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  • At the Vasudha Training and Research Centre Farm in Jamniya,  organic farming techniques are taught to farmers and demonstration plots prove organic techniques.<br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
    India_Hawkey_Madhya_Pradesh_20170112...jpg
  • Poreh Mansaray, centre, with her husband and son working on their peanut field. World Renew partner Christian Extension services has been helping the Mansaray family learn new farming techniques to improve their crops and make their farming more productive.<br />
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The small village of Yirafilaia, Koinadugu is in a remote district of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.,
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • A pair of bullocks pull a cart in a village in Madhya Pradesh that farms Fairtrade cotton. Fairtrade has run several projects in the village to train farmers in organic techniques to improve quality and output of their farming production, in cotton and food production.<br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
    India_Hawkey_Madhya_Pradesh_20170113...jpg
  • Cristian Gusmán Merlos, young coffee farmer, manager of Fundación Entre Mujeres, community organiser, farming and Fairtrade coffee advisor. Cristian works with the Central De Cooperativas 'Las Diosas' - the Godesses - that has 270 women farmer members.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Las Diosas_20140811...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
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Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
<br />
Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
<br />
Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
<br />
Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
<br />
Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
<br />
Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
<br />
Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
<br />
Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
<br />
Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
<br />
Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Rice farming in the district of Koinadugu in a remote area of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. <br />
<br />
Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping villages in this area with agricultural trainining to improve farm outputs and with sanitation, clean water supply and post-harvest support to protect harvests.
    SierraLeone_Hawkey_WorldRenew_201706...jpg
  • Michael Chega at his farm near Thika, Nairobi, Kenya. His successful farming has been boosted with loans from the microfinance organisation ECLOF that do not require collateral. Michael produces 800 broilers a month and 30 pigs in 6 months. His loan at the time of the photograph was for 95,000 Kenyan Shilligs (around USD1300). When asked what comes first... the chicken or the egg, he replies "the loan".
    kenya_hawkey_20061021_013.jpg
  • Juan Gonzalez is a member of the Cuna Chorti coffee farming coop. His ripe coffee cherries are ready to be picked on his coffee farm. This year, instead of ripening over three months, all the coffee ripened in one month, and farmers are putting this down to climate change. This has caused  problems as there isn't enough labour to pick the coffee in one month, so some coffee is being lost. Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CunaChorti_20120307...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
  • 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
  • Cristian Gusmán Merlos, young coffee farmer, manager of Fundación Entre Mujeres, community organiser, farming and Fairtrade coffee advisor. Cristian works with the Central De Cooperativas 'Las Diosas' - the Godesses - that has 270 women farmer members.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Las Diosas_20140811...jpg
  • Children do the Surya Namaskar, the Sun Salutation, during an assembly at the Vasudha Vidya Vihar school. The school was built with Fairtrade premium funds in 2009. Over 600 students attend the school, which offers education up to 11th standard, primarily for Fairtrade cotton farmers. <br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
    India_Hawkey_Madhya_Pradesh_20170112...jpg
  • Kailash Patidar, Fairtrade cotton farmer, stands beside his well, made to this size to capture the brief monsoon and then pump it using drip irrigation, a technque supported by Fairtrade projects.<br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
    India_Hawkey_Madhya_Pradesh_20170113...jpg
  • The Vasudha Vidya Vihar school was built with Fairtrade premium funds in 2009. Over 600 students attend the school, which offers education up to 11th standard. <br />
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Kirti Sen works in the school kitchen.<br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
    India_Hawkey_Madhya_Pradesh_20170112...jpg
  • Early in the morning, a relative of Khushboo throws straw from a truck onto the roof of the house, to feed the cows with later.<br />
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Khushboo's father is a member of the Fairtrade-certified Vasudha cotton producing coop.<br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
    India_Hawkey_Madhya_Pradesh_20170113...jpg
  • A worker stands by a dyeing maching in Pratibha.<br />
<br />
Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
    India_Hawkey_Madhya_Pradesh_20170111...jpg
  • Coffee bushes in the mist on a farm at Loma Linda, Retalhuleu. Manos Campesinas is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Quetzaltenango and Retalhuleu, Guatemala
