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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_969.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_416.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_739.jpg
  • Daysi Solis García at home in El Tigre, Carazo
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_725.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua, with a hive of Melipona bees. “Before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1437.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by vinegar fly  so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I have different types of Melipona, I've got Mariola and Tamagaz."
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_654.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1329.jpg
  • René Bermúdez, has learned about poultry management with the CIEETS/CWS program in Carazo. He currently has 140 chickens he's fattening to sell, plus 40 hens he keeps for eggs.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1213.jpg
  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1027.jpg
  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1021.jpg
  • Rosa Lilian Peña and Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by a disease so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I’ve also had three pigs, through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens. I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more.” <br />
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Rosa Lilian says: “Thank God, we’ve had this project with CIEETS, we got the chicks, the team taught us about poultry management, and we’ve been selling the chicken, it’s helped us a lot economically, we’ve been able to help our children and pay for their education. Our eldest son is beginning to study medicine at university, we’re paying for that with the profit we make from the chickens.”
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_453.jpg
  • Danilo Valencia of CIEETS stand in the shade of a tree in San Antonio Abajo, site of a CWS-supported project for strengthening production and diversification.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_917.jpg
  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_791.jpg
  • Daysi Solis García at home in El Tigre, Carazo. Here she tends her hens, part of a CWS-supported project with CIEETS.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_728.jpg
  • Danilo Valencia of CIEETS in Claudia Palacios' farm in Carazo. CIEETS has provided technical support to farmers through a CWS-supported project.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_714.jpg
  • Hanging around on a hammock in the house of Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_975.jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. In this picture he is with his daughter and grandson. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_690.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_550.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1676.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1667.jpg
  • Danilo Valencia of CIEETS on the farm of Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua. CIEETS has provided technical support to farmers through a CWS-supported project.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1577.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1376.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1365.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales cooking at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua. She says that the family nutrition has improved becuase of the diversification in the CIEETS/CWS program.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1312.jpg
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  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_909.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_847.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”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_780.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua.<br />
Photo shows Raymundo between rows of banana and plantains.<br />
Raymundo says: “I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_647.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_531.jpg
  • Omar Antonio López in San Antonio Abajo, a participant in a CIEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_879.jpg
  • Maryan Guzmán, technical advisor and teacher for CIEETS speaks with pastor Adan García Díaz, pastor of the Nazareno Church in El Tigre.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_840.jpg
  • Alan Josué Palacios, 10, his mother Claudia takes part in the CIEETS program supported by CWS in the El Tigre community, Carazo, Nicaragua. Here, Claudia's field is sown with beans.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_545.jpg
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  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_658.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
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1668.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1650.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1635.jpg
  • Iris Mercedes Canales, René Camilo, René Bermúdez and Yarozca de los Angeles Bermúdez Canales, at home in El Abra, Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_965.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_866.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_748.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_737.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua
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  • Raymundo pours a glass of water from a filter given through the CIEETS/CWS project.
