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  • a young farmer holds a small plant ready for transplanting in Cambodia
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  • Inside the West Bank, there are dozens of wells, water treatment plants and pumping stations that pump water straight into Israel and the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but leaving inadequate allocations for the Palestinians.<br />
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In the West Bank daily consumption of water per capita for domestic, urban, and industrial use is just 73 litres, but as low as 20 litres in some places. In Israeli towns daily consumption is 242 litres per capita. <br />
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The World Health Organization and other international bodies recommend 100 litres of water per capita per day as the minimum quantity for basic consumption. <br />
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This amount includes, in addition to domestic use, consumption in hospitals, schools, businesses, and other public institutions. Palestinian daily consumption is one-third less than the recommended quantity. <br />
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This inequality reflects a broader policy of discrimination against the Palestinians.
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  • Excavating machinery in the main pit at the Marlin gold mine, Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Canadian company, Goldcorp.
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  • Excavating machinery in the main pit at the Marlin gold mine, Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Canadian company, Goldcorp.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Marlin_mine_gold_20...jpg
  • Excavating machinery in the main pit at the Marlin gold mine, Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Canadian company, Goldcorp.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Marlin_mine_gold_20...jpg
  • Excavating machinery in the main pit at the Marlin gold mine, Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Canadian company, Goldcorp.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Marlin_mine_gold_20...jpg
  • Excavating machinery in the main pit at the Marlin gold mine, Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Canadian company, Goldcorp.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Marlin_mine_gold_20...jpg
  • Workers at the ADIPROVA processing centre work most of the night preparing mangetout peas for export. ADIPROVA is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer based in Santa María de Jesus, Saquetepequez, Guatemala.
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  • Workers at the ADIPROVA processing centre work most of the night preparing mangetout peas for export. ADIPROVA is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer based in Santa María de Jesus, Saquetepequez, Guatemala.
    guatemala_hawkey_20120328_2187.jpg
  • Santos Filadelfo Padilla, 17<br />
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El programa es de apoyar a retornados. Yo llegué hasta la ciudad de México. De allí me deportaron. Yo iba en el autobús, y subieron, no eran policías sino de la migración. Otra gente les contaron a ellos quizás, y subieron. Me bajaron del bus, me llevaron a la garita, y allí me detuvieron. Dormí tres días allí. Y de allí me mandaron a la frontera con Mexico y Guatemala. Me tuvieron allí otros dos días. De allí me regresaron hasta aquí, a San Pedro Sula. Me llevaron al centro de retornados, para menores, hay un montón de camas allí en el Albergue Belén, allí estuve. <br />
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Eso fue hace un año en diciembre. Salí el día 13 de diciembre, ya el 14 iba por Guatemala. Se me quedan los detalles pegados. <br />
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Decidí irme por la pobreza. Uno sufre económicamente. No hay trabajos, no hay empleo. Y tengo bastantes amigos que si llegaron allí, en los estado unidos. Yo iba hacía Carolina del Norte, de mis amistades que están allí, allí están casi todos. Y hay otros en Texas.<br />
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Hay muchas historias de horror. Hay gente que les puede secuestrar o algo. Y hay gente que sufre en el camino porque no tiene que comer. No hay nadie tal vez que les aconseje antes de ir, y van a sufrir en el camino. <br />
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Aquí en Juticalpa tengo familia, soy de afuera, pero tengo familia aquí, y aquí me hablaron de la Federación, que estaban apoyando a migrantes retornados. <br />
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La ayuda consiste en capacitación para mecánica y soldadura. Y con herramientas. Voy a trabajar en mecánica pesada, camiones. Hacen las capacitaciones aquí cerca. <br />
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La vida de mi familia es bastante triste. Perdimos mi papá cuando tenía un año. Nos quitaron terrenos, la casa, quedamos sin nada. Cuando yo tenía siete salí de la escuela y empezé a trabajar, para ayudar a sostener mis hermanos. No teníamos nada.<br />
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Nos han enseñado como hacer el trabajo, cobrar, hacer inventarios. Pienso, con las herramientas que me van a dar, poner mi propio taller aquí en Juticalpa.<br />
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Sin es
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  • Luis Anibal Vera, coffee farmer at home in his garden. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Manizales on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Mirian Alvarez and her children on a farm associated with PRODECOOP coop, in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua.
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  • Workers at the ADIPROVA processing centre work most of the night preparing mangetout peas for export. ADIPROVA is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer based in Santa María de Jesus, Saquetepequez, Guatemala.