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Manos_Campesinas_20...jpg
  • Tomasa Gonzalez picks coffee on the farm. Federación de Cooperativas Agrícolas de Productores de Café de Guatemala, FEDECOCAGUA is a Fairtrade-certified second-level cooperative based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_FEDECOGAGUA_2012032...jpg
  • Coffee bushes in the mist on a farm at Loma Linda, Retalhuleu. Manos Campesinas is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Quetzaltenango and Retalhuleu, Guatemala
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Manos_Campesinas_20...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
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Manos_Campesinas_20...jpg
  • Mariela Bran pics coffee on the farm. Federación de Cooperativas Agrícolas de Productores de Café de Guatemala, FEDECOCAGUA is a Fairtrade-certified second-level cooperative based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_FEDECOGAGUA_2012032...jpg
  • A young woman works picking coffee on a coffee farm in Intibucá, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Fairtrade_20190213_5...jpg
  • A young woman picks coffee on a COCATRAL farm
    Honduras_Hawkey_COCATRAL_20120130_03...jpg
  • A young woman picks coffee on a COCATRAL farm
    Honduras_Hawkey_COCATRAL_20120130_05...jpg
  • A woman picks coffee at a COCATRAL farm. COCATRAL, Cooperativa Cafetalera Agricola Trascerros Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Nueva Frontera, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COCATRAL_20120130_12...jpg
  • A woman picks coffee at a COCATRAL farm. COCATRAL, Cooperativa Cafetalera Agricola Trascerros Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Nueva Frontera, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COCATRAL_20120130_14...jpg
  • 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.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COMISAJUL_20120210_0...jpg
  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190618_857.jpg
  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190618_792.jpg
  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190618_778.jpg
  • Fany Pastora Pineda, 24, picking coffee at a COMISAJUL farm. In this area of Honduras the hillsides are particularly steep and are located at around 1600 metres above sea level. COMISAJUL, Cooperativa Mixta San Juancito Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COMISAJUL_20120210_0...jpg
  • Coffee farmer Santiago Baltazar Guiñones Montejo on his coffee farm at El Mirador, Jacaltenango, portrait. Rio Azul Cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Rio_Azul_20120315_0...jpg
  • 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 />
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Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
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Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Finca La Alemania, Sucre. Rogelio was killed on the farm a month before the photos were taken. Some projects in production are supported on the farm by LWR.
    colombia_hawkey_20100701_324.jpg
  • girls run through a coffee farm. UCA Unidad Santa Maria de Pantasma, Jinotega, Nicaragua, is a fairtrade-certified coop. UCA Unidad Santa Maria de Pantasma, Jinotega, Nicaragua, is a Fairtrade-certified coop.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_UCA_Pantasma_201112...jpg
  • Yorlin Sanchez, 19, is picking coffee on a farm at El Balsamo that is part of the Arca de Noe Coop. The coffee-producing coop Arca de Noe in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua, is Fairtrade-certified.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Arca_de_Noe_2011111...jpg
  • Maritza Sanchez, 22, is picking coffee on a farm at El Balsamo that is part of the Arca de Noe Coop. The coffee-producing coop Arca de Noe in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua, is Fairtrade-certified.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Arca_de_Noe_2011111...jpg
  • 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 lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
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Here Yuliana guides her mule with two coffee sacks ready for processing.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • 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 lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
<br />
Here Yuliana guides her mule with two coffee sacks ready for processing.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Maritza Sanchez and takes a short rest from picking coffee on a farm at El Balsamo that is part of the Arca de Noe Coop. The coffee-producing coop Arca de Noe in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua, is fairtrade-certified. Fairtrade is an alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between producers and consumers. Fairtrade offers producers a better deal and improved terms of trade. This allows them the opportunity to improve their lives and plan for their future. Fairtrade offers consumers a powerful way to reduce poverty through their every day shopping. www.flocentroamerica.net
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Arca_de_Noe_2011111...jpg
  • Yorlin Sanchez, 19, is picking coffee on a farm at El Balsamo that is part of the Arca de Noe Coop. The coffee-producing coop Arca de Noe in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua, is Fairtrade-certified.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Arca_de_Noe_2011111...jpg
  • 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 lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
<br />
Here Yuliana guides her mule with two coffee sacks ready for processing.
    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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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Here Yuliana uses her mule "Cotolo" to move bananas. The bananas are grown to shade the coffee on her farm.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
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  • Julia Rosario Salinas Cruz, founder of the Fundación Entre Mujeres. She produces organic coffee and basic grains. Since leaf rust hit her farm her production has dropped from 60 quintals to less than half a quintal. Drought has also affected her farm and region badly, basic grains have been lost, cattle are losing weight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • Heaviliy laden branches of ripe coffee ready to be picked at a CORCASAN farm in Nicaragua.
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  • Heaviliy laden branches of ripe coffee ready to be picked at a CORCASAN farm in Nicaragua.
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  • A coffee farmer stands in lush vegetation of his coffee farm on the Cuna Chorti cooperative, a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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  • A hillside farm with Antigua Guatemala in the distance. ADIPROVA is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer based in Santa María de Jesus, Saquetepequez, Guatemala.
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  • Fidelina Xoc, coop board member at ADIPROVA, digs with a hoe and plants seeds on a farm. ADIPROVA is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer based in Santa María de Jesus, Saquetepequez, Guatemala.
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  • Green coffee cherries on coffee plants on an Andes Coop coffee farm in Antioquia, Colombia.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia
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  • Farmhands on top of their harvest of cassava on a tractor trailer. Finca La Alemania, Sucre, Colombia. The farm had been subject to threats and their community leader Rogelio Martinez was assassinated by masked men a month prior.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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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.
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  • In San Luis, Somoto, Nicaragua, the community meets for Farm School days with staff from the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua. Staff member Noel Sevilla speaks to the community group. 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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  • José Aquiles, owner of the El Sentido coffee farm and member of the UCPCO coop, in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua. José has two workers and cultivates a small area of coffee as well as basic grains for his family. Here José shows the difference between 'pinto' coffee - not completely ripe - and fully ripe coffee. Only the fully ripe coffee is used in top quality specialty coffee. The coop is a certified Fairtrade producer.
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  • On the finca San Antonio, a coffee farm that is a member of CORCASAN coop, Hilton Garcia, 17, shows a handful of the first ripe coffee cherries.
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  • On the finca San Antonio, a coffee farm that is a member of CORCASAN coop, Agustin Castro picks the first ripe coffee cherries.
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  • Heaviliy laden branches of ripe coffee ready to be picked at a CORCASAN farm in Nicaragua.
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  • Heaviliy laden branches of ripe coffee ready to be picked at a CORCASAN farm in Nicaragua.
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  • Teyling Maria Membreño picks cocoa on her family's farm. Teyling's father is a member of the CECOSEMAC coop. Central de Cooperativas de Servicios Múltiples “Aromas del Café”, CECOSEMAC, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee-producing coop based in Matagalpa and Jinotega, Nicaragua.
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  • Katy Valeska Paguaga Salinas and her father Don Pedro Antonio Paguaga Miranda work on their diversified farm that has several acres of coffee. Katy and her father are members of the Caja Rural Coop, San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua. The coop is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • A scenic view of a coffee farm wth shade from bananas in Jinotega. Aldea Global is a Fairtrade-certified coop that produces coffee in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua.
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  • Green coffee cherries on coffee plants on an Andes Coop coffee farm in Antioquia, Colombia.
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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 />
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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 />
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Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
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