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  • Katy Valeska Paguaga Salinas and her father Don Pedro Antonio Paguaga Miranda work on their diversified farm that has several acres of coffee. Katy and her father are members of the Caja Rural Coop, San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua. The coop is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • Early morning mountain scene in Intibucá.
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  • Mountain scene at Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras where the coffee-producing coop COAQUIL is based
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  • Los Laureles, one of two reservoirs that serve the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, is currently at approximately half capacity, the water level drops more frequenty than ever and the driest months of the year bring the water level to previously unseen levels. The reservoir, according to the national water authority, SANAA, serves around 210,000 people with drinking water. The UN climate change panel, IPCC, have repeatedly predicted likelihood of reduced precipitation for the region, and cities as well as smaller rural communities are in danger of running out of water.
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  • A muddy path in rural Honduras goes through a forest area
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  • Los Laureles, one of two reservoirs that serve the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, is currently at approximately half capacity, the water level drops more frequenty than ever and the driest months of the year bring the water level to previously unseen levels. The reservoir, according to the national water authority, SANAA, serves around 210,000 people with drinking water. The UN climate change panel, IPCC, have repeatedly predicted likelihood of reduced precipitation for the region, and cities as well as smaller rural communities are in danger of running out of water.
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  • A typical rural household in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala.
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  • Misty mountain scene with vegetation at a coffee farm in Loma Linda, Retalhuleu. Manos Campesinas is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Quetzaltenango and Retalhuleu, Guatemala
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  • A rural scene in North Korea, with rice paddies, a child carries a blue swimming ring for playing in the river.
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  • In Nongladew, Meghalaya, a child carries a sibling in a sling.
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  • Jesus Struggling with Climate Change<br />
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Jesús García Hernández, Los Horcones, Langue, Valle<br />
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"The drought has been going on for ten years. It’s due to climate change. Winters were good before. But now we’ve had years without water here. We’ve got dry streams, rivers and wells. We lose our seeds and fertilizers; we even lose our hope sometimes.<br />
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There are families here who haven’t had a harvest for ten years. We’ve all just lost another harvest. We prepared the soil, put in the seeds and fertilizers and, when the first bit of rain came, the plants began growing. Then the rain stopped. We got nothing. Then the rain came again but it was too late. After ten years of drought the people here have used up their reserves and there’s desperation.<br />
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We’ve had to deepen the wells, but they still dry up. The water is going down - it’s climate change.<br />
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A lot of people have left the area. Some go to work in other places as labourers or security guards or cleaners. And some risk the journey to the States. What else is there to do?"
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  • A failed crop of corn that died from lack of water, near Nacaome, southern Honduras.
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  • A man brings an ox-drawn cart along the dry river bed of the Choluteca river in Honduras, carrying firewood. As the prolonged drought here, linked to climate change, continues, farmers resort to chopping down their trees to sell as firewood to make ends meet, further exacerbating the environmental crisis.
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  • Maria Sosa of CASM grafts gourmet cocoa to resistant stock. The trees are being used to reforest a watershed in an environmental crisis in Honduras, and the cocoa provides income for the local communities.
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  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men work with hoes during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
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  • Selenia Vanegas, coffee producer with COMSA cooperative in Santiago Puringla, La Paz. Selenia was a migrant and lived in the New York working for six years.
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  • Dajaben Charda, 16, daughter of a Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer helps irrigate a cotton field in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • Kantaben Parbatbhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • Parbatbhai Amarabhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • In Nongladew, Meghalaya, a girl walks through a palm plantation on her way to school.
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  • Martha Marak carries firewood home in Nongladew, a small village in the mountainous indigenous area of Meghalaya, in Northeast India.
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  • Bareback horse races at Mauro Cueva's farm near Copán Ruinas
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  • Landscape near San Nicolás, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • A church and landscape near San Nicolás, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, Berta Cáceres daughter, swims in the Gualquarque river in Intibucá. Her mother campaigned and organised indigenous communities in Intibucá to defend the river valley from being used for a hydroelectric dam. The dam construction that was begun at this site was stopped, but Berta Cáceres - campaigner for environmental and indigenous rights - was assassinated as the leader of opposition to the dam.