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  • Workers at the ADIPROVA processing centre work most of the night preparing mangetout peas for export. ADIPROVA is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer based in Santa María de Jesus, Saquetepequez, Guatemala.
    guatemala_hawkey_20120328_2199.jpg
  • Workers at the ADIPROVA processing centre work most of the night preparing mangetout peas for export. ADIPROVA is a Fairtrade-certified vegetable producer based in Santa María de Jesus, Saquetepequez, Guatemala.
    guatemala_hawkey_20120328_2184.jpg
  • Colombian coffee grown in Caldas, Colombia, has the extraordinary characteristic of growing three crops a year. Here ripe cherries, green cherries and flowers are seen on a single bush. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Tomasa Mendez Morales and Tomasa Morales Chom, dressed in huipiles, till the soil with hoes to plant a crop of mangetout beans. The women are members of CORCI. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_006.jpg
  • A Fairtrade coffee nursery run by Central de Cooperativas in Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua. Varieties of coffee that are resistant to drought and leaf-rust are being promoted, though farmers are resistent to plant them if they don't taste as good as the more fragile varieties.
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  • A Fairtrade coffee nursery run by Central de Cooperativas in Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua. Varieties of coffee that are resistant to drought and leaf-rust are being promoted, though farmers are resistent to plant them if they don't taste as good as the more fragile varieties.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Las Diosas_20140811...jpg
  • Tomasa Mendez Morales and Tomasa Morales Chom, dressed in huipiles, till the soil with hoes to plant a crop of mangetout beans. The women are members of CORCI. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_017.jpg
  • Tomasa Mendez Morales and Tomasa Morales Chom, dressed in huipiles, till the soil with hoes to plant a crop of mangetout beans. The women are members of CORCI. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_015.jpg
  • Julio César Morales and Pedro Quino Chom dig a field with hoes to prepare it for planting a crop of mangetout beans. The men are members of the CORCI coop. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_048.jpg
  • Julio César Morales and Pedro Quino Chom dig a field with hoes to prepare it for planting a crop of mangetout beans. The men are members of the CORCI coop. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_034.jpg
  • Homero Morroquin shows an area of his farm recently planted with young coffee plants. Federación de Cooperativas Agrícolas de Productores de Café de Guatemala, FEDECOCAGUA is a Fairtrade-certified second-level cooperative based in Guatemala.
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  • Julio César Morales and Pedro Quino Chom dig a field with hoes to prepare it for planting a crop of mangetout beans. The men are members of the CORCI coop. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_052.jpg
  • Sebastiana Vásquez García with Maria Zulena Castillo Vásquez, 7, in a field of two-year old coffee plants. CIASFA, formerly CECAPRO, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in La Unión, Zacapa, Guatemala.
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  • Paula Bruna Velásquez Pastor tends tomato plants in Totonicapan. CWS supports local organisation CIEDEG to run a food production and nutrition programme in several areas of Guatemala. With their support, in Totonicapan in the indigenous highlands, villagers have increased their food production by using greenhouses and irrigation. FRB supports CWS to run a food security programme in the region.
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  • Gabriela Sibrian Hueso, 17, checks young coffee plants in the nursery at El Jabali coop. Cooperativa El Jabali is a certified Fairtrade coffee producer based in El Salvador.
