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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_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_499.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
  • 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
  • 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_1329.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_1360.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Raymundo pours a glass of water from a filter given through the CIEETS/CWS project.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_517.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
  • 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_886.jpg
  • Pastor Adan García Díaz, pastor of the Nazareno Church in El Tigre helps Fernando José Silva Parrales move a sack of banana corms, for use by another project participant in a COEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_856.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
  • Salvador Hernandez in Piedras Negras, Santa Barbara, Honduras, working on beehives in a community project that produces honey, beeswax and royal jelly. Produce is consumed in the community and sold in local markets. The project, that is part of a broader regional programme on food production and nutrition, is supported by CWS through CASM.
    honduras_hawkey_20120111_1362.jpg
  • Manuel Lopez walks over a neighbour's ground that has been burned. Agricultural advisors in a programme supported by CWS are encouraging more sustainable methods of weed control, that prevent erosion of slopes.
    honduras_hawkey_20110615_414.jpg
  • Salvador Hernandez in Piedras Negras, Santa Barbara, Honduras, working on beehives in a community project that produces honey, beeswax and royal jelly. Produce is consumed in the community and sold in local markets. The project, that is part of a broader regional programme on food production and nutrition, is supported by CWS through CASM.
    honduras_hawkey_20110614_300.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_624.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_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_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_544.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
  • 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_456.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_468.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
  • Latrines, built with support from CIEETS, FRB and CWS. Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1561.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_1419.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_1409.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
  • 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_1227.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
  • 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.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1014.jpg
  • Honeu from Melipona bees produced through the CIEETS/CWS program by René Bermúdez, El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_946.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_435.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
  • 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
  • Omar Antonio López in San Antonio Abajo, a participant in a CIEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_896.jpg
  • Pastor Adan García Díaz, pastor of the Nazareno Church in El Tigre helps Fernando José Silva Parrales move a sack of banana corms, for use by another project participant in a COEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_871.jpg
  • Pastor Adan García Díaz, pastor of the Nazareno Church in El Tigre helps Fernando José Silva Parrales move a sack of banana corms, for use by another project participant in a COEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_857.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
  • 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
  • Alan Josué Palacios, 10, his mother Claudia takes part in the CIEETS program supported by CWS in the El Tigre community, Carazo, Nicaragua. Here Alan plays with a slingshot.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_551.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
  • Salvador Hernandez in Piedras Negras, Santa Barbara, Honduras, working on beehives in a community project that produces honey, beeswax and royal jelly. Produce is consumed in the community and sold in local markets. The project, that is part of a broader regional programme on food production and nutrition, is supported by CWS through CASM.
    honduras_hawkey_20110713_639.jpg
  • A young woman cooking in her kitchen. She lives in a coastal area affected by floods and landslides during the rainy season on the Atlantic coast of Honduras near Trujillo, and takes part in projects supported by CWS to reduce risks and disasters.
    honduras_hawkey_20110617_560.jpg
  • Wendy Lopez lays a table for a family meal in a rural household in Buenos Aires, Santa Barbara, Honduras. Wendy and her family take part in a programme assisted by CWS and partner organisation CASM that focuses on food production and nutrition. The interventions of the programme are strategic and aim to boost areas of poor nutrition.
    honduras_hawkey_20110615_437.jpg
  • Salvador Hernandez in Piedras Negras, Santa Barbara, Honduras, working on beehives in a community project that produces honey, beeswax and royal jelly. Produce is consumed in the community and sold in local markets. The project, that is part of a broader regional programme on food production and nutrition, is supported by CWS through CASM.
    honduras_hawkey_20110614_321.jpg
  • Salvador Hernandez in Piedras Negras, Santa Barbara, Honduras, working on beehives in a community project that produces honey, beeswax and royal jelly. Produce is consumed in the community and sold in local markets. The project, that is part of a broader regional programme on food production and nutrition, is supported by CWS through CASM.
    honduras_hawkey_20110614_289.jpg
  • Salvador Hernandez in Piedras Negras, Santa Barbara, Honduras, working on beehives in a community project that produces honey, beeswax and royal jelly. Produce is consumed in the community and sold in local markets. The project, that is part of a broader regional programme on food production and nutrition, is supported by CWS through CASM.
    honduras_hawkey_20110614_276.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
  • 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
  • Omar Antonio López in San Antonio Abajo, a participant in a CIEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_879.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_613.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
  • 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.”
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  • 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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Bananas growing on a CWS-supported project in  Carazo, Nicaragua
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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • 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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  • experiments in grafting fruit trees in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops.
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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.
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  • villagers pushing a boat out on a CWS-supported project for disaster preparedness on the atlantic coast of Honduras. The project helps avoids flooding and landslide disasters that have occured here in the past during the hurricane season.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Bananas growing on a CWS-supported project in  Carazo, Nicaragua
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  • 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.
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  • Quequisque, a root tuber, is grown in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops.
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  • Newly-planted bananas grow on Claudia Palacios' farm in Carazo. CIEETS has provided technical support to farmers through a CWS-supported project.
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  • 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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  • Grape vines grown in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops.
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  • Grape vines grown in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops.
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  • Pepper plants grown in Carazo as part of a CWS-supported program with CIEETS to help farmers diversify their crops.
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  • Bananas growing on a CWS-supported project in  Carazo, Nicaragua
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  • children help pushing a boat out on a CWS-supported project for disaster preparedness on the atlantic coast of Honduras. The project helps avoids flooding and landslide disasters that have occured here in the past during the hurricane season.
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  • 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”.
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  • Iris Mercedes Canales, René Camilo, René Bermúdez and Yarozca de los Angeles Bermúdez Canales, at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua
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  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
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  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
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  • Maria Sosa of CASM grafts gourmet cocoa to resistant stock. The trees are being used to reforest a watershed in an environmental crisis in Honduras, and the cocoa provides income for the local communities.
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  • Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “We have level curves here with 30 pitahaya, we have watermelon, squash and yuca in this area too. We’re doing an experiment here, to see what works best. I have a little bit of woodland with madero, quebracho, brazil, chocoagua, Guanacaste, eucalypts, pochote, and others, and I want to plant more, to protect the river, the water source, that’s what we’ve been taught, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve also planted a windbreak of oak, a big windbreak, and of course all the normal crops, but these are big changes”.
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  • Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “We have level curves here with 30 pitahaya, we have watermelon, squash and yuca in this area too. We’re doing an experiment here, to see what works best. I have a little bit of woodland with madero, quebracho, brazil, chocoagua, Guanacaste, eucalypts, pochote, and others, and I want to plant more, to protect the river, the water source, that’s what we’ve been taught, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve also planted a windbreak of oak, a big windbreak, and of course all the normal crops, but these are big changes”.
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