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  • Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, Berta Cáceres daughter, swims in the Gualquarque river in Intibucá. Her mother campaigned and organised indigenous communities in Intibucá to defend the river valley from being used for a hydroelectric dam. The dam construction that was begun at this site was stopped, but Berta Cáceres - campaigner for environmental and indigenous rights - was assassinated as the leader of opposition to the dam.
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  • Maria Mercedes Gómez (centre), coordinator of the Council of Elders in the Lenca organisation COPINH in Río Blanco, Intibucá. Here she stands at the site on the Río Gualquarque where the construction of a dam was begun, and which they opposed successfully. Several members of the community were killed during the stuggle.
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  • Brenda Paola Molina López, 22, San Pedro Catacamas<br />
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I was in a private university. It was too expensive. I live with my mother, she’s a single mother, we couldn’t afford to carry on with the studies, I couldn’t find a job, there’s a lot of violence here, a lot. So, I decided to go to the US. <br />
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We paid a smuggler, $4,000. <br />
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Saying goodbye to my mum was hard, we’d never been apart before. You know it’s risky, you don’t know if you are going to come back, you are conscious of the risk, of being kidnapped, being raped, being killed. But, there’s nothing here. We don’t all have drinking water, sometimes there’s no water at all. There are people right here who don’t eat three meals a day, who can’t afford to send their kids to school, my neighbour here didn’t send their kids to school last year, couldn’t afford it. If you are lucky to get day work here, as a farm labourer, you might get 100 lempiras a day, maybe 90, depends, and it’s hard work. You can’t do much with 100 Lempiras ($4 USD). <br />
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The truth is that you suffer on the journey, sometimes you walk all night, sometimes there’s not much food, you have to sleep on the floor, and it’s dangerous, you can be kidnapped, killed. They tried to sell one of the young women I was with, to sleep with men, you understand. I lost a lot of weight on the journey, I got really skinny, I didn’t get back to normal until after being in prison.<br />
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I was deported twice, once from Mexico, once from the US. The first time I went I got to Mexico, I was deported back to San Pedro Sula, and then I just went straight back. I got to McAllen, Texas and was caught shortly after I got there. I was imprisoned for eight days and then deported. I didn’t have money to get a lawyer to fight my case, so I came back, I signed the form to be deported. I was in prison with Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, other Hondurans. I was 19. <br />
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Thank God, the LWF has helped me a lot, from the first day I met them. With their help, we�
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  • Timber extraction at night from Olancho. Logging in Honduras, though very widespread, is frequently illegal, typically illegal operations are heavily guarded by armed men.
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  • Rio Chiquito, Nacaome, Honduras, with holes where sand is being extracted for building.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Maria collects water from a pond on the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
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  • A bridge over the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
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  • Children play under a bridge on the Rio Iztoca, Choluteca, Honduras. With the prolonged droughts affecting the area because of climate change, the river is mainly dried up.
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  • A boy pulls ticks from a cows face, Langue, Valle, Honduras. The cattle are resting because of heat exhaustion in this area that is affected by droughts and climate change.
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  • Rio Chiquito, Nacaome, Honduras, with holes where sand is being extracted for building.
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  • Oscar Alexis Maldonado Ramírez rides his horse 'Palomo' along a stretch of the Rio Nacaome. <br />
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"We're in the middle of the river, in the middle of what was the river, it shouldn't be like this should it? Even when it rains, which is rare now, the water disappears quickly, the crops fail without irrigation, but now the wells keep drying up so we can't irrigate. I've just taken my cattle away, they can't survive here without water. In fact we can't survive here without water."