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  • Suyen José Gonzalez Centeno, 18, (right) at El Corral, El Arenal, Aranjuez, Matagalpa. Suyen takes part in an agricultural training programme for young women run by the Solidaridad coop and paid for with the premium paid on fairtrade produce. The Solidaridad coffee-producing cooperative is based in Aranjuez, Matagalpa, with 63 producer members, including 19 women. The coop is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • Don Agustín López Rojas shows a coffee nursery in Loma Linda, Retalhuleu. Manos Campesinas is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Quetzaltenango and Retalhuleu, Guatemala
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  • Don Agustín López Rojas and Carlos Reynoso, general manager of the coop, look at coffee seedlings in a coffee nursery in Loma Linda, Retalhuleu. Manos Campesinas is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Quetzaltenango and Retalhuleu, Guatemala
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  • Tomasa Mendez Morales takes a rest from digging in a field. The women are members of CORCI. Coordinación Regional de Cooperativas Integrales, CORCI, is a certified Fairtrade producer based in Panimatzalam, San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá, Guatemala and produces vegetables such as mangetout peas.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CORCI_20120326_029.jpg
  • Andrés López García tends tomatoes in a community greenhouse. CWS supports local organisation CIEDEG to run a food production and nutrition programme in several areas of Guatemala. With their support, in Toj Mech village in the indigenous highlands, villagers have increased their food production by using greenhouses and irrigation. FRB supports CWS to run a food security programme in the region.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_food_security_20110...jpg
  • CWS supports local organisation CIEDEG to run a food production and nutrition programme in several areas of Guatemala. With their support, in Totonicapan in the indigenous highlands, villagers have increased their food production by using greenhouses and irrigation. FRB supports CWS to run a food security programme in the region.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_food_security_20110...jpg
  • Juan López García tends tomatoes in a community greenhouse in Toj Mech village in the indigenous highlands of Guatemala. Villagers here increased their food production by using greenhouses and irrigation.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_food_security_20110...jpg
  • El Mercado Roberto Huembes in Managua, Nicaragua, is a large market with some 7,500 sellers and other workers. It contains many sections such as fresh fruit and veg, meat, fish, iguanas, piñatas, spices, clothes and cooked food and has its own bus station.
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  • Maya-Chortí Jesus<br />
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Jesús Alberto Ramírez, Sinaí Chimichal, Copán<br />
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"Sinai is a holy place. It’s where Moses got the ten commandments. Chimichal is a tree that grows here. That’s why we called this place Sinaí Chimichal. We’ve been here since 1991, when we organised ourselves into a group. <br />
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We organised ourselves because we’d been enslaved by the landowner. We weren’t allowed to plant food to eat, or to put up a fence around our huts, or to wash clothes in the stream. They just made us work for whatever they wanted to pay us, and they’d treat us very badly.<br />
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Organising ourselves was hard on everyone. My brother, Nicolás Ramírez, was shot in the belly and killed. The rest of us were captured, tied up with rope, and taken to prison in Santa Rosa. After 20 days or so I was let out, but I was captured and sent to prison again. Our friend Rufino was also shot and captured and sent to prison without medical treatment.<br />
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While I was in prison the second time negotiations took place, and eventually we were given about 30 acres to plant food and build huts. And here we are.<br />
<br />
We’ve suffered a lot of poverty here. Most of the families here have lost a child. But since we’ve been able to plant food it’s a lot better and not so many children have died."
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  • Maya-Chortí Jesus<br />
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Jesús Alberto Ramírez, Sinaí Chimichal, Copán<br />
<br />
"Sinai is a holy place. It’s where Moses got the ten commandments. Chimichal is a tree that grows here. That’s why we called this place Sinaí Chimichal. We’ve been here since 1991, when we organised ourselves into a group. <br />
<br />
We organised ourselves because we’d been enslaved by the landowner. We weren’t allowed to plant food to eat, or to put up a fence around our huts, or to wash clothes in the stream. They just made us work for whatever they wanted to pay us, and they’d treat us very badly.<br />
<br />
Organising ourselves was hard on everyone. My brother, Nicolás Ramírez, was shot in the belly and killed. The rest of us were captured, tied up with rope, and taken to prison in Santa Rosa. After 20 days or so I was let out, but I was captured and sent to prison again. Our friend Rufino was also shot and captured and sent to prison without medical treatment.<br />
<br />
While I was in prison the second time negotiations took place, and eventually we were given about 30 acres to plant food and build huts. And here we are.<br />
<br />
We’ve suffered a lot of poverty here. Most of the families here have lost a child. But since we’ve been able to plant food it’s a lot better and not so many children have died."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180317_2144.jpg
  • Maya-Chortí Jesus<br />
<br />
Jesús Alberto Ramírez, Sinaí Chimichal, Copán<br />
<br />
"Sinai is a holy place. It’s where Moses got the ten commandments. Chimichal is a tree that grows here. That’s why we called this place Sinaí Chimichal. We’ve been here since 1991, when we organised ourselves into a group. <br />
<br />
We organised ourselves because we’d been enslaved by the landowner. We weren’t allowed to plant food to eat, or to put up a fence around our huts, or to wash clothes in the stream. They just made us work for whatever they wanted to pay us, and they’d treat us very badly.<br />
<br />
Organising ourselves was hard on everyone. My brother, Nicolás Ramírez, was shot in the belly and killed. The rest of us were captured, tied up with rope, and taken to prison in Santa Rosa. After 20 days or so I was let out, but I was captured and sent to prison again. Our friend Rufino was also shot and captured and sent to prison without medical treatment.<br />
<br />
While I was in prison the second time negotiations took place, and eventually we were given about 30 acres to plant food and build huts. And here we are.<br />
<br />
We’ve suffered a lot of poverty here. Most of the families here have lost a child. But since we’ve been able to plant food it’s a lot better and not so many children have died."
