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  • Finca San Juancito coffee farm in Guacamaya, Francisco Morazan, Honduras, seen from the opposite mountain. This coffee farm is associated with COMISAJUL coop. COMISAJUL, Cooperativa Mixta San Juancito Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
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  • Mountain scene at Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras where the coffee-producing coop COAQUIL is based
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  • The mountains around Santiago de Puringla, La Paz, Honduras, where coffee is grown by members of the COMSA cooperative.
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  • The mountains around Santiago de Puringla, La Paz, Honduras, where coffee is grown by members of the COMSA cooperative.
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  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
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  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Jesus_20180322_3499.jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
    Honduras_Hawkey_WorldRenew_Olancho_2...jpg
  • The valley view from lower Masaguara, on the road to the COAQUIL cooperative in Intibucá.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Fairtrade_20190215_4...jpg
  • A forested hill between Huehuetenango and Barillas, Guatemala.
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  • A boy stands by a pond on a hillside.
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  • Mountain view from the Santo Domingo Coop, Telpaneca, Nicaragua. The coop is a certified organic Fairtrade producer.
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  • Mountain view from the Santo Domingo Coop, Telpaneca, Nicaragua. The coop is a certified organic Fairtrade producer.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Santo_Domingo_20111...jpg
  • Early morning mountain scene in Intibucá.
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  • Mountain scenery in the Valle del Ensueño, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • A view over the mountains from the CAFEL wet mill. Cooperativa Fraternidad Ecológica Ltda, CAFEL is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in San Fernando, Ocotepeque, Honduras.
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  • Snow-capped mountains of the altiplano are the backdrop for a street scene in La Paz
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  • Mountains and clouds near Barrandillales where PAOLT farmers produce coffee. PAOLT is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Trinidad, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
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  • Mountains and clouds near Barrandillales where PAOLT farmers produce coffee. PAOLT is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Trinidad, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_PAOLT_20120131_137.jpg
  • A scenic view of mountains from Cacaopera, Morazán, El Salvador
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  • The mountains around El Zancudo, Honduras, looking down into Morazán, El Salvador.
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  • The scenery in Caquipec, La Tinta, Alta Verapaz, is mountainous and forested. APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_APODIP_20120310_012.jpg
  • Landscape near San Nicolás, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • The CAFEL coffee mill in Honduras sits on top of a hill near the Guatemala border. Cooperativa Fraternidad Ecológica Ltda, CAFEL is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in San Fernando, Ocotepeque, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_CAFEL_20120204_001.jpg
  • Las montañas de Jinotega, cultivadas con café, maíz, frijol, quiquisque, y arboles frutales
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  • Las montañas de Jinotega, cultivadas con café, maíz, frijol, quiquisque, y arboles frutales
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190620_549.jpg
  • Las montañas de Jinotega, cultivadas con café, maíz, frijol, quiquisque, y arboles frutales
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  • La Cruz in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • A landscape in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya Chortí territory. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • A panoramic view of the Rio Azul area in Jacaltenango, Guatemala.
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  • Isabel Gutierrez, 42, near her new home in Silvania. Isabel is part of a project for 55 women IDPs in the Silvania district, to grow food for their families and for sale. The project is supported by ACT-member LWF.
