20120312_...jpg
  • A woman picks coffee on a farm associated with the Maya Ixil coop in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
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