    Honduras_Hawkey_20180317_2140.jpg
  • Luis López Traña, Los Chilamates, El Gigante. “In the last couple of years, we’ve planted fruit trees, bananas and plantains, we’ve learned to make reservoirs to store rain water, we’ve learned to make organic compost for fertiliser, and we’ve learned about foliar sprays, that’s how to fertilise a plant by spraying the leaves, we’ve had quite a few workshops, and it helps us to use what we have on the farm, to economise, to save money, for example we can make insect repellents, to prevent plant disease, we can control disease, we’ve learned how to do that. That’s why I think this program is excellent. We are looking for local strategies, to resolve our problems, confront the problems we’re getting from climate change across the country. We’ve already had benefits from this project and we want to carry on, we are enthusiastic about it”.
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  • Workers at the APRAINORES processing plant in San Carlos Lempa, inside the clean room where the final product is sorted, cleaned, checked and bagged. APRAINORES is a primary producer association of over 60 families located near San Carlos Lempa, at the mouth of the Lempa River in El Salvador. Members are excombatents of the FMLN and subsistence farmers whose main cash income is from small cashew plantations. Together they own a processing plant employing around 60 workers for several months a year. All the cashew production is certified Fairtrade.
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  • Workers at the APRAINORES processing plant in San Carlos Lempa, inside the clean room where the final product is sorted, cleaned, checked and bagged. APRAINORES is a primary producer association of over 60 families located near San Carlos Lempa, at the mouth of the Lempa River in El Salvador. Members are excombatents of the FMLN and subsistence farmers whose main cash income is from small cashew plantations. Together they own a processing plant employing around 60 workers for several months a year. All the cashew production is certified Fairtrade.
    El_Salvador_Hawkey_APRAINORES_201108...jpg
  • Workers at the APRAINORES processing plant in San Carlos Lempa. APRAINORES is a primary producer association of over 60 families located near San Carlos Lempa, at the mouth of the Lempa River in El Salvador. Members are ex-combatents from the FMLN and subsistence farmers whose main cash income is from small cashew plantations. Together they own a processing plant employing around 60 workers for several months a year. All the cashew production is certified Fairtrade.
    El_Salvador_Hawkey_APRAINORES_201108...jpg
  • Workers at the APRAINORES processing plant in San Carlos Lempa. APRAINORES is a primary producer association of over 60 families located near San Carlos Lempa, at the mouth of the Lempa River in El Salvador. Members are ex-combatents from the FMLN and subsistence farmers whose main cash income is from small cashew plantations. Together they own a processing plant employing around 60 workers for several months a year. All the cashew production is certified Fairtrade.
    El_Salvador_Hawkey_APRAINORES_201108...jpg
  • Workers in the dyeing plant feed cotton fabrics into a dyeing machine.<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.
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  • A sign at Pratibha says 'Your safety mean the safety of your family'. The plant is run on international standards for Health and Safety and satisfies the Fairtrade guidelines and conditions. Another sign says "Photography and Videography Prohibited".<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_20170111...jpg
  • Sacks of cashew nuts inside the APRAINORES processing plant in San Carlos Lempa, in the clean room where the final product is sorted, cleaned, checked and bagged. APRAINORES is a primary producer association of over 60 families located near San Carlos Lempa, at the mouth of the Lempa River in El Salvador. Members are excombatents of the FMLN and subsistence farmers whose main cash income is from small cashew plantations. Together they own a processing plant employing around 60 workers for several months a year. All the cashew production is certified Fairtrade.
    El_Salvador_Hawkey_APRAINORES_201108...jpg
  • Alvaro Contreras, in charge of environmental control at the coffee mill at Farallones, runs a water processing plant that processes all the waste that comes out of the coffee mill. The waste from coffee mills is toxic and highly acidic and in most mills it is poured into the local water system without treatment. The treatment plant, which was built with Fairtrade Premium, runs for ten hours a day and turns all the poisonous waste water into pH neutral, filtered, clear and sterilised water before returning it to the water system. The solids are turned into compacted fertilisers and soil improvers for the farmers in the coop.