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  • A bridge over the Rio Iztoca in southern Honduras. Though it is the rainy season, the river bed is dry. The river has dried up in recent years, along with many other rivers in the region, this is thought to be partly from stripping of vegetation and forest cover in the watersheds that feed the rivers in the south, and also due to the influence of climate change. The IPCC predicted a likelihood of reduced rainfall in the region. Agriculture has already been failing in the area for eight years because of drought conditions.
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  • A woman carries a bucket to fill at a village well. The drought affecting this area near Langue, Valle, has gone on for nearly ten years, resulting from climate change. The local wells have either dried up, or they have locking hatches over them, to allow rationing of water in the community.
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  • Yanina Avila, 18, daughter of assassinated Tolupán indigenous leader José de Los Santos Sevilla, in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor in Honduras.<br />
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Yanina talks of her father's fear of encroaching mining and logging companies, and nearby ladinos who want to take Tolupán land, and how defenceless they are against them. While non-indigenous areas are deforested, the rivers dry or poisoned, the indigenous territories have woodland and fresh water in the rivers.<br />
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Eight Tolupán leaders have been assassinated in this area. Others have been assassinated in another Tolupán area in Yoro.<br />
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"My father died protecting this forest. They will carry on killing people who look after nature, maybe until we're all gone".
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  • The road into Montaña de la Flor, Tolupán indigenous reserve, Honduras
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  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
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  • Marco Rosalio Duarte laughs "Get that horse out of my picture!" <br />
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Marco Rosalio is one of the leaders of the Federation of Pech Tribes in Honduras, I interview him in Pueblo Nuevo Subirana, an hour from Dulce Nombre de Culmí, Olancho, Honduras.<br />
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The village has 850 inhabitants, almost all of them are indigenous Pech. There are only 6,000 Pech people. <br />
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"About a quarter of the people in the village speak Pech as their mother tongue, everyone speaks a bit. Pech is taught now in the schools, but most people communicate with Spanish, particularly the young people."<br />
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"The village is surrounded by forest, mainly broadleaf but some pine. The area is now a protected area, the National Congress recently approved it."<br />
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"There are flaws in the reservation agreement. There are 16 white ladino families inside this new anthropological reservation, they have a bit of money too, and it's harder to move rich people than poor people in this country. It will be very hard to move them."<br />
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"For protecting our area, we are threatened. Some families have entered our territory recently and have cut down forest and burned the trees to make pastures for cattle. Their intention is to make money. Our intention is to protect the environment, the forest, the water. We've made declarations to the police, and those people will go to court. This isn't the normal way of doing things here, a lot of violence is used, that's the mentality here. Berta Cáceres is just one of hundreds of people who've been killed for protecting the environment and indigenous rights. At the moment we have death threats against us for trying to protect the environment and our territory. We insist on the use of law to resolve these problems."
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  • Lázaro Adalid Zablah, Los Charcos, Olancho: I’ve taken part in the programmes with Diaconia (the national partner of World Renew in the region of Olancho) and I’ve taken up everything I’ve been taught. I’ve worked on making unproductive land productive by using conservation agriculture techniques, I’ve worked on diversification, grafting, everything they’ve taught me, I’m using it. We’ve turned useless land, that no one could farm, into productive land, the technique is hard work at first, to make the holes for the compost, but it really works, everyone is impressed.
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  • The traditional method of clearing land by controlled burning is now looked down upon. Current best practice is never leaving the soil unprotected, and mulching instead of burning.
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  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
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  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
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  • Clearing land left fallow for seven years. Six or seven years of fallow keeps this land fertile, and makes the farming sustainable, but the clearance is tough work. The farmers use machetes called guarisamas, with very long heavy blades. This farm, belonging to Lázaro Adalid Zablah, a participant in programmes sponsored by World Renew, is near Los Charcos, Olancho.
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  • A girl reclines on a tree in El Burillo, Honduras
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  • As the water table level continues to drop, many wells in southern Honduras have dried out, like this one in El Burillo, Valle. Communities have deepened their hand-dug wells up to three times, others have drilled deeper wells, up to 60m deep, with special rigs, but the drought has already lasted seven years in this dry corridor of Central America and is predicted to continue due to climate change. Here villagers help deepen a well.
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  • A boy carries a water container to his house in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras
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  • Salvador Hernandez in Piedras Negras, Santa Barbara, Honduras, working on beehives in a community project that produces honey, beeswax and royal jelly. Produce is consumed in the community and sold in local markets. The project, that is part of a broader regional programme on food production and nutrition, is supported by CWS through CASM.
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  • Manuel Lopez walks over a neighbour's ground that has been burned. Agricultural advisors in a programme supported by CWS are encouraging more sustainable methods of weed control, that prevent erosion of slopes.
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  • In a project for clean drinking water in the village of Buenos Aires in Santa Barbara, Honduras, villagers dug trenches for several kilometers and provided all the non-expert labour for the project. Until the project was implemented, drinking water was fetched mainly by the women, many of whom had to carry heavy water containers for an hour a day.
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  • Salvador Hernandez in Piedras Negras, Santa Barbara, Honduras, working on beehives in a community project that produces honey, beeswax and royal jelly. Produce is consumed in the community and sold in local markets. The project, that is part of a broader regional programme on food production and nutrition, is supported by CWS through CASM.
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  • Salvador Hernandez in Piedras Negras, Santa Barbara, Honduras, working on beehives in a community project that produces honey, beeswax and royal jelly. Produce is consumed in the community and sold in local markets. The project, that is part of a broader regional programme on food production and nutrition, is supported by CWS through CASM.
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  • A man working at a gourmet cocoa nursery in the Merendon valley of Honduras.
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  • Indigenous Maya Chortí men work with hoes during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
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  • The mountains around Santiago de Puringla, La Paz, Honduras, where coffee is grown by members of the COMSA cooperative.
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  • Selenia Vanegas, coffee producer with COMSA cooperative in Santiago Puringla, La Paz. Selenia was a migrant and lived in the New York working for six years.
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  • misty early morning in high cloud forest in Intibucá, Honduras
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  • Gerber Vásquez, coffee farmer and member of the COAQUIL cooperative in Quiragüira, Intibucá. Gerber was a migrant in the US but returned to grow coffee in Honduras. The coffee industry is affected by low prices and climate-change-related disease of leaf rust. The guaranteed price of Fairtrade coffee is saving Gerber and other producers from the crisis that others in the region are suffering.
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  • Rosa Arely Gútierrez, 29, coffee producer in the COAQUIL cooperative, Quiragüira, Intibucá, Honduras. Rosa's father and brothers migrated to the US looking for employment.
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  • A coffee picker working in Intibucá, Honduras
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  • A young woman works picking coffee on a coffee farm in Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • In the lowlands around the COAQUIL coffee coop in Masaguara, the landscape is full of desert plants.
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  • Q'eqchi girls playing football in Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz. Under Informed Consent rules, the parents of these children would have to be tracked down to give their consent for this photo to be taken or used.
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  • At the Vasudha Training and Research Centre Farm in Jamniya,  organic farming techniques are taught to farmers and demonstration plots prove organic techniques.<br />
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Pratibha Syntex, Pithamur, Madhya Pradesh, produces 60 million items of clothing a year in its vertically-integrated facility that takes raw cotton and turns it into finished clothing. 10,000 people work at the plant, 33,000 cotton farmers are part of Vasudha farming cooperative that provide cotton to Pratibha. Pratibha and Vasudha are Fairtrade-certified.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.
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  • Matalben weeding a cotton field in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • Mamtuben Papybhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • Bharnabem Charda, daughter of a Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer helps irrigate a cotton field in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • Kantaben Parbatbhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170109_258.jpg
  • Mamtuben Papybhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • Mamtuben Papybhai Charda, Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • A tribal girl in front of a haystack in Jharkhand province, India
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  • Bareback horse races at Mauro Cueva's farm near Copán Ruinas
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  • A large area of Honduras is forested, in the higher areas pine is common.