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  • Pastor Adan García Díaz, pastor of the Nazareno Church in El Tigre helps Fernando José Silva Parrales move a sack of banana corms, for use by another project participant in a COEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_856.jpg
  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
<br />
“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_761.jpg
  • Claudia Palacios, El Tigre community, Carazo<br />
<br />
“I’m mother to three children, I don’t have a husband, I’m single and I have to struggle to look after my kids. I have a little bit of land, but I don’t have seeds to sow and I don’t have money to buy seeds. A lot of people in this community are in the same situation. There are a few families who have someone who migrated to the US who can help them out to buy seeds, but most of us don’t. We’ve lost harvests several times, because it didn’t rain, or it rained too much, and so we’ve got no seeds left. When it rains too much, the crops die from disease or they’re washed away, when it doesn’t rain enough, they dry up, either way, us farmers lose everything”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_583.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_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_918.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
  • Belkis Ahurto López, daughter of Ivan Antonio Arana in Santa Elena, La Conquista, rides her horse Tequila.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_807.jpg
  • José Misael Selva Umaña, is promotor of agriculture in Carazo. “I’ve planted fruit trees, I monitor the rainfall in the area, and I work with the hives, I’m a meloponiculturalist. I have several hives already, this is a good initiative with the bees, it’s medicinal, the honey. And that’s a good thing for the family, and also it’s something we sell, we make some money from it. I’ve got oranges, lemons, bitter lemons, and ornamentals to attract the bees, so the bees don’t go very far. I also have calala and other fruit. Some of the hives are in logs, cut straight from the trees, others are in technified wooden boxes, that help us divide them and harvest the honey without disturbing them much. I have different types of bees too. And, we’ve got a good well from the project too, it’s clean”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_752.jpg
  • Faustino de Jesús Cortés Cortés is from La Vainilla, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua. “I’ve been working with CIEETS, and they’ve helped us with fruit trees, mangos, papaya and other fruits, they’re just maturing and we’ll get some fruit from them soon. We have citrus fruits, we’ve built level curves, barriers, we have natural medicines like lemon grass, we have pitahayas, achiote – which is good for the bees, but it’s also good for cooking, we use it ourselves, and it’s better than what you find in the shops. We have ornamental plants too, flowering plants for the bees. All this is good for us, for the family. We haven’t had a lot of success with the Meliponas, yet, but we will, we’ll keep trying. We have planted a lot of achiote, the bees love it. We have papaya, plenty of yuca, and plenty of quequisque that’s good for the nutrition, it’s the basics, and we have coconut, and peaches, star fruit. As all this goes up, we are creating the best conditions for the family to live well, it’s all new, we planted it all with CIEETS. What we want is to carry on improving, and all this will strengthen us. CIEETS has helped us move forwards”.
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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_525.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1661.jpg
  • Ricardo Umaña Aragón "we've grown bananas, fruit trees, mango, guava, peach, papaya, custard apple, jocote, and they gave us seeds for cucumbers, squash. And they gave me a toilet. And here they've taught us to become economical and organic, we don't use any bought synthetic chemical fertilizer or insecticide, it's all natural. And I've been working with poultry too. And, you should see, since I've done all this, all the iguanas have come back, they've built a nest here, I love seeing them, I won't kill them. And birds come here, tucans, parrots, everything. I am really impressed with what happens on a farm when you only use organic material".
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  • René Bermúdez has been taught by the CIEETS program supported by CWS to farm Melipona bees, a stingless bee that produces medicinal honey.
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  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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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_918.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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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_901.jpg
  • Keily Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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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_893.jpg
  • Rosa Lilian Peña and Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by a disease so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I’ve also had three pigs, through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens. I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more.” <br />
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Rosa Lilian says: “Thank God, we’ve had this project with CIEETS, we got the chicks, the team taught us about poultry management, and we’ve been selling the chicken, it’s helped us a lot economically, we’ve been able to help our children and pay for their education. Our eldest son is beginning to study medicine at university, we’re paying for that with the profit we make from the chickens.”
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  • Omar Antonio López in San Antonio Abajo, a participant in a CIEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua.
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  • A project area for work by CIEETS/CWS in San Antonio Abajo, Carazo, Nicaragua. The area has suffered deluges of rain that have washed away newly sown seeds and plantlings.
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  • Fernando José Silva Parrales in El Tigre, Carazo<br />
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“We bought this plot of land, we’d been living up in the mountains, but life is too hard there, I’ve been working with the advice of the CIEETS team, I’m not just planting corn and beans, we can’t rely on just that now because the rain is unpredictable, we need to grow other things, yuca, fruits, we need shade, we need ground cover to protect the soil, chickens for eggs and meat, different varieties of bananas and plantains, pitahaya, lemons. We hope the project continues, we’re learning a lot, this plot will be really good in a few years”.
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  • Claudia Palacios, Maryan Gúzmán and Danilo Valencia of CIEETS in Claudia Palacios' farm in Carazo. CIEETS has provided technical support to farmers through a CWS-supported project.