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  • A worker in the dyeing plant.<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
  • Ricardo Zavala at the NICARAOCOOP processing plant near Chinandega, Nicaragua. Ricardo is in charge of processing and quality. Here Ricardo inspects organic fairtrade sesame oil produced at the plant. NICARAOCOOP is a fairtrade-certified coop
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  • Workers at the APRAINORES processing plant in San Carlos Lempa, inside the clean room where the final product is sorted, cleaned, checked and bagged. APRAINORES is a primary producer association of over 60 families located near San Carlos Lempa, at the mouth of the Lempa River in El Salvador. Members are excombatents of the FMLN and subsistence farmers whose main cash income is from small cashew plantations. Together they own a processing plant employing around 60 workers for several months a year. All the cashew production is certified Fairtrade.
    El_Salvador_Hawkey_APRAINORES_201108...jpg
  • Hector Hermilo Perdomo, COCASJOL, Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “With the two hurricanes that hit Honduras, the water that fell with them has affected us very much. We’ve had landslides, lots of land has been wiped out, taking with it our crops. Just in my bit of land I’ve lost two manzanas (5 acres) that means 7000 coffee plants that I’ve lost, that I can’t recover. Also the production of those 7000 plants, that’s about 35 quintals of dry pergamino coffee that I’ve lost. All this means I’m in difficulties financially, it’s a big loss. Also I’ve lost the musacea, the bananas we plant alongside the coffee as shade, and we have a substantial trade of bananas to Guatemala, mainly the small banana we call ‘mínimo’, we’ve lost that too. We’ve got big difficulties with access to and from our farms here, after the main roads and minor roads were affected by landslides, and that has made it hard to get any product out to market, or get machinery in to fix things on our farms. I’ve had 14 small landslides, and two big ones on my own property.”
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  • Hector Hermilo Perdomo, COCASJOL, Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “With the two hurricanes that hit Honduras, the water that fell with them has affected us very much. We’ve had landslides, lots of land has been wiped out, taking with it our crops. Just in my bit of land I’ve lost two manzanas (5 acres) that means 7000 coffee plants that I’ve lost, that I can’t recover. Also the production of those 7000 plants, that’s about 35 quintals of dry pergamino coffee that I’ve lost. All this means I’m in difficulties financially, it’s a big loss. Also I’ve lost the musacea, the bananas we plant alongside the coffee as shade, and we have a substantial trade of bananas to Guatemala, mainly the small banana we call ‘mínimo’, we’ve lost that too. We’ve got big difficulties with access to and from our farms here, after the main roads and minor roads were affected by landslides, and that has made it hard to get any product out to market, or get machinery in to fix things on our farms. I’ve had 14 small landslides, and two big ones on my own property.”
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201208_96...jpg
  • Hector Hermilo Perdomo, COCASJOL, Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “With the two hurricanes that hit Honduras, the water that fell with them has affected us very much. We’ve had landslides, lots of land has been wiped out, taking with it our crops. Just in my bit of land I’ve lost two manzanas (5 acres) that means 7000 coffee plants that I’ve lost, that I can’t recover. Also the production of those 7000 plants, that’s about 35 quintals of dry pergamino coffee that I’ve lost. All this means I’m in difficulties financially, it’s a big loss. Also I’ve lost the musacea, the bananas we plant alongside the coffee as shade, and we have a substantial trade of bananas to Guatemala, mainly the small banana we call ‘mínimo’, we’ve lost that too. We’ve got big difficulties with access to and from our farms here, after the main roads and minor roads were affected by landslides, and that has made it hard to get any product out to market, or get machinery in to fix things on our farms. I’ve had 14 small landslides, and two big ones on my own property.”
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201208_96...jpg
  • Hector Hermilo Perdomo, COCASJOL, Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “With the two hurricanes that hit Honduras, the water that fell with them has affected us very much. We’ve had landslides, lots of land has been wiped out, taking with it our crops. Just in my bit of land I’ve lost two manzanas (5 acres) that means 7000 coffee plants that I’ve lost, that I can’t recover. Also the production of those 7000 plants, that’s about 35 quintals of dry pergamino coffee that I’ve lost. All this means I’m in difficulties financially, it’s a big loss. Also I’ve lost the musacea, the bananas we plant alongside the coffee as shade, and we have a substantial trade of bananas to Guatemala, mainly the small banana we call ‘mínimo’, we’ve lost that too. We’ve got big difficulties with access to and from our farms here, after the main roads and minor roads were affected by landslides, and that has made it hard to get any product out to market, or get machinery in to fix things on our farms. I’ve had 14 small landslides, and two big ones on my own property.”
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201208_96...jpg
  • Hector Hermilo Perdomo, COCASJOL, Colinas, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. “With the two hurricanes that hit Honduras, the water that fell with them has affected us very much. We’ve had landslides, lots of land has been wiped out, taking with it our crops. Just in my bit of land I’ve lost two manzanas (5 acres) that means 7000 coffee plants that I’ve lost, that I can’t recover. Also the production of those 7000 plants, that’s about 35 quintals of dry pergamino coffee that I’ve lost. All this means I’m in difficulties financially, it’s a big loss. Also I’ve lost the musacea, the bananas we plant alongside the coffee as shade, and we have a substantial trade of bananas to Guatemala, mainly the small banana we call ‘mínimo’, we’ve lost that too. We’ve got big difficulties with access to and from our farms here, after the main roads and minor roads were affected by landslides, and that has made it hard to get any product out to market, or get machinery in to fix things on our farms. I’ve had 14 small landslides, and two big ones on my own property.”
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  • In Claudia Palacios' home, recycled bottles are used to plant house plants and herbs.
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  • Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “We have level curves here with 30 pitahaya, we have watermelon, squash and yuca in this area too. We’re doing an experiment here, to see what works best. I have a little bit of woodland with madero, quebracho, brazil, chocoagua, Guanacaste, eucalypts, pochote, and others, and I want to plant more, to protect the river, the water source, that’s what we’ve been taught, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve also planted a windbreak of oak, a big windbreak, and of course all the normal crops, but these are big changes”.
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  • Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “We have level curves here with 30 pitahaya, we have watermelon, squash and yuca in this area too. We’re doing an experiment here, to see what works best. I have a little bit of woodland with madero, quebracho, brazil, chocoagua, Guanacaste, eucalypts, pochote, and others, and I want to plant more, to protect the river, the water source, that’s what we’ve been taught, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve also planted a windbreak of oak, a big windbreak, and of course all the normal crops, but these are big changes”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_949.jpg
  • Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “We have level curves here with 30 pitahaya, we have watermelon, squash and yuca in this area too. We’re doing an experiment here, to see what works best. I have a little bit of woodland with madero, quebracho, brazil, chocoagua, Guanacaste, eucalypts, pochote, and others, and I want to plant more, to protect the river, the water source, that’s what we’ve been taught, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve also planted a windbreak of oak, a big windbreak, and of course all the normal crops, but these are big changes”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_910.jpg
  • Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “We have level curves here with 30 pitahaya, we have watermelon, squash and yuca in this area too. We’re doing an experiment here, to see what works best. I have a little bit of woodland with madero, quebracho, brazil, chocoagua, Guanacaste, eucalypts, pochote, and others, and I want to plant more, to protect the river, the water source, that’s what we’ve been taught, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve also planted a windbreak of oak, a big windbreak, and of course all the normal crops, but these are big changes”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_893.jpg
  • Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “We have level curves here with 30 pitahaya, we have watermelon, squash and yuca in this area too. We’re doing an experiment here, to see what works best. I have a little bit of woodland with madero, quebracho, brazil, chocoagua, Guanacaste, eucalypts, pochote, and others, and I want to plant more, to protect the river, the water source, that’s what we’ve been taught, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve also planted a windbreak of oak, a big windbreak, and of course all the normal crops, but these are big changes”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_901.jpg
  • Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “We have level curves here with 30 pitahaya, we have watermelon, squash and yuca in this area too. We’re doing an experiment here, to see what works best. I have a little bit of woodland with madero, quebracho, brazil, chocoagua, Guanacaste, eucalypts, pochote, and others, and I want to plant more, to protect the river, the water source, that’s what we’ve been taught, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve also planted a windbreak of oak, a big windbreak, and of course all the normal crops, but these are big changes”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_895.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
Picture shows Keily with a quiquisque plant in her garden, a root vegetable like taro.<br />
Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
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  • Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “We have level curves here with 30 pitahaya, we have watermelon, squash and yuca in this area too. We’re doing an experiment here, to see what works best. I have a little bit of woodland with madero, quebracho, brazil, chocoagua, Guanacaste, eucalypts, pochote, and others, and I want to plant more, to protect the river, the water source, that’s what we’ve been taught, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve also planted a windbreak of oak, a big windbreak, and of course all the normal crops, but these are big changes”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_962.jpg
  • Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “We have level curves here with 30 pitahaya, we have watermelon, squash and yuca in this area too. We’re doing an experiment here, to see what works best. I have a little bit of woodland with madero, quebracho, brazil, chocoagua, Guanacaste, eucalypts, pochote, and others, and I want to plant more, to protect the river, the water source, that’s what we’ve been taught, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ve also planted a windbreak of oak, a big windbreak, and of course all the normal crops, but these are big changes”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_918.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
The photo shows Keily with a calala plant in her garden, a bit like a passion fruit.<br />
Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_784.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua.<br />
The picture shows Keily with a pitahaya plant in her garden.<br />
Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
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  • In Claudia Palacios' home, recycled bottles are used to plant house plants and herbs.