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  • A wooded riverside on the road to Olancho.
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  • Trees with red flowers
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  • Doña Filomena, a Lenca woman, on the road to San Nicolás, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • Red earth and pine trees near San Juan, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • Lenca girl with hens near San Juan, Intibucá.
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  • carrying firewood on mules at Río Blanco.
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  • The Gualquarque river, at the spot where a dam was to be build, but was successfully opposed by Lenca organisation COPINH.
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  • The Gualquarque river, at the spot where a dam was to be build, but was successfully opposed by Lenca organisation COPINH.
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  • Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, Berta Cáceres daughter, swims in the Gualquarque river in Intibucá. Her mother campaigned and organised indigenous communities in Intibucá to defend the river valley from being used for a hydroelectric dam. The dam construction that was begun at this site was stopped, but Berta Cáceres - campaigner for environmental and indigenous rights - was assassinated as the leader of opposition to the dam.
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  • Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, Berta Cáceres daughter, swims in the Gualquarque river in Intibucá. Her mother campaigned and organised indigenous communities in Intibucá to defend the river valley from being used for a hydroelectric dam. The dam construction that was begun at this site was stopped, but Berta Cáceres - campaigner for environmental and indigenous rights - was assassinated as the leader of opposition to the dam.
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  • Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, Berta Cáceres daughter, swims in the Gualquarque river in Intibucá. Her mother campaigned and organised indigenous communities in Intibucá to defend the river valley from being used for a hydroelectric dam. The dam construction that was begun at this site was stopped, but Berta Cáceres - campaigner for environmental and indigenous rights - was assassinated as the leader of opposition to the dam.
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  • Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, Berta Cáceres daughter, swims in the Gualquarque river in Intibucá. Her mother campaigned and organised indigenous communities in Intibucá to defend the river valley from being used for a hydroelectric dam. The dam construction that was begun at this site was stopped, but Berta Cáceres - campaigner for environmental and indigenous rights - was assassinated as the leader of opposition to the dam.
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  • Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, Berta Cáceres daughter, swims in the Gualquarque river in Intibucá. Her mother campaigned and organised indigenous communities in Intibucá to defend the river valley from being used for a hydroelectric dam. The dam construction that was begun at this site was stopped, but Berta Cáceres - campaigner for environmental and indigenous rights - was assassinated as the leader of opposition to the dam.
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  • Maria Mercedes Gómez, coordinator of the Council of Elders in the Lenca organisation COPINH in Río Blanco, Intibucá. Here she stands at the site on the Río Gualquarque where the construction of a dam was begun, and which they opposed successfully. Several members of the community were killed during the stuggle.
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  • A man carries a horse saddle on the back of his motorbike in Santa Barbara, Honduras.
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  • Rolando Herrera <br />
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My father was a police officer. He died in 2010, he was killed.<br />
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In that time Olancho was in a difficult situation. Drug trafficking had grown a lot, the authorities didn’t do anything, there was no other authority. We would walk through Juticalpa and see the traffickers controlling everything in the street. One time I saw a crowd of people and could hear people shouting, as I approached I could see that they were burning some people alive in the street, they poured petrol on them and set them on fire, in front of all the people. I don’t know what it was about. That sort of thing would happen.<br />
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Girls and women couldn’t go out, they didn’t dare to go out, so they had to close some schools, no one wanted to go to school. If a trafficker wanted a girl, he’d just take her on the street, drive her away, she might never be seen again. <br />
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To get to work, I bought a motorbike on credit, and one day the traffickers stopped me on the street, at gunpoint, and took the bike. I never saw it again, but had to carry on paying the quotas for the loan, even though I didn’t have the bike.<br />