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  • Alan Josué Palacios, 10, his mother Claudia takes part in the CIEETS program supported by CWS in the El Tigre community, Carazo, Nicaragua
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  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by vinegar fly  so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I have different types of Melipona, I've got Mariola and Tamagaz."
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  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua.<br />
Photo shows Raymundo between rows of banana and plantains.<br />
Raymundo says: “I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_642.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Raymundo says: “through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_545.jpg
  • Claudia Palacios, El Tigre community, Carazo<br />
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“I’m mother to three children, I don’t have a husband, I’m single and I have to struggle to look after my kids. I have a little bit of land, but I don’t have seeds to sow and I don’t have money to buy seeds. A lot of people in this community are in the same situation. There are a few families who have someone who migrated to the US who can help them out to buy seeds, but most of us don’t. We’ve lost harvests several times, because it didn’t rain, or it rained too much, and so we’ve got no seeds left. When it rains too much, the crops die from disease or they’re washed away, when it doesn’t rain enough, they dry up, either way, us farmers lose everything”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190612_478.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
  • Alejandra Ahurto López, daughter of farmer Iván Antonio Arana, doing homework with her little brother in Santa Elena, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_880.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “we are working with Melipona. Melipona is a small bee that doesn’t have a sting, it produces special honey that’s medicinal, it’s very good for your eyes and your heart. Melipona doesn’t produce much honey, compared to the bees with stings, but it’s special honey, and we can sell it. I’ve had 11 hives, but we’ve been affected by vinegar fly  so I’ve only got six right now. The CIEETS team has taught us all about it. I have different types of Melipona, I've got Mariola and Tamagaz."
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_701.jpg
  • A woman sells corn on the cob and corn bread in a street corner in Diriamba, Carazo
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  • Daysi Solis García with her husband Fernando José Silva Parrales, El Tigre, Carazo
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  • Hanging around on a hammock in the house of Iván Antonio Arana, in Los Encuentros, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua.
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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
  • José Misael Selva Umaña, is promotor of agriculture in Carazo. “I’ve planted fruit trees, I monitor the rainfall in the area, and I work with the hives, I’m a meloponiculturalist. I have several hives already, this is a good initiative with the bees, it’s medicinal, the honey. And that’s a good thing for the family, and also it’s something we sell, we make some money from it. I’ve got oranges, lemons, bitter lemons, and ornamentals to attract the bees, so the bees don’t go very far. I also have calala and other fruit. Some of the hives are in logs, cut straight from the trees, others are in technified wooden boxes, that help us divide them and harvest the honey without disturbing them much. I have different types of bees too. And, we’ve got a good well from the project too, it’s clean”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190614_839.jpg
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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_546.jpg
  • Yohanna de Socorro Calderón Flores in Los Chilamates, Carazo, Nicaragua: “before this project, we used to only farm the traditional produce, wheat, rice, beans, that was it, nothing more. Not now though, we the new methodologies that we’ve learned, through the trainings and workshops. On my farm we have level curves, wind barriers, we are diversified. CIEETS has taught us all of that. We’ve set up a seed bank, because of the high risk of losing seed in drought or flooding. We’re planting yucca, bananas, plantains, fruit trees, citrus, pitahaya, lots of things. And now we have hygienic wells, covered up, nothing gets in them, with a pump. Before we had buckets and a rope, and stuff got into it. And, with the chickens, well, that is good for our own consumption, and to sell, we’ve made money from it”.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_1640.jpg
  • Keily Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_929.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_899.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_864.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_855.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_818.jpg
  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<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_815.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 />
<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_763.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua.<br />
Photo shows Raymundo between rows of cocoa and citrus trees on his farm.<br />
Raymundo says: “I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_604.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua.<br />
Photo shows Raymundo between rows of cocoa and citrus trees on his farm.<br />
Raymundo says: “I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_613.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón, El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua.<br />
Photo shows Raymundo between rows of yuca (cassava) and pumpkin on his farