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  • Indigenous corn saved by Jesús Martínez “it’s best to  plant at least some indigenous corn and keep the seed, or you end up dependent on the seed companies".
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180310_262.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, members of the community meet for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. Here a group is setting up a new plot with drip-fed irrigation. The project is supported by the Evangelic Lutheran Church of America and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering. A successful crop of corn is being grown in the background.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1171.jpg
  • Cristobal Coc, indigenous Q'eqchi farmer and part of a World Renew programme in Guatemala, stands in a corn field in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. Drought linked to climate change has severely affected the crops in this area over the last seven years.
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  • Sebastian Cedillos, agricultural technician at FUNDES, a partner of ACT member LWR, inspects a farmers corn field during the current drought. In wide areas across El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, harvests have been completely destroyed by the drought causing enormous hardship for many thousands of poor subsistence farming families. The drought in this area is believed to be an effect of climate change.
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  • Jean Felix 's family seen through the 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 />
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Here Jean Felix works with a scythe cleaning around a young crop of corn.
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  • The corn mill in Concepción Actelá. People bring cooked maize to the mill where it is ground to make a dough for tortillas.
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  • A young woman leaves the mill after grinding her cooked corn into a dough for making tortillas. This is a routine at least once a day for every household. at least once a day for every household.
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  • corn saved for seed hangs from a ceiling in rural Honduras
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  • Corn sprouting on the cob before being harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
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  • Corn sprouting on the cob before being harvested in Copán. CASM works with the indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán who have lost approximately 90% of their bean crop and about half their maize crop after heavy rains from hurricanes Eta and Iota, leaving them without the basic food they need to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_68...jpg
  • Purple maize or sweetcorn, near San Juan, Intibucá.
    Honduras_Hawkey_20120105_003.jpg
  • Two elderly ladies enjoy 'elotes locos' or crazy maize in Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador
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  • A healthy crop of flowering maize In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua. Here the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. Maryan Alvarez helps put a drip-fed irrigation system in place. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1215-2.jpg
  • A church and landscape near San Nicolás, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • A young Maya Chortí woman degrains maize in her kitchen in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1372.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1358.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1314.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. Here two women who are part of a community group make 'camellones' or camel humps, to grow vegetables. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1191.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. Isabel Gómez is part of the community group growing food for the whole community. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1140.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1147.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1085.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1040.jpg
  • Zulema Lopez in San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua. The community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_0965.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_0879.jpg
  • In the village of La Carbonera, near Somoto, Nicaragua, the persistent drought has left left the soil dust-dry, and crops have failed year after year through lack of rain. Here, a community farming project will be irrigation-fed in a project supported by ELCA. Here Exequiel Viscay walks through a failing crop of maize waiting for the project to start.
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  • Maya Ixil boys during a meeting in Turanza, Nebaj, Guatemala.<br />
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Staff from CWS-partner organisations were meeting in Nebaj, Guatemala, to share experience and learning on food security and nutrition in the region. The boys families take part in a food production programme run by CIEDEG.
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  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1103.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
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  • Dulce de panela, or raw sugar, is processed traditionally in this trapiche or sugar mill in rural San Vicente, El Salvador
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  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1079.jpg
  • Children play under a healthy, irrigation-fed, crop of maize In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua. Here the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_0844.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1341.jpg
  • In northern Nicaragua, farming has been severely affected by lack of rainfall over recent years. The prolonged drought has dried up rivers and wells and has destroyed most crops before they get to harvest. ELCA is supporting the Nicaraguan Lutheran Church, ILFE, with community-based farming responses to this crisis, where small plots are farmed in groups, sometimes with irrigation, in an attempt to provide the basic nutritional requirements for the participating families. Here villagers near Somotillo work on a community plot supported by ELCA.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1073.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
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  • Landscape near San Nicolás, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • José, a farmer from San Luis, Somoto. In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1323.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1224.jpg
  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. The project is supported by ELCA and provides the community groups with a solar-powered pump that brings up water from 45m deep and a drip irrigation system for the cultivation of maize that they grow collectively in the village, as a response to the prolonged drought and many failed harvests the region is suffering.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1166.jpg
  • In the village of La Carbonera, near Somoto, Nicaragua, the persistent drought has left left the soil dust-dry, and crops have failed year after year through lack of rain. Here, a community farming project will be irrigation-fed in a project supported by ELCA. Here Exequiel Viscay walks through a failing crop of maize waiting for the project to start.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_0767.jpg
  • A typical rural household in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala.
