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  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
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  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
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  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
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  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
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  • Manuel García under his solar drying area on his farm in San Benito, El Manantial. A member of the Flor de Dalia coop in Jinotega, Nicaragua, Manuel produces organic coffee, cocoa and honey.
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  • Beekeepers use smoke to keep bees calm while they inspect the hives. Guaya'b Cooperative is a certified Fairtrade producer of coffee and honey based in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Guayab_20120314_081.jpg
  • Dawn in Petén. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120309_101.jpg
  • Honey pours into a filter in the COADAP laboratory in Santa Elena, Petén. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_094.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, opens a defensive africanised hive to check the health of the hive frame by frame. The bees swarm around him.<br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_087.jpg
  • Alex Juárez a beekeeper in his protective clothing on the back of a pickup truck travelling between groups of hives. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_063.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García works with other beekeepers at his hives in Santa Ana, Petén. <br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_021.jpg
  • A closeup of a queen cell on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_050.jpg
  • A close up bees on of a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
<br />
CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_030.jpg
  • Carpenters make beehives in the CIPAC building. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_020.jpg
  • Packaging of tealeaves at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Manfredo Max, in charge of commercialisation at Chirripeco. Tea grows on bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Wiston Vilchez, General Manager of the Flor de Dalia coop in Jinotega, Nicaragua
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  • A fungal disease that affects coffee, Pellejillo, makes the leaves and fruits die. Flor la Dalia coop provides technical assistance to its members on how to manage diseases like this
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  • Manuel García cycling on ingenious homemade cycle-powered coffee depulping machine, San Benito, El Manantial.
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  • Maritza Chavería in her kitchen at home on the El Manantial farm, San Benito, Jinotega.
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  • Honeycomb. Guaya'b Cooperative is a certified Fairtrade producer of coffee and honey based in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Guayab_20120314_098.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, Rolando Barientos and Alex Juárez, beekeepers with their hives. <br />
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COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_061.jpg
  • Honey pours into a filter in the COADAP laboratory in Santa Elena, Petén. <br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_092.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, opens a defensive africanised hive to check the health of the hive frame by frame. The bees swarm around him.<br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_089.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, opens a defensive africanised hive and to check the health of the hive frame by frame. COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_058.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, opens a defensive africanised hive and to check the health of the hive frame by frame. COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_048.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García works with other beekeepers at his hives in Santa Ana, Petén. <br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_019.jpg
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  • Miguel Angel García leads other beekeepers towards his hives in Santa Ana, Petén. <br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_017.jpg
  • Sandri Lizeth García Herrera, 20, holds a frame of honeycomb before putting it into a centrifuge. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_058.jpg
  • Fidelino García, beekeeper, has 25 beehives in the village of Cuá, Guayabal, Huhuetenango. Here he takes the wax cap off a frame of honeycomb. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_052.jpg
  • A closeup of a queen cell on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
<br />
CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_051.jpg
  • A close up of bees on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
<br />
CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_043.jpg
  • A close up of bees on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
<br />
CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_037.jpg
  • A close up of a frame of honeycomb in a beehive, bees sucking up honey to move to another location. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_041.jpg
  • Leonor García, a member of the honey-producing coop CIPAC, has 38 beehives in the village of Horno de Cal in Huehuetenango. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_026.jpg
  • Leonor García, a member of the honey-producing coop CIPAC, has 38 beehives in the village of Horno de Cal in Huehuetenango. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_025.jpg
  • Francisco Trigueros, beekeeper member of CIPAC, takes a trolley along a road to bring his honey to the coop. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_022.jpg
  • Honey is poured into a plastic jar at the CIPAC coop. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_016.jpg
  • Joé Galvez runs an optical refractometry test on a batch of honey at CIPAC. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_008.jpg
  • Black tealeaves at Chirripeco. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
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  • Alfredo Bac, President of the tea-producing Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala., President of the tea-producing Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Packaging of tealeaves at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Packaging of tealeaves at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Ramón Baccol, in charge of the tea plant at Chirripeco shows the tea wilting boxes. Tea leaves in a tea wilting box at Chirripeco. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Manuel García under his solar drying area on his farm in San Benito, El Manantial. A member of the Flor de Dalia coop in Jinotega, Nicaragua, Manuel produces organic coffee, cocoa and honey.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190618_520.jpg
  • A bunch of bananas in the kitchen of Maritza Chavería and Manuel García in San Benito, Jinotega.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190618_445.jpg
  • Beekeepers use smoke to keep bees calm while they inspect the hives. Guaya'b Cooperative is a certified Fairtrade producer of coffee and honey based in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Guayab_20120314_090.jpg
  • Beekeepers use smoke to keep bees calm while they inspect the hives. Guaya'b Cooperative is a certified Fairtrade producer of coffee and honey based in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Guayab_20120314_083.jpg
