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  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. In this picture he is with his daughter and grandson. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_690.jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_667.jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_647.jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_658.jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_664.jpg
  • Danilo Valencia of CIEETS on the farm of Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua. CIEETS has provided technical support to farmers through a CWS-supported project.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1577.jpg
  • Rosa Lilian Peña and Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by a disease so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I’ve also had three pigs, through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens. I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more.” <br />
<br />
Rosa Lilian says: “Thank God, we’ve had this project with CIEETS, we got the chicks, the team taught us about poultry management, and we’ve been selling the chicken, it’s helped us a lot economically, we’ve been able to help our children and pay for their education. Our eldest son is beginning to study medicine at university, we’re paying for that with the profit we make from the chickens.”
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_453.jpg
  • Rosa Lilian Peña and Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by a disease so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I’ve also had three pigs, through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens. I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more.” <br />
<br />
Rosa Lilian says: “Thank God, we’ve had this project with CIEETS, we got the chicks, the team taught us about poultry management, and we’ve been selling the chicken, it’s helped us a lot economically, we’ve been able to help our children and pay for their education. Our eldest son is beginning to study medicine at university, we’re paying for that with the profit we make from the chickens.”
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_454.jpg
  • Claudia Palacios, Maryan Gúzmán and Danilo Valencia of CIEETS in Claudia Palacios' farm in Carazo. CIEETS has provided technical support to farmers through a CWS-supported project.
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  • Danilo Valencia of CIEETS in Claudia Palacios' farm in Carazo. CIEETS has provided technical support to farmers through a CWS-supported project.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_714.jpg
  • Rosa Lilian Peña and Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by a disease so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I’ve also had three pigs, through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens. I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more.” <br />
<br />
Rosa Lilian says: “Thank God, we’ve had this project with CIEETS, we got the chicks, the team taught us about poultry management, and we’ve been selling the chicken, it’s helped us a lot economically, we’ve been able to help our children and pay for their education. Our eldest son is beginning to study medicine at university, we’re paying for that with the profit we make from the chickens.”
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_495.jpg
  • Rosa Lilian Peña and Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by a disease so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I’ve also had three pigs, through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens. I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more.” <br />
<br />
Rosa Lilian says: “Thank God, we’ve had this project with CIEETS, we got the chicks, the team taught us about poultry management, and we’ve been selling the chicken, it’s helped us a lot economically, we’ve been able to help our children and pay for their education. Our eldest son is beginning to study medicine at university, we’re paying for that with the profit we make from the chickens.”
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_463.jpg
  • Pastor, Adan García Díaz, pastor of the Nazareno Church in El Tigre, Carazo, Nicaragua.<br />
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“We’re here, thanks be to God, and we are blessed by CIEETS and CWS with this project. It’s a blessing for us, for El Tigre, San Gregorio, Los Ranchos, San Vicente, San Antonio, all of us here. God willing, we’ll continue this work for the benefit of everyone. We are getting big changes in the weather, the climate, the rain is irregular. CIEETS has helped us a lot to adapt to the changes, we can’t rely on the sort of agriculture that we used to rely on.”
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_418.jpg
  • Pastor, Adan García Díaz, pastor of the Nazareno Church in El Tigre, Carazo, Nicaragua.<br />
<br />
“We’re here, thanks be to God, and we are blessed by CIEETS and CWS with this project. It’s a blessing for us, for El Tigre, San Gregorio, Los Ranchos, San Vicente, San Antonio, all of us here. God willing, we’ll continue this work for the benefit of everyone. We are getting big changes in the weather, the climate, the rain is irregular. CIEETS has helped us a lot to adapt to the changes, we can’t rely on the sort of agriculture that we used to rely on.”
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_428.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1376.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1365.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by vinegar fly  so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I have different types of Melipona, I've got Mariola and Tamagaz."
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_688.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by vinegar fly  so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I have different types of Melipona, I've got Mariola and Tamagaz."
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_660.jpg
  • The CIEETS programme taught people to diversify their produce to reduce risk in changing climate. Many fruits have been grown in the programme in Carazo, including pineapple, pitahaya, citrus, coconuts, guava, bananas and grenadines.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1149.jpg
  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1027.jpg
  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1021.jpg
  • Daysi Solis García at home in El Tigre, Carazo. Here she tends her hens, part of a CWS-supported project with CIEETS.
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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_577.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_416.jpg
  • Pitahaya is a cactus that gives the bright magenta Dragon Fruit, it begins growing from the soil, and grows up trees, eventually leaving the soil behind and living entirely on the bark of the tree disconnected from the soil. CIEETS has been promoting the fruit with CWS-support as part of a diversification program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1545.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1419.jpg
  • experiments in grafting fruit trees in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_442.jpg
  • Omar Antonio López in San Antonio Abajo, a participant in a CIEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_886.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_487.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1650.jpg
  • Pitahaya is a cactus that gives the bright magenta Dragon Fruit, it begins growing from the soil, and grows up trees, eventually leaving the soil behind and living entirely on the bark of the tree disconnected from the soil. CIEETS has been promoting the fruit with CWS-support as part of a diversification program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1520.jpg
  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1014.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by vinegar fly  so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I have different types of Melipona, I've got Mariola and Tamagaz."
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_671.jpg
  • Raymundo pours a glass of water from a filter given through the CIEETS/CWS project.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_517.jpg
  • A project area for work by CIEETS/CWS in San Antonio Abajo, Carazo, Nicaragua. The area has suffered deluges of rain that have washed away newly sown seeds and plantlings.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_900.jpg
  • Newly-planted bananas grow on Fernando José Silva Parrales' farm in Carazo. CIEETS has provided technical support to farmers through a CWS-supported project.