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  • Jesus the Seed Saver<br />
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Jesús Martínez, Quiscamote, Santa Elena, La Paz<br />
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"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_188.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_179.jpg
  • A woman sells corn on the cob and corn bread in a street corner in Diriamba, Carazo
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  • Juan García Gonzalez working on his corn field  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, Mr Garcia is part of the Indigenous Council here. 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
  • Miguel Pérez Ramírez working on his corn field  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, Mr Perez heads the Indigenous Council here. 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
  • Juan García Gonzalez working on his corn field  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, Mr Garcia is part of the Indigenous Council here. 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
  • Juan García Gonzalez working on his corn field  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, Mr Garcia is part of the Indigenous Council here. 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
  • José Misael Selva Umaña, promotor of agriculture in Santa Elena, Carazo. monitors the rainfall in his area of Carazo. On one day recently some 220mm of rain fell (more than 8.5 inches) in one day. A good harvest of corn can be had from 150mm over three months, getting more than that on one day alone is disastrous, top soil is washed away, and nutrients are leached from the soil, but also young plants are killed, and then the soil is saturated and fungal infections of plants occur."
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  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
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“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
  • 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
  • Early morning, a young man sleeps on a chair at a corn mill in the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
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  • Avilio Reyes lives in El Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras. <br />
Because of dought, he's lost his main corn harvest four years in a row. "this harvest is already lost" he said "we'll put the cows in here to feed, at least they'll eat the bit of growth that there was".
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  • A failed crop of corn that died from lack of water, near Nacaome, southern Honduras.
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  • Maya-Chortí people celebrate a religious ceremony in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
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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.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • Arnulfo López Gómez 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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  • Children wait for their father in a corn field in Concepción Actelá.
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  • Saem Sokhey is a woman farmer in Cambodia, she makes a living by growing corn for sale locally.
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  • A boy plays in a stream that feeds the Pedro Cubas river in Pedro Cubas quilombo.<br />
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Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
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Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
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When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
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The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
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The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
<br />
Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
<br />
The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170914_131.jpg
  • Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
<br />
Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
<br />
When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
<br />
The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
<br />
The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
<br />
Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
<br />
The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170914_109.jpg
  • Early morning, a young man sleeps on a chair at a corn mill in the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Huembes_20140821_00...jpg
  • Dilma Chávez is a small-scale coffee farmer in San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. She is a member of the Montaña Verde cooperative. “On my farm and my husbands farm we have a lot of fissures on the farm, and some landslides. The roads are badly damaged, some of them you can’t pass. We are having to fix the small roads into the farms ourselves, there’s no help from the government. The coffee is suffering a lot from fungal infections, ojo de gallo, leaf rust, and it’s very hard to control with so much moisture, it will probably spread and gets worse. This year we’ll have a big drop in production, everyone in the coop will suffer, it’s big. And that affects us all economically. And some houses have been affected, in the two villages called El Zapote. We grow most of our own food here, and all those crops have also be affected, the corn, the beans, with so much rain we’ve lost a lot of that too.”
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201207_94...jpg
  • José Misael Selva Umaña, promotor of agriculture in Santa Elena, Carazo. monitors the rainfall in his area of Carazo. On one day recently some 220mm of rain fell (more than 8.5 inches) in one day. A good harvest of corn can be had from 150mm over three months, getting more than that on one day alone is disastrous, top soil is washed away, and nutrients are leached from the soil, but also young plants are killed, and then the soil is saturated and fungal infections of plants occur."