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  • A landscape in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya Chortí territory. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Lourdes López Vásquez, 16, with her baby Saida, 9 months old. <br />
<br />
“The family was evacuated at midnight, that was during hurricane Eta. We heard thundering noises coming from underground, from inside the mountain” said Lourdes, “We were all evacuated, it was dark, we all felt sad”. Lourdes’ family is one of 60 families affected by the landslide in the village of El Zapote, San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara. That night six houses were destroyed by a landslide there and another 55 were made unsafe by subsidence, and have now been declared uninhabitable. The region of Santa Bárbara, with steep mountain slopes that are ideal for coffee growing, is particularly prone to landslides. Fairtrade-certified cooperative Montaña Verde is based in San Luis Planes and coop members are all affected by climate change, hurricanes and landslides. Serious problems with access to farms, loss of land, loss of topsoil, washed-out nutrients, the early fall of unripe cherries, leaf drop, root rot, and a proliferation of fungal diseases all affect the producers, as well as the loss of their corn and bean crops that they rely on as their staple food.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_94...jpg
  • Lourdes López Vásquez, 16, with her baby Saida, 9 months old. <br />
<br />
“The family was evacuated at midnight, that was during hurricane Eta. We heard thundering noises coming from underground, from inside the mountain” said Lourdes, “We were all evacuated, it was dark, we all felt sad”. Lourdes’ family is one of 60 families affected by the landslide in the village of El Zapote, San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara. That night six houses were destroyed by a landslide there and another 55 were made unsafe by subsidence, and have now been declared uninhabitable. The region of Santa Bárbara, with steep mountain slopes that are ideal for coffee growing, is particularly prone to landslides. Fairtrade-certified cooperative Montaña Verde is based in San Luis Planes and coop members are all affected by climate change, hurricanes and landslides. Serious problems with access to farms, loss of land, loss of topsoil, washed-out nutrients, the early fall of unripe cherries, leaf drop, root rot, and a proliferation of fungal diseases all affect the producers, as well as the loss of their corn and bean crops that they rely on as their staple food.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_94...jpg
  • Jesus the Seed Saver<br />
<br />
Jesús Martínez, Quiscamote, Santa Elena, La Paz<br />
<br />
"I don’t remember how old I am. I remember the war. We heard it all happening - the bombs and machine guns, but they never arrived here. Thank God.<br />
<br />
Jesus’ son, who is also a Jesus - Jesús Martínez Vásquez - shows us some multi-coloured corn they are saving for seed. These are open-pollinated varieties of indigenous corn. <br />
<br />
These are seeds that are passed down from generation to generation. Farmers have done this for thousands of years. We save the seeds from the best heads of corn, then we plant them again, when the moon is right, and we’ll get a good harvest of strong corn like the harvest before, as long as it rains.<br />
 <br />
We grow black corn, yellow and white, and mixed. We know that the seeds from here like our mountain soil. Corn has grown here in these mountains for hundreds of years. The first problem with the commercial corn seed is that you have to buy them. Well, we don’t have the money. It is very productive, but only the first year, then the second year it’s weaker. It’s so weak it’s not worth saving the seed for the second year.  <br />
<br />
If you want to keep on getting the big hybrid yield, then you need to buy more seed the next year, and the fertilizer and the insecticide. And if you don’t keep your indigenous seeds, then you just have to buy the hybrid seed. So, the best thing is to grow at least some indigenous corn, and keep the seed, or you end up dependent on the seed companies and giving your money to them. Anyway, this is what we use for the tortillas. We eat these with beans, an egg, avocado. We grow two types of beans here, a tiny one and Chinapopo. That’s a tasty bean."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180310_179.jpg
  • Lourdes López Vásquez, 16, with her baby Saida, 9 months old. <br />
<br />
“The family was evacuated at midnight, that was during hurricane Eta. We heard thundering noises coming from underground, from inside the mountain” said Lourdes, “We were all evacuated, it was dark, we all felt sad”. Lourdes’ family is one of 60 families affected by the landslide in the village of El Zapote, San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara. That night six houses were destroyed by a landslide there and another 55 were made unsafe by subsidence, and have now been declared uninhabitable. The region of Santa Bárbara, with steep mountain slopes that are ideal for coffee growing, is particularly prone to landslides. Fairtrade-certified cooperative Montaña Verde is based in San Luis Planes and coop members are all affected by climate change, hurricanes and landslides. Serious problems with access to farms, loss of land, loss of topsoil, washed-out nutrients, the early fall of unripe cherries, leaf drop, root rot, and a proliferation of fungal diseases all affect the producers, as well as the loss of their corn and bean crops that they rely on as their staple food.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_94...jpg
  • Lourdes López Vásquez, 16.<br />
<br />
“The family was evacuated at midnight, that was during hurricane Eta. We heard thundering noises coming from underground, from inside the mountain” said Lourdes, “We were all evacuated, it was dark, we all felt sad”. Lourdes’ family is one of 60 families affected by the landslide in the village of El Zapote, San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara. That night six houses were destroyed by a landslide there and another 55 were made unsafe by subsidence, and have now been declared uninhabitable. The region of Santa Bárbara, with steep mountain slopes that are ideal for coffee growing, is particularly prone to landslides. Fairtrade-certified cooperative Montaña Verde is based in San Luis Planes and coop members are all affected by climate change, hurricanes and landslides. Serious problems with access to farms, loss of land, loss of topsoil, washed-out nutrients, the early fall of unripe cherries, leaf drop, root rot, and a proliferation of fungal diseases all affect the producers, as well as the loss of their corn and bean crops that they rely on as their staple food.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_94...jpg