  • Beekeepers use smoke to keep bees calm while they inspect the hives. Guaya'b Cooperative is a certified Fairtrade producer of coffee and honey based in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Guayab_20120314_075.jpg
  • Beekeepers use smoke to keep bees calm while they inspect the hives. Guaya'b Cooperative is a certified Fairtrade producer of coffee and honey based in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Guayab_20120314_069.jpg
  • Beekeepers use smoke to keep bees calm while they inspect the hives. Guaya'b Cooperative is a certified Fairtrade producer of coffee and honey based in Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Guayab_20120314_065.jpg
  • Honey pours into a filter in the COADAP laboratory in Santa Elena, Petén. <br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_097.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, opens a defensive africanised hive and to check the health of the hive frame by frame. COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_044.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García leads other beekeepers towards his hives in Santa Ana, Petén. <br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_018.jpg
  • Miguel Angel García, beekeeper, prepares his smoker and protective clothing before approaching his africanised beehives. <br />
<br />
COADAP, Cooperativa Agrícola de. Apicultores de Petén, is a certified fairtrade producer based in the Petén jungle in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_COADAP_20120308_015.jpg
  • A close up of bees on a frame of honeycomb in a beehive. <br />
<br />
CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_046.jpg
  • A bee stings a beekeeper's finger. Some beekepers say that the stings have medicinal and therapeutic qualities and give longevity, so they don't mind being stung. <br />
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CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_036.jpg
  • Joé Galvez and Yefin Herrera moving barrels of honey in the clean area of the CIPAC building. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_013.jpg
  • A cake of beeswax produced by the CIPAC coop, ready for sale at the coop shop. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_005.jpg
  • Honey in plastic bottles, produced and processed by the  CIPAC coop. CIPAC, Cooperativa Integral de Producción Apicultores de Cuilco, is a Fairtrade-certified honey-producing organisation in Cuilco, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_CIPAC_20120313_002.jpg
  • Packaging of tealeaves at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Ramón Baccol, in charge of the tea plant at Chirripeco shows the tea wilting boxes. Tea leaves in a tea wilting box at Chirripeco. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Tea bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Tea bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Tea bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • Tea grows on bushes at Chirripeco coop. Asociación Chirripeco is a certified fairtrade producer based in Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Chirripec_20120309_...jpg
  • In the UCOSEMUN shop the coop sells items such as foods, detergents and even motorbikes. Here shelves are full of basic commodities. UCOSEMUN cooperative in Estelí, Nicaragua is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_499.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_487.jpg
  • Jorge Fuentes works on organic fertilizers for coffee production. Flor del Pino was upported to begin organic fertilizer production by Faritrade Finland.
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  • CWS supports local organisation CIEDEG to run a food production and nutrition programme in several areas of Guatemala. With their support, in the indigenous highlands of Nebaj, 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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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_577.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_546.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_554.jpg
  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
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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 />
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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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  • Jorge Fuentes works on organic fertilizers for coffee production. Flor del Pino was upported to begin organic fertilizer production by Faritrade Finland.
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  • Jorge Fuentes works on organic fertilizers for coffee production. Flor del Pino was upported to begin organic fertilizer production by Faritrade Finland.
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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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  • An indigenous girl in Rio Azul village in Nebaj. CWS supports local organisation CIEDEG to run a food production and nutrition programme in several areas of Guatemala. With their support, in the indigenous highlands of Nebaj, 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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  • 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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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
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  • Marta Gutierrez lives in the community of La Vainilla, Caraza, Nicaragua. She has taken part in a CIEETS program on diversification and food security supported by CWS. “We have had the idea of improving our living standards for a long time, but it isn’t easy. The honey production has helped us. Some people questioned it, they said it was no good waiting a whole year to see the production. But we have patience, and it’s been good. We have three hives, in logs, and we spent a year before we could divide up the hives into box hives. Now we have three different types of Melipona bees. I’ve already harvested three litres of honey, but it’s not the same as honey you’d find in a shop, the color and smell is different, and it is medicinal, specially for the eyes and for coughs, but also for women, for period pains. Chipiza is really tiny, jicote chipiza is another. I go to all the farmer markets, fairs, I sell mangos, jocotes, vegetables, a bit of everything, even soft cheese, eggs. With this project I’ve been growing new things, citrus fruits, squash, onions”.
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  • CWS supports local organisation CIEDEG to run a food production and nutrition programme in several areas of Guatemala. With their support, in the indigenous highlands of Nebaj, 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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  • Indigenous community member Petrona. CWS supports local organisation CIEDEG to run a food production and nutrition programme in several areas of Guatemala. With their support, in the indigenous highlands of Nebaj, 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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  • 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.
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  • 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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  • 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.
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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.”
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