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  • Newly-planted bananas grow on Fernando José Silva Parrales' farm in Carazo. CIEETS has provided technical support to farmers through a CWS-supported project.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_836.jpg
  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_761.jpg
  • Quequisque, a root tuber, is grown in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_735.jpg
  • Alan Josué Palacios, 10, his mother Claudia takes part in the CIEETS program supported by CWS in the El Tigre community, Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_673.jpg
  • In the house of Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. Danilo Valencia and Maryan Guzmán of CIEETS. Ivan is visible in the mirror.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_998.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_525.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1661.jpg
  • Latrines, built with support from CIEETS, FRB and CWS. Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1561.jpg
  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm poultry, and he has a variety of hens and chickens and ducks running freerange, as well as many chickens inside that are fattening for meat.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1143.jpg
  • The CIEETS programme taught people to put tiny fish in their water tanks, these fish eat the larvae of mosquitos, and this cuts down on mosquito-borne infections such as dengue, malaria, chikungunya.
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  • Maryan Guzmán, technical advisor and teacher for CIEETS speaks with pastor Adan García Díaz, pastor of the Nazareno Church in El Tigre.
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  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1360.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1329.jpg
  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey. This variety is called Star Bee because of the shape it make at the opening of the hive.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1130.jpg
  • Melipona, a stingless bee, is kept in hives as part of a CIEETS/CWS project on agricultural diversification in Carazo
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_439.jpg
  • Danilo Valencia of CIEETS stand in the shade of a tree in San Antonio Abajo, site of a CWS-supported project for strengthening production and diversification.
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  • Calala, a fruit like grenadilla, is grown in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_439.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_546.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_550.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_499.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1640.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1668.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1635.jpg
  • Reservoirs like this have been built by participants in the CWS-supported projects in Carazo with CIEETS. Agressive harvesting of rainwater from roofs gives a small buffer for irrigation in dry spells which are increasing.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1466.jpg
  • Pitahaya is a cactus that gives the bright magenta Dragon Fruit, it begins growing from the soil, and grows up trees, eventually leaving the soil behind and living entirely on the bark of the tree disconnected from the soil. CIEETS has been promoting the fruit with CWS-support as part of a diversification program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1481.jpg
  • René Bermúdez, has learned about poultry management with the CIEETS/CWS program in Carazo. He currently has 140 chickens he's fattening to sell, plus 40 hens he keeps for eggs.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1261.jpg
  • Melipona, a stingless bee, is kept in hives as part of a CIEETS/CWS project on agricultural diversification in Carazo
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_424.jpg
  • Garden papaya is grown by beekeepers to feed and attract bees as near to the hives as possible, they produce a lot of nectar. Here a mellipona bee, a stingless bee, feeds on the flowers. CIEETS/CWS promote beekeeping in a joint project
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_419.jpg
  • Omar Antonio López in San Antonio Abajo, a participant in a CIEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_879.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1379.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1348.jpg
  • René Bermúdez, has learned about poultry management with the CIEETS/CWS program in Carazo. He currently has 140 chickens he's fattening to sell, plus 40 hens he keeps for eggs.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1213.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by vinegar fly  so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I have different types of Melipona, I've got Mariola and Tamagaz."
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_701.jpg
  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_791.jpg
  • Tomato plants grown in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops. Despite extremely high rainfall in previous days, the plants survived.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_458.jpg
  • The CIEETS programme taught people to diversify their produce to reduce risk in changing climate. Many fruits have been grown in the programme in Carazo, including pineapple, pitahaya, citrus, coconuts, guava, bananas and grenadines.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1151.jpg
  • The CIEETS programme taught people to put tiny fish in their water tanks, these fish eat the larvae of mosquitos, and this cuts down on mosquito-borne infections such as dengue, malaria, chikungunya.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1196.jpg
  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_804.jpg
  • Grape vines grown in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_459.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_468.jpg
  • Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. As part of a CIEETS/CWS project, Silvio has planted plenty of cassava
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_805.jpg
  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey. This is a portrait of him with his son René Camilo.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_430.jpg
  • Omar Antonio López in San Antonio Abajo, a participant in a CIEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_896.jpg
  • Daysi Solis García with her husband Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
Fernando says: “we bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_816.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_554.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_501.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_474.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_412.jpg
  • Latrines, built with support from CIEETS, FRB and CWS. Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1562.jpg
  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_799.jpg
  • Alan Josué Palacios, 10, his mother Claudia takes part in the CIEETS program supported by CWS in the El Tigre community, Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_644.jpg
  • Natalie Julissa Palacios, 13, her mother Claudia takes part in the CIEETS program supported by CWS in the El Tigre community, Carazo, Nicaragua. Here, Claudia's field is sown with beans.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_524.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_544.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1618.jpg
  • Pitahaya is a cactus that gives the bright magenta Dragon Fruit, it begins growing from the soil, and grows up trees, eventually leaving the soil behind and living entirely on the bark of the tree disconnected from the soil. CIEETS has been promoting the fruit with CWS-support as part of a diversification program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1479.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1312.jpg
  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1026.jpg
  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey. This is a portrait of him with his son René Camilo.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_435.jpg
  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_765.jpg
  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_741.jpg
  • Alan Josué Palacios, 10, his mother Claudia takes part in the CIEETS program supported by CWS in the El Tigre community, Carazo, Nicaragua. Here, Claudia's field is sown with beans.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_545.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua, with a hive of Melipona bees. “Before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1437.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by vinegar fly  so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I have different types of Melipona, I've got Mariola and Tamagaz."
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_654.jpg
  • Pepper plants grown in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_455.jpg
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