  • Jesus the Seed Saver<br />
<br />
Jesús Martínez, Quiscamote, Santa Elena, La Paz<br />
<br />
"I don’t remember how old I am. I remember the war. We heard it all happening - the bombs and machine guns, but they never arrived here. Thank God.<br />
<br />
Jesus’ son, who is also a Jesus - Jesús Martínez Vásquez - shows us some multi-coloured corn they are saving for seed. These are open-pollinated varieties of indigenous corn. <br />
<br />
These are seeds that are passed down from generation to generation. Farmers have done this for thousands of years. We save the seeds from the best heads of corn, then we plant them again, when the moon is right, and we’ll get a good harvest of strong corn like the harvest before, as long as it rains.<br />
 <br />
We grow black corn, yellow and white, and mixed. We know that the seeds from here like our mountain soil. Corn has grown here in these mountains for hundreds of years. The first problem with the commercial corn seed is that you have to buy them. Well, we don’t have the money. It is very productive, but only the first year, then the second year it’s weaker. It’s so weak it’s not worth saving the seed for the second year.  <br />
<br />
If you want to keep on getting the big hybrid yield, then you need to buy more seed the next year, and the fertilizer and the insecticide. And if you don’t keep your indigenous seeds, then you just have to buy the hybrid seed. So, the best thing is to grow at least some indigenous corn, and keep the seed, or you end up dependent on the seed companies and giving your money to them. Anyway, this is what we use for the tortillas. We eat these with beans, an egg, avocado. We grow two types of beans here, a tiny one and Chinapopo. That’s a tasty bean."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180310_217.jpg
  • Jesus the Seed Saver<br />
<br />
Jesús Martínez, Quiscamote, Santa Elena, La Paz<br />
<br />
"I don’t remember how old I am. I remember the war. We heard it all happening - the bombs and machine guns, but they never arrived here. Thank God.<br />
<br />
Jesus’ son, who is also a Jesus - Jesús Martínez Vásquez - shows us some multi-coloured corn they are saving for seed. These are open-pollinated varieties of indigenous corn. <br />
<br />
These are seeds that are passed down from generation to generation. Farmers have done this for thousands of years. We save the seeds from the best heads of corn, then we plant them again, when the moon is right, and we’ll get a good harvest of strong corn like the harvest before, as long as it rains.<br />
 <br />
We grow black corn, yellow and white, and mixed. We know that the seeds from here like our mountain soil. Corn has grown here in these mountains for hundreds of years. The first problem with the commercial corn seed is that you have to buy them. Well, we don’t have the money. It is very productive, but only the first year, then the second year it’s weaker. It’s so weak it’s not worth saving the seed for the second year.  <br />
<br />
If you want to keep on getting the big hybrid yield, then you need to buy more seed the next year, and the fertilizer and the insecticide. And if you don’t keep your indigenous seeds, then you just have to buy the hybrid seed. So, the best thing is to grow at least some indigenous corn, and keep the seed, or you end up dependent on the seed companies and giving your money to them. Anyway, this is what we use for the tortillas. We eat these with beans, an egg, avocado. We grow two types of beans here, a tiny one and Chinapopo. That’s a tasty bean."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180310_201.jpg
  • Jesus the Seed Saver<br />
<br />
Jesús Martínez, Quiscamote, Santa Elena, La Paz<br />
<br />
"I don’t remember how old I am. I remember the war. We heard it all happening - the bombs and machine guns, but they never arrived here. Thank God.<br />
<br />
Jesus’ son, who is also a Jesus - Jesús Martínez Vásquez - shows us some multi-coloured corn they are saving for seed. These are open-pollinated varieties of indigenous corn. <br />
<br />
These are seeds that are passed down from generation to generation. Farmers have done this for thousands of years. We save the seeds from the best heads of corn, then we plant them again, when the moon is right, and we’ll get a good harvest of strong corn like the harvest before, as long as it rains.<br />
 <br />
We grow black corn, yellow and white, and mixed. We know that the seeds from here like our mountain soil. Corn has grown here in these mountains for hundreds of years. The first problem with the commercial corn seed is that you have to buy them. Well, we don’t have the money. It is very productive, but only the first year, then the second year it’s weaker. It’s so weak it’s not worth saving the seed for the second year.  <br />
<br />
If you want to keep on getting the big hybrid yield, then you need to buy more seed the next year, and the fertilizer and the insecticide. And if you don’t keep your indigenous seeds, then you just have to buy the hybrid seed. So, the best thing is to grow at least some indigenous corn, and keep the seed, or you end up dependent on the seed companies and giving your money to them. Anyway, this is what we use for the tortillas. We eat these with beans, an egg, avocado. We grow two types of beans here, a tiny one and Chinapopo. That’s a tasty bean."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180310_188.jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia
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  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201128_55...jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201128_55...jpg
  • A young man, Roberto Hernandez, runs over settling debris in the La Reina disaster to rescue a cat. On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201125_54...jpg
  • Mountain scenery in the Valle del Ensueño, Huehuetenango, where ASOBAGRI farmers are based.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia, here some are intercropped with bananas, partly for shade and partly to have another crop from the same land. Currenty the price for bananas on the market is so low that small-scale banana production is not economically viable as a business, but much of the bananas are consumed locally.
