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Dilma Chávez is a small-scale coffee farmer in San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. She is a member of the Montaña Verde cooperative. “On my farm and my husbands farm we have a lot of fissures on the farm, and some landslides. The roads are badly damaged, some of them you can’t pass. We are having to fix the small roads into the farms ourselves, there’s no help from the government. The coffee is suffering a lot from fungal infections, ojo de gallo, leaf rust, and it’s very hard to control with so much moisture, it will probably spread and gets worse. This year we’ll have a big drop in production, everyone in the coop will suffer, it’s big. And that affects us all economically. And some houses have been affected, in the two villages called El Zapote. We grow most of our own food here, and all those crops have also be affected, the corn, the beans, with so much rain we’ve lost a lot of that too.”

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Dilma Chávez is a small-scale coffee farmer in San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. She is a member of the Montaña Verde cooperative. “On my farm and my husbands farm we have a lot of fissures on the farm, and some landslides. The roads are badly damaged, some of them you can’t pass. We are having to fix the small roads into the farms ourselves, there’s no help from the government. The coffee is suffering a lot from fungal infections, ojo de gallo, leaf rust, and it’s very hard to control with so much moisture, it will probably spread and gets worse. This year we’ll have a big drop in production, everyone in the coop will suffer, it’s big. And that affects us all economically. And some houses have been affected, in the two villages called El Zapote. We grow most of our own food here, and all those crops have also be affected, the corn, the beans, with so much rain we’ve lost a lot of that too.”