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  • Khady Waylie, a cotton farmer in Sitaoulé Bananding, throws freshly picked cotton onto a heap. The harvest is a celebration that marks the end of a season's hard work. Khady grows cotton that is certified Fairtrade and exported by FNPC.
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  • Farmers work with a tractor on the harvest of cassava on a farm on Finca La Alemania, Sucre, Colombia
    colombia_hawkey_20100701_302.jpg
  • Freshly hulled black beans in Léogane. A World Renew sponsored program in the area has improved harvests and the ability of local farmers to withstand the long periods of drought that are affecting the area.
    Haiti_Hawkey_WorldRenew_20170616_105...jpg
  • Kantaben Parbatbhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<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.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • Amarabhai Charda (left) and Charabar Charda (right) Fairtrade-certified cotton farmers in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<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.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_587.jpg
  • Mamtuben Papybhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<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.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_251.jpg
  • hantiben Sarabhai Charda a Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer picking cotton in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<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.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_663.jpg
  • Mamtuben Papybhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<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.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_343-2.jpg
  • Kantaben Parbatbhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<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.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_258.jpg
  • A cotton farmer holds a handful of raw cotton in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<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.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_017.jpg
  • Mamtuben Papybhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<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.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_058.jpg
  • hantiben Sarabhai Charda a Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer picking cotton in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<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.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_178.jpg
  • A woman picks coffee on a farm associated with the Maya Ixil coop in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Maya_Ixil_20120312_...jpg
  • Standing crops, particularly of maize and beans, have been lost across Honduras because of the floods caused by hurricanes Eta and iota. Some rotted, some dried out, some sprouted, and the losses will have a huge impact among thousands of subsistence farmers who rely on the crops to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201203_88...jpg
  • A young woman picks coffee on a farm associated with the Maya Ixil coop in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Maya_Ixil_20120312_...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
  • 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 farmer finishes bundling a sack of cassava on Finca La Alemania, Sucre.
    colombia_hawkey_20100701_301.jpg
  • Standing crops, particularly of maize and beans, have been lost across Honduras because of the floods caused by hurricanes Eta and iota. Some rotted, some dried out, some sprouted, and the losses will have a huge impact among thousands of subsistence farmers who rely on the crops to survive.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201203_88...jpg
  • North Korean postcard photographed in Pyongyang showing food production by a woman in military uniform.
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  • A young woman picks coffee on a farm associated with the Maya Ixil coop in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Maya_Ixil_20120312_...jpg
  • A young mother looks after her baby on a break from coffee picking. 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
  • Maria Cristina Forero Ramirez, 35, picking some of the tomatoes she produces in her garden as part of a project that supports 55 IDP women to produce their own food. The project helps women who are displaced by violence to produce food for their families and for sale. The project is supported by ACT member LWF.
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  • A man cuts sugar on a sugar cane plantation, near Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil
    Brazil_Hawkey_MST_20091124_072.jpg
  • A woman picks coffee on a farm associated with the Maya Ixil coop in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala. Maya Ixil farmers are from the surrounding communities of San Juan Cotzal, San Gaspar Chajul and Santa Maria Nebaj.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Maya_Ixil_20120312_...jpg
  • Jesús García Hernández, in the village of Los Horcones, Langue, Valle, Honduras. "The community is affected by a prolonged drought. We’ve just lost another harvest, it’s gone on for nine years. Winters used to be good, we’d have rain. Now we have years where there’s no water in the streams, the rivers, the wells. We need water, without it we suffer. The crops need water, without it they don’t grow and we don’t get a crop, it’s simple. The trees keep the humidity, but man has chopped down the trees. Now the trees that are left are drying up”. <br />
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Jesús stands next to an empty rainwater harvesting tank at his house.
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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 stands at a water tank, built with support of World Renew, that is used to harvest rainwater during the rainy season for use in the dry season.
    Haiti_Hawkey_WorldRenew_20170616_103...jpg
  • Children play in the forest and collect blackberries and blueberries to eat at La Jarcia, near Intibucá. Their mothers were arrested and put in jail for defending the forest and indigenous rights.
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  • There are thousands of landslides in the north, centre and west of Honduras. Here in San Luis Planes the coffee harvest is affected by damaged roads that prevent coffee pickers from getting to farms and prevent transport of coffee to mills. The coffee harvest is also damaged from coffee cherries falling with heavy rain, root rot and many fungal diseases like leaf rust that prosper in humidity.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_91...jpg
  • 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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  • Jesus Struggling with Climate Change<br />
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Jesús García Hernández, Los Horcones, Langue, Valle<br />
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"The drought has been going on for ten years. It’s due to climate change. Winters were good before. But now we’ve had years without water here. We’ve got dry streams, rivers and wells. We lose our seeds and fertilizers; we even lose our hope sometimes.<br />
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There are families here who haven’t had a harvest for ten years. We’ve all just lost another harvest. We prepared the soil, put in the seeds and fertilizers and, when the first bit of rain came, the plants began growing. Then the rain stopped. We got nothing. Then the rain came again but it was too late. After ten years of drought the people here have used up their reserves and there’s desperation.<br />
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We’ve had to deepen the wells, but they still dry up. The water is going down - it’s climate change.<br />
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A lot of people have left the area. Some go to work in other places as labourers or security guards or cleaners. And some risk the journey to the States. What else is there to do?"
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  • There are thousands of landslides in the north, centre and west of Honduras. Here in San Luis Planes the coffee harvest is affected by damaged roads that prevent coffee pickers from getting to farms and prevent transport of coffee to mills. The coffee harvest is also damaged from coffee cherries falling with heavy rain, root rot and many fungal diseases like leaf rust that prosper in humidity.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_92...jpg
  • There are thousands of landslides in the north, centre and west of Honduras. Here in San Luis Planes the coffee harvest is affected by damaged roads that prevent coffee pickers from getting to farms and prevent transport of coffee to mills. The coffee harvest is also damaged from coffee cherries falling with heavy rain, root rot and many fungal diseases like leaf rust that prosper in humidity.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_92...jpg
  • There are thousands of landslides in the north, centre and west of Honduras. Here in San Luis Planes the coffee harvest is affected by damaged roads that prevent coffee pickers from getting to farms and prevent transport of coffee to mills. The coffee harvest is also damaged from coffee cherries falling with heavy rain, root rot and many fungal diseases like leaf rust that prosper in humidity.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_91...jpg
  • There are thousands of landslides in the north, centre and west of Honduras. Here in San Luis Planes the coffee harvest is affected by damaged roads that prevent coffee pickers from getting to farms and prevent transport of coffee to mills. The coffee harvest is also damaged from coffee cherries falling with heavy rain, root rot and many fungal diseases like leaf rust that prosper in humidity.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_91...jpg
  • There are thousands of landslides in the north, centre and west of Honduras. Here in San Luis Planes the coffee harvest is affected by damaged roads that prevent coffee pickers from getting to farms and prevent transport of coffee to mills. The coffee harvest is also damaged from coffee cherries falling with heavy rain, root rot and many fungal diseases like leaf rust that prosper in humidity.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_91...jpg
  • There are thousands of landslides in the north, centre and west of Honduras. Here in San Luis Planes the coffee harvest is affected by damaged roads that prevent coffee pickers from getting to farms and prevent transport of coffee to mills. The coffee harvest is also damaged from coffee cherries falling with heavy rain, root rot and many fungal diseases like leaf rust that prosper in humidity.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_91...jpg
  • 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_179.jpg
  • There are thousands of landslides in the north, centre and west of Honduras. Here in San Luis Planes the coffee harvest is affected by damaged roads that prevent coffee pickers from getting to farms and prevent transport of coffee to mills. The coffee harvest is also damaged from coffee cherries falling with heavy rain, root rot and many fungal diseases like leaf rust that prosper in humidity.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201206_91...jpg
  • Jesus the Seed Saver<br />
<br />
Jesús Martínez, Quiscamote, Santa Elena, La Paz<br />
<br />
"I don’t remember how old I am. I remember the war. We heard it all happening - the bombs and machine guns, but they never arrived here. Thank God.<br />
<br />
Jesus’ son, who is also a Jesus - Jesús Martínez Vásquez - shows us some multi-coloured corn they are saving for seed. These are open-pollinated varieties of indigenous corn. <br />
<br />
These are seeds that are passed down from generation to generation. Farmers have done this for thousands of years. We save the seeds from the best heads of corn, then we plant them again, when the moon is right, and we’ll get a good harvest of strong corn like the harvest before, as long as it rains.<br />
 <br />
We grow black corn, yellow and white, and mixed. We know that the seeds from here like our mountain soil. Corn has grown here in these mountains for hundreds of years. The first problem with the commercial corn seed is that you have to buy them. Well, we don’t have the money. It is very productive, but only the first year, then the second year it’s weaker. It’s so weak it’s not worth saving the seed for the second year.  <br />
<br />
If you want to keep on getting the big hybrid yield, then you need to buy more seed the next year, and the fertilizer and the insecticide. And if you don’t keep your indigenous seeds, then you just have to buy the hybrid seed. So, the best thing is to grow at least some indigenous corn, and keep the seed, or you end up dependent on the seed companies and giving your money to them. Anyway, this is what we use for the tortillas. We eat these with beans, an egg, avocado. We grow two types of beans here, a tiny one and Chinapopo. That’s a tasty bean."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180310_217.jpg
  • Jesus the Seed Saver<br />
<br />
Jesús Martínez, Quiscamote, Santa Elena, La Paz<br />
<br />
"I don’t remember how old I am. I remember the war. We heard it all happening - the bombs and machine guns, but they never arrived here. Thank God.<br />
<br />
Jesus’ son, who is also a Jesus - Jesús Martínez Vásquez - shows us some multi-coloured corn they are saving for seed. These are open-pollinated varieties of indigenous corn. <br />
<br />
These are seeds that are passed down from generation to generation. Farmers have done this for thousands of years. We save the seeds from the best heads of corn, then we plant them again, when the moon is right, and we’ll get a good harvest of strong corn like the harvest before, as long as it rains.<br />
 <br />
We grow black corn, yellow and white, and mixed. We know that the seeds from here like our mountain soil. Corn has grown here in these mountains for hundreds of years. The first problem with the commercial corn seed is that you have to buy them. Well, we don’t have the money. It is very productive, but only the first year, then the second year it’s weaker. It’s so weak it’s not worth saving the seed for the second year.  <br />
<br />
If you want to keep on getting the big hybrid yield, then you need to buy more seed the next year, and the fertilizer and the insecticide. And if you don’t keep your indigenous seeds, then you just have to buy the hybrid seed. So, the best thing is to grow at least some indigenous corn, and keep the seed, or you end up dependent on the seed companies and giving your money to them. Anyway, this is what we use for the tortillas. We eat these with beans, an egg, avocado. We grow two types of beans here, a tiny one and Chinapopo. That’s a tasty bean."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180310_201.jpg
  • Jesus the Seed Saver<br />
<br />
Jesús Martínez, Quiscamote, Santa Elena, La Paz<br />
<br />
"I don’t remember how old I am. I remember the war. We heard it all happening - the bombs and machine guns, but they never arrived here. Thank God.<br />
<br />
Jesus’ son, who is also a Jesus - Jesús Martínez Vásquez - shows us some multi-coloured corn they are saving for seed. These are open-pollinated varieties of indigenous corn. <br />
<br />
These are seeds that are passed down from generation to generation. Farmers have done this for thousands of years. We save the seeds from the best heads of corn, then we plant them again, when the moon is right, and we’ll get a good harvest of strong corn like the harvest before, as long as it rains.<br />
 <br />
We grow black corn, yellow and white, and mixed. We know that the seeds from here like our mountain soil. Corn has grown here in these mountains for hundreds of years. The first problem with the commercial corn seed is that you have to buy them. Well, we don’t have the money. It is very productive, but only the first year, then the second year it’s weaker. It’s so weak it’s not worth saving the seed for the second year.  <br />
<br />
If you want to keep on getting the big hybrid yield, then you need to buy more seed the next year, and the fertilizer and the insecticide. And if you don’t keep your indigenous seeds, then you just have to buy the hybrid seed. So, the best thing is to grow at least some indigenous corn, and keep the seed, or you end up dependent on the seed companies and giving your money to them. Anyway, this is what we use for the tortillas. We eat these with beans, an egg, avocado. We grow two types of beans here, a tiny one and Chinapopo. That’s a tasty bean."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180310_188.jpg
  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Santiago Oaxaca and Moises Mancía are  indigenous Maya Chortí men who lives in Carrizalón, Honduras. Here they inspect a batch of beans that has been harvested, from a whole year's harvest they say there's enough good beans to make a single meal.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201129_64...jpg
  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Prudencio Fernández, El Zapote, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “There are two big landslides, one each side of the road where we are. All the other families have gone from here now, they’ve left. I’m only here to harvest the coffee I can, I’m picking on my own. A lot of the coffee dropped while it was green, there was a lot of rain, amazing amount of rain, so the leaves and coffee dropped. But there’s some left and I’m picking it before I leave. There has been some help here, people have come to give us food, but the government hasn’t even come to take a look.”
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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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  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men thresh beans in the hope of rescuing perhaps 10% of the harvest, but most of the beans have sprouted in the pods and can't be dried and saved
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  • 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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  • A farmer in Tubas district, northern West Bank, shows how his crop of wheat was stunted, the rains failed this year, so the grains didn't develop, it wasn't even worth putting petrol in the tractor to harvest it, so he put his flock of sheep to graze it.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Portraits from La Carbonera, Somoto, Nicaragua. This region 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.
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  • Portraits from La Carbonera, Somoto, Nicaragua. This region 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.
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  • Duvelkis Mercedes Delgado Hernandez, 13, in La Carbonera, Somoto, Nicaragua. This region 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.
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  • This is Apolonia Palma, who takes part in a community plot in her village, El Rodeíto. 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Portraits from La Carbonera, Somoto, Nicaragua. This region 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.
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  • The whole family help out at harvest time in Léogane, Haiti.
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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.
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  • Chortí men in the mountains of 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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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya-Chortí farmer rests against an adobe wall. 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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  • 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.
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  • A boy at the school  in Las Flores, Jocotán, Guatemala, a Maya Chortí territory. This part of the country is highly affected by climate change. Rainfall patterns in the last seven years have been unreliable, with too little or too irregular rainfall to get harvest of corn and beans. Many farmers have lost the seeds they plant. As the drought seems unending, the farmers diversify their income searching for employment as day labourers, travelling often for months at a time.
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  • Maricelda Yaneth Mendoza Carrillos, administrator, speaks to a coffee farmer at ASOBAGRI about expected delivery dates for his coffee harvest.
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  • Funds from the Fairtrade Premium pay for a technical team to go from farm to farm providing technical assistance to farmers on how to improve the volume and quality of their harvest, how to reduce their costs and increase their profits, how to eliminate environmentally damaging byproducts.<br />
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Here some of the technical team take part in a health and safety course, which they will then impart in meetings of coop members across the region.
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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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  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men thresh beans in the hope of rescuing perhaps 10% of the harvest, but most of the beans have sprouted in the pods and can't be dried and saved
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  • José Misael Selva Umaña, is promotor of agriculture in Carazo. “I’ve planted fruit trees, I monitor the rainfall in the area, and I work with the hives, I’m a meloponiculturalist. I have several hives already, this is a good initiative with the bees, it’s medicinal, the honey. And that’s a good thing for the family, and also it’s something we sell, we make some money from it. I’ve got oranges, lemons, bitter lemons, and ornamentals to attract the bees, so the bees don’t go very far. I also have calala and other fruit. Some of the hives are in logs, cut straight from the trees, others are in technified wooden boxes, that help us divide them and harvest the honey without disturbing them much. I have different types of bees too. And, we’ve got a good well from the project too, it’s clean”.
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  • 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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  • José Misael Selva Umaña, is promotor of agriculture in Carazo. “I’ve planted fruit trees, I monitor the rainfall in the area, and I work with the hives, I’m a meloponiculturalist. I have several hives already, this is a good initiative with the bees, it’s medicinal, the honey. And that’s a good thing for the family, and also it’s something we sell, we make some money from it. I’ve got oranges, lemons, bitter lemons, and ornamentals to attract the bees, so the bees don’t go very far. I also have calala and other fruit. Some of the hives are in logs, cut straight from the trees, others are in technified wooden boxes, that help us divide them and harvest the honey without disturbing them much. I have different types of bees too. And, we’ve got a good well from the project too, it’s clean”.
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  • Portrait in Butiama district, northern Tanzania, on James Nyamtengera's farm. Mr Nyamtengera has been an early adopter of Conservation Agriculture, and the results have been dramatic increases in his harvest.
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  • James Nyamtengera has been an early adopter of Conservation Agriculture, and the results have been dramatic increases in his harvest.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • A farmer in Tubas district, northern West Bank, shows how his crop of wheat was stunted, the rains failed this year, so the grains didn't develop, it wasn't even worth putting petrol in the tractor to harvest it, so he put his flock of sheep to graze it.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Volunteers from the Lutheran Vocation Training Centre harvest olives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
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  • Portraits from La Carbonera, Somoto, Nicaragua. This region 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.
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  • Portrait from La Carbonera, Somoto, Nicaragua. This region 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.
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  • Duvelkis Mercedes Delgado Hernandez, 13, in La Carbonera, Somoto, Nicaragua. This region 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.
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