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  • Yuliana Cardona, 21 lives on the high mountain slopes of San Pedro Abajo, Santa Rita in Antioquia, Colombia.<br />
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Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana's father is one of 3,500 members of the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.  <br />
<br />
Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
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  • Yuliana Cardona pushes back the sliding roof cover on her house to expose coffee that is drying.<br />
<br />
Yuliana Cardona, 21 lives on the high mountain slopes of San Pedro Abajo, Santa Rita in Antioquia, Colombia.<br />
<br />
Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana's father is one of 3,500 members of the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201128_55...jpg
  • Exhausted, a group of people from La Reina carry what they've managed to recover from the debris of the landslide that destroyed their village. On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201125_54...jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201125_54...jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201125_54...jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.Here people evacuate from surrounding houses as fears for new landslides continued.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201125_51...jpg
  • Elieser Valle, el Pacayito, Colinas. Elisier is a member of the COCASJOL coffee cooperative. “With Eta our land began to subside, to sink, but when Iota came and the rain, the land began to slip away, down the mountain. Most of the coffee farm is affected, and it’s affecting the house, it’s what worries us most at the moment, the house is on the edge of the landslide now. We don’t sleep well, when the hurricanes were in full swing we had to stay in another house for a while, we were too scared to sleep here. Thank God we are okay, but if this carries on we’ll have to abandon the house. We aren’t the only ones, there are other families in the same situation. We are in danger of losing everything, the coffee farm and the house.“
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201208_95...jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201125_46...jpg
  • Misty mountain scene with vegetation at a coffee farm in Loma Linda, Retalhuleu. Manos Campesinas is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Quetzaltenango and Retalhuleu, Guatemala
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  • Young coffee bushes on a steep mountain slope in Antioquia. Bushes begin to give a small harvest after three years, these bushes are just one year old.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia, here some are intercropped with bananas, partly for shade and partly to have another crop from the same land. Currenty the price for bananas on the market is so low that small-scale banana production is not economically viable as a business, but much of the bananas are consumed locally.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain slopes of Antioquia.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Yuliana Cardona, 21 lives on the high mountain slopes of San Pedro Abajo, Santa Rita in Antioquia, Colombia.<br />
<br />
Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana's father is one of 3,500 members of the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.  <br />
<br />
Here Yuliana uses her mule "Cotolo" to move bananas. The bananas are grown to shade the coffee on her farm.
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  • Yuliana Cardona, 21 lives on the high mountain slopes of San Pedro Abajo, Santa Rita in Antioquia, Colombia.<br />
<br />
Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana's father is one of 3,500 members of the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.  <br />
<br />
Here Yuliana rakes over coffee that is drying on the roof of her house.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia
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  • Yuliana Cardona on the porch of her farm house near Andes, Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Yuliana Cardona, 21 lives on the high mountain slopes of San Pedro Abajo, Santa Rita in Antioquia, Colombia.<br />
<br />
Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana's father is one of 3,500 members of the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia, here some are intercropped with bananas, partly for shade and partly to have another crop from the same land. Currenty the price for bananas on the market is so low that small-scale banana production is not economically viable as a business, but much of the bananas are consumed locally.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201128_57...jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201128_61...jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201125_53...jpg
  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201125_52...jpg
  • An image shot through the car window of the mountains in San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara, Honduras.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_93...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
  • 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
  • Martha Marak carries firewood home in Nongladew, a small village in the mountainous indigenous area of Meghalaya, in Northeast India.