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  • Mining processing plant being built next to the Guapinol river, Colon, Honduras.
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  • Lisenia Ramon Sanmartín<br />
<br />
'I've been in ASOGUABO since 1998. The Association, since I joined, has always given support to women and men, equally. Women are in ASOGUABO, and we are treated the same as men. <br />
<br />
With Fairtrade, our bananas get us some extra support, for our workers, and we get stability, guarantees that we're going to sell our bananas at a fair and stable price, a price that it higher than the pay you get outside of Fairtrade. <br />
<br />
If you need support to improve your packing station, you get it, if you need a road to your packing station, you get it, if you need to imrprove your drainage, you get it.<br />
<br />
We also get support for our workers and children when it's term time, for studying. We've put in a water treatment plant in Las Casitas, for the people living there to have drinking water.<br />
<br />
And we are running projects like the plastic recycling, we are all recycling. Here we are all using the three Rs, reuse, recycle, and, the other R, haha.<br />
<br />
We are grateful to everyone for taking us into consideration. We don't want gifts, we want to work, with dignity, so, please buy our bananas!.'
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  • Ing. Carlos Elisalde, coordinator of environmental management, bio-fermentation and plastic recycling. <br />
<br />
Here he is working in the plastic recycling plant that ASOGUABO has established using the Fairtrade premium. All of the plastic on the ASOGUABO farms and packing stations is now recycled.
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  • SOCAAN is a Fairtrade-certified coop based in Adzope, Ivory Coast. It has nearly 2,000 members in 14 sections. The coop manager is a woman. The coop spent half of the Fairtrade premium for 2015 in cash bonuses to members, and half on building a school, creating a large cocoa plant nursery, GPS mapping for forecasting and the purchase of trucks for transporting cocoa.
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  • 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 />
<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.
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  • 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 />
<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.
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  • Workers producing clothing at the Pratibha factory.<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.
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  • Workers producing clothing at the Pratibha factory.<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.
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  • a worker pushes a trolley of combed cotton reels in the PRatibha factory.<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
  • Workers check the production of cotton yarns on rows of spinning machines.<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.
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  • Saira Poveda, in charge of packaging at the NICARAOCOOP processing plant near Chinandega, Nicaragua. Here Saira is packing organic fairtrade honey. NICARAOCOOP is a fairtrade-certified coop
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  • Jesus the Indigenous Leader<br />
<br />
Jesús Pérez, Corralito, Copán<br />
<br />
"I live here in Los Altos de Corralito, where I was born, high up in the mountains. I plant corn and beans, and sometimes I earn some money working as a labourer. I have six living daughters, and two living sons. And I have five or six grandchildren. <br />
<br />
Our community has a history of struggle for land and for recognition of our indigenous identity, and my family has paid dearly for it. Blood has been spilt for our indigenous rights.<br />
<br />
My nephew was Candido Amador. He was two days older than me. The Maya Chortí communities were marginalised by the big landowners, but thank God, now we have official recognition as an indigenous people, and we have a little bit of land. We’ve been here for thousands of years, but we only got recognition in the last twenty years.<br />
<br />
My nephew gave his life for our cause. They assassinated him.<br />
<br />
He had long hair, he dressed in indigenous clothes, and had very indigenous features. They thought he was the leader and representative of the indigenous movement, so they targeted him. In fact he wasn’t the representative. The person who represented our organisation was compañera María de Jesús Interiano. She was the first elected President of the Council, while we were preparing for the first Congress. But they thought that Candido was the leader and that’s why they assassinated him. <br />
He was beaten, he was cut with a machete on his hands, his neck, his head, and he was shot three times in the chest. And they scalped him. <br />
<br />
It was the night of the 11th of April 1997. He lived in my house, so they came here to get me to identify the body. He had been thrown on the side of the road. We brought him up here to the Catholic church to say prayers, for a wake. <br />
<br />
He is buried in Rincón del Buey. One of my own sons is buried next to him. He had a fall while he was working in the town, and died of the internal injuries later. We put flowers on both the graves at the same time."