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_829.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
  • Early morning, a woman removes ground corn from the mill at the Huembes Market in Managua, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Huembes_20140815_20...jpg
  • Jesus Defender of Water<br />
<br />
Jesús Salazar, Suyapa, Pespire<br />
<br />
"I am the coordinator of COCOPDDHHEP. It’s our orgnisation for the defence of human rights and our shared resources, the water and woods here. We began organising to defend ourselves four years ago.<br />
<br />
We need to defend the water. It’s scarce here in the south, and it’s our life. We depend on it to live.<br />
<br />
In 2003 we began to hear these promises, that the road was going to be improved and the church would be built, if we let the mining company in. The municipal authorities, our representatives in the National Congress, they all supported it. They promoted it. But, that’s not development for us. That’s the sale of our territory to transnational companies. It’s against our will and against our interests. They can always find an ally in the communities - people who will help them. They give them some money and brainwash them, but these people bring long-term difficulties for our communities, which will affect our children and grandchildren. It will poison them and rob them of water. We need to be very clear about this - they are bringing death.<br />
<br />
They came here with an environmental licence, which they got fraudulently, with the support of members of Congress and the mayor. But because we were already organised, there was a defence. We have 19 groups organised in the villages around here, and we have lawyers. We won’t let them in. They’ve tried. There have been confrontations and injuries. Twice those rats have come here with their machines. They even came at Christmas because they thought it’d be easier.<br />
<br />
They came one evening when we were planting corn. There weren’t many men here. Everyone was in the fields planting. Women with babies stood in front of the excavators to stop them coming in. Then, with mobile phones, we mobilised more than 300 people to come quickly with machetes and sticks, and we stood in front of the machines and we all raised our machetes in the air. The men they sent were
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180812_5061.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_2730.jpg
  • Maya-Chortí people celebrate a religious ceremony in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
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  • Maya-Chortí people celebrate a religious ceremony in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_231.jpg
  • Maya-Chortí people celebrate a mass in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
    honduras_hawkey_20170810_210.jpg
  • Two girls 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.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • Vilma Carranza Suchite 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.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • Lucía López Pérez  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.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • Lucía López Pérez  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.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Jocotan_LWF_2016072...jpg
  • Miguel Pérez Ramírez in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, Mr Pérez head the Indigenous Council here. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • People working in a corn field in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • Saem Sokhey is a woman farmer in Cambodia, she makes a living by growing corn for sale locally.
    Cambodia_Hawkey_World_Renew_2015_203...jpg
  • Saem Sokhey is a woman farmer in Cambodia, she makes a living by growing corn for sale locally.
    Cambodia_Hawkey_World_Renew_2015_160...jpg
  • Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
<br />
Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
<br />
When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
<br />
The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
<br />
The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
<br />
Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
<br />
The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170914_532.jpg
  • A girl jumps into the Pedro Cubas river.<br />
<br />
Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
<br />
Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
<br />
When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
<br />
The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
<br />
The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
<br />
Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
<br />
The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170914_415.jpg
  • Antonio Jorge, a leader of the Pedro Cubas quilombo.<br />
<br />
Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
<br />
Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
<br />
When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
<br />
The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
<br />
The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
<br />
Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
<br />
The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170914_124.jpg
  • Mrs Jorge is a leader of the Pedro Cubas quilombo.<br />
<br />
Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
<br />
Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
<br />
When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
<br />
The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
<br />
The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
<br />
Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
<br />
The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170914_118.jpg
  • Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
<br />
Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
<br />
When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
<br />
The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
<br />
The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
<br />
Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
<br />
The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170914_104.jpg
  • Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
<br />
Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
<br />
When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
<br />
The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
<br />
The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
<br />
Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
<br />
The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170914_084.jpg
  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_765.jpg
  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_741.jpg
  • Marcos, a Q'eqchi man cleans his corn field of weeds using a machete. Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • A boy in the Pedro Cubas river.<br />
<br />
Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
<br />
Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
<br />
When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
<br />
The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
<br />
The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
<br />
Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
<br />
The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
    Brazil_Hawkey_water_WCC_20170914_503.jpg
  • Dilma Chávez is a small-scale coffee farmer in San Luis Planes, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. She is a member of the Montaña Verde cooperative. “On my farm and my husbands farm we have a lot of fissures on the farm, and some landslides. The roads are badly damaged, some of them you can’t pass. We are having to fix the small roads into the farms ourselves, there’s no help from the government. The coffee is suffering a lot from fungal infections, ojo de gallo, leaf rust, and it’s very hard to control with so much moisture, it will probably spread and gets worse. This year we’ll have a big drop in production, everyone in the coop will suffer, it’s big. And that affects us all economically. And some houses have been affected, in the two villages called El Zapote. We grow most of our own food here, and all those crops have also be affected, the corn, the beans, with so much rain we’ve lost a lot of that too.”
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201207_94...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
  • Jesus García walks through a crop of corn he lost during a prolonged drought caused by climate change in Langue, Valle, Honduras
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180810_4458.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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
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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 />
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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 />
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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."
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  • Musicians play in a Maya-Chortí ceremony in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
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