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Most of the houses in my neighbourhood had two or three kids, we used to play on the street. Within a few years, no one played outside, and all the kids, absolutely all of the kids, became migrants and went to the US. A few of them were killed, some in front of their house, before they could leave. It became a ghost town, many houses are abandoned, some in serious disrepair, some houses had their roofs and doors removed.  To go into the area you have to drive slowly with the windows down, and report to the trafficker guards, telling them who you were going to visit. If you drive fast or with the windows up, you’ll be shot.<br />
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So, I went to the US. I was there for a while. I made two trips, the first one failed, it went bad. I went with a people smuggler. We had a guide, and we met a group of the Zetas, they killed the guide in front of us, they cut his throat and decapi
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  • Brenda Paola Molina López, 22, San Pedro Catacamas<br />
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I was in a private university. It was too expensive. I live with my mother, she’s a single mother, we couldn’t afford to carry on with the studies, I couldn’t find a job, there’s a lot of violence here, a lot. So, I decided to go to the US. <br />
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We paid a smuggler, $4,000. <br />
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Saying goodbye to my mum was hard, we’d never been apart before. You know it’s risky, you don’t know if you are going to come back, you are conscious of the risk, of being kidnapped, being raped, being killed. But, there’s nothing here. We don’t all have drinking water, sometimes there’s no water at all. There are people right here who don’t eat three meals a day, who can’t afford to send their kids to school, my neighbour here didn’t send their kids to school last year, couldn’t afford it. If you are lucky to get day work here, as a farm labourer, you might get 100 lempiras a day, maybe 90, depends, and it’s hard work. You can’t do much with 100 Lempiras ($4 USD). <br />
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The truth is that you suffer on the journey, sometimes you walk all night, sometimes there’s not much food, you have to sleep on the floor, and it’s dangerous, you can be kidnapped, killed. They tried to sell one of the young women I was with, to sleep with men, you understand. I lost a lot of weight on the journey, I got really skinny, I didn’t get back to normal until after being in prison.<br />
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I was deported twice, once from Mexico, once from the US. The first time I went I got to Mexico, I was deported back to San Pedro Sula, and then I just went straight back. I got to McAllen, Texas and was caught shortly after I got there. I was imprisoned for eight days and then deported. I didn’t have money to get a lawyer to fight my case, so I came back, I signed the form to be deported. I was in prison with Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, other Hondurans. I was 19. <br />
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Thank God, the LWF has helped me a lot, from the first day I met them. With their help, we�
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  • Brenda Paola Molina López, 22, San Pedro Catacamas<br />
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I was in a private university. It was too expensive. I live with my mother, she’s a single mother, we couldn’t afford to carry on with the studies, I couldn’t find a job, there’s a lot of violence here, a lot. So, I decided to go to the US. <br />
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We paid a smuggler, $4,000. <br />
<br />
Saying goodbye to my mum was hard, we’d never been apart before. You know it’s risky, you don’t know if you are going to come back, you are conscious of the risk, of being kidnapped, being raped, being killed. But, there’s nothing here. We don’t all have drinking water, sometimes there’s no water at all. There are people right here who don’t eat three meals a day, who can’t afford to send their kids to school, my neighbour here didn’t send their kids to school last year, couldn’t afford it. If you are lucky to get day work here, as a farm labourer, you might get 100 lempiras a day, maybe 90, depends, and it’s hard work. You can’t do much with 100 Lempiras ($4 USD). <br />
<br />
The truth is that you suffer on the journey, sometimes you walk all night, sometimes there’s not much food, you have to sleep on the floor, and it’s dangerous, you can be kidnapped, killed. They tried to sell one of the young women I was with, to sleep with men, you understand. I lost a lot of weight on the journey, I got really skinny, I didn’t get back to normal until after being in prison.<br />
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I was deported twice, once from Mexico, once from the US. The first time I went I got to Mexico, I was deported back to San Pedro Sula, and then I just went straight back. I got to McAllen, Texas and was caught shortly after I got there. I was imprisoned for eight days and then deported. I didn’t have money to get a lawyer to fight my case, so I came back, I signed the form to be deported. I was in prison with Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, other Hondurans. I was 19. <br />
<br />
Thank God, the LWF has helped me a lot, from the first day I met them. With their help, we�
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