    India_Hawkey_Meghalaya_20170406_326.jpg
  • At Martha Marak's house, different types of bananas that she has grown lean against the wall of her house near the kitchen. Some are for eating ripe, others are for cooking. Nongladew is a small village in the mountainous indigenous area of Meghalaya, in Northeast India.
    India_Hawkey_Meghalaya_20170406_069.jpg
  • Jean Felix Delice helped set up a local development organisation for farmers in the mountains of Léogane, Haiti. His group then joined with another 16 organisations in FOTADEL one of World Renew's strongest partners in Haiti. Jean Felix's organisation, with support from World Renew, works on improving how farmers deal with persistent lack of rain and the impact of drought, and has worked on humanitarian relief and emergency programs to re-establish agricultural production when seeds are lost in failed crops.
    Haiti_Hawkey_WorldRenew_20170616_126...jpg
  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
<br />
Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2708.jpg
  • a group of Lenca children sit with an old woman on a rock in the mountains of Intibucá
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180313_1174.jpg
  • A woman picks coffee on a farm associated with the Maya Ixil coop in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
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  • A young woman picks coffee on a farm associated with the Maya Ixil coop in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
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  • Mountains are striped with landslides across a broad swathe of Honduras after extremely heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota overloaded the soil with water.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201116_09...jpg
  • Juanito carries three racimes of Filipino cultivar bananas on his mother's farm in the mountains above El Guabo. The Filipino cultivar is better adapted to the conditions in the mountains. The farm is part of the ASOGUABO association, and exports Fairtrade-certified organic bananas all over the world.
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The new Caracas Metrocable system, a gondola lift system integrated with the city's public transport network, which provides quick and safe transportation for those who live in the neighbourhoods situated on Caracas' mountainous regions.
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  • World Renew is working in Nongladew through its partner NEICORD. Nongladew is a small village in the mountainous indigenous area of Meghalaya, in Northeast India with a population of Garo and Khasi indigenous people. The Garo are one of the last remaining matrilineal societies in the world.<br />
<br />
Martha Marak lives here with her children, Lening, John and Critika, who go to the local school.<br />
<br />
The school is underfunded and the roof was recently badly damaged by a severe hail storm, leaving it looking like a huge colander. When it rains the school has to close.
    India_Hawkey_Meghalaya_20170407_838.jpg
  • Boys run through a puddle in front of a school room in the Mancotal community, built with Fairtrade premium through the grassroots cooperative called Enrique Bermúdez. The Enrique Bermúdez Cooperative is part of the FLO-certified cooperative UCASUMAN, Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarias de Servicios Unidos de Mancotal, and is based in the mountainous area of Jinotega in northern Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_UCASUMAN_20111012_0...jpg
  • In the Rubén Dario Cooperative, member of UCASUMAN, the fairtrade premium has been used to build houses for the poorest people in the Yanque 1 community. This house was built with fairtrade support. Roberto Carlos Ramos Chavarría sits on Juana María Ramos lap. Juana is the owner of the house. The coop, UCASUMAN, Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarias de Servicios Unidos de Mancotal, is based in the mountainous area of Jinotega in northern Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_UCASUMAN_20111012_0...jpg
  • Jean Felix Delice helped set up a local development organisation for farmers in the mountains of Léogane, Haiti. His group then joined with another 16 organisations in FOTADEL one of World Renew's strongest partners in Haiti. Jean Felix's organisation, with support from World Renew, works on improving how farmers deal with persistent lack of rain and the impact of drought, and has worked on humanitarian relief and emergency programs to re-establish agricultural production when seeds are lost in failed crops.<br />
<br />
Here Jean Felix works with a scythe cleaning around a young crop of corn.
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  • Jean Felix Delice helped set up a local development organisation for farmers in the mountains of Léogane, Haiti. His group then joined with another 16 organisations in FOTADEL one of World Renew's strongest partners in Haiti. Jean Felix's organisation, with support from World Renew, works on improving how farmers deal with persistent lack of rain and the impact of drought, and has worked on humanitarian relief and emergency programs to re-establish agricultural production when seeds are lost in failed crops.<br />
 <br />
Here Jean Felix stands at a water tank, built with support of World Renew, that is used to harvest rainwater during the rainy season for use in the dry season.
    Haiti_Hawkey_WorldRenew_20170616_103...jpg
  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
<br />
Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180319_2750.jpg
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