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  • 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."
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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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  • 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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  • The new central processing mill for Andes coop was built in Farallones, Antioquia at 1280msm. The mill was recently inaugurated and was built with money from the Fairtrade Premium. The mill standardises processing and allows the coop to improve quality of final product by eliminating variations and defects in processing that happens when farmers process their own coffee. By doing this they can improve the income for the farmers. The mill can process 90,000 kg/day and also has a water treatment plant.
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  • The plant for processing raw sugar at the NORANDINO offices in Piura.
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  • The plant for processing raw sugar at the NORANDINO offices in Piura.
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  • Boxes of organic bananas at the BOS coop plant in Salitral, Piura, Peru
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  • Boxes of organic bananas at the BOS coop plant in Salitral, Piura, Peru
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  • Boxes of organic bananas at the BOS coop plant in Salitral, Piura, Peru
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  • preparing organic Fairtrade bananas for export at a processing plant in Salitral, Piura, Peru
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  • Lisenia Ramon Sanmartín (right hand side of the picture) with her packing team.<br />
<br />
'I've been in ASOGUABO since 1998. The Association, since I joined, has always given support to women and men, equally. Women are in ASOGUABO, and we are treated the same as men. <br />
<br />
With Fairtrade, our bananas get us some extra support, for our workers, and we get stability, guarantees that we're going to sell our bananas at a fair and stable price, a price that it higher than the pay you get outside of Fairtrade. <br />
<br />
If you need support to improve your packing station, you get it, if you need a road to your packing station, you get it, if you need to imrprove your drainage, you get it.<br />
<br />
We also get support for our workers and children when it's term time, for studying. We've put in a water treatment plant in Las Casitas, for the people living there to have drinking water.<br />
<br />
And we are running projects like the plastic recycling, we are all recycling. Here we are all using the three Rs, reuse, recycle, and, the other R, haha.<br />
<br />
We are grateful to everyone for taking us into consideration. We don't want gifts, we want to work, with dignity, so, please buy our bananas!.'
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  • Blanca Azucena Andrade Flores and her husband leaving the packing plant in Machala during the night shift.<br />
<br />
'We are doing well with the prices Fairtrade give us, the support we get from the premium.<br />
<br />
You've seen here, it's hard work, up here in the hills it's harder than down on the flat. This is a small farm, and an organic farm, we need more help than farms that produce hundreds and thousands of boxes. Helping small scale producers keeps a lot of people in work.<br />
<br />
Eat my fruit, it's very, very nice. It's got no chemicals, nothing to do you harm.
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  • Edwin Mero Probaño, President of ASOGUABO, a Fairtrade-certified banana producing coop in southern Ecuador.<br />
<br />
Here he walks through the plastic recycling plant that they have established using the Fairtrade premium. All of the plastic on the ASOGUABO farms and packing stations is now recycled.
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  • Edwin Mero Probaño is President of ASOGUABO, a Fairtrade-certified banana producing coop in southern Ecuador. <br />
<br />
Here he walks through the plastic recycling plant that they have established using the Fairtrade premium. All of the plastic on the ASOGUABO farms and packing stations is now recycled.
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  • Ing. Carlos Elisalde, coordinator of environmental management, bio-fermentation and plastic recycling.<br />
<br />
'We extract and mix elements here, including garlic, onion, ginger, charcoal, minerals, sometimes small amounts of soil from virgin forest, and plenty of other sources, and with them we produce large volumes of liquid fertilizers charged with nutrients, beneficial micro-organisms, mycorrhizae, and we give these to the producers. And we produce organic insect repellants too. Nearly all of our producers are already 100% organic, and these products are natural, they boost fertility and they subdue and control plant diseases. We've built this lab with Fairtrade premium.'
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  • Edwin Mero Probaño is President of ASOGUABO, a Fairtrade-certified banana producing coop in southern Ecuador. Here he walks through the plastic recycling plant that they have established using the Fairtrade premium. All of the plastic on the ASOGUABO farms and packing stations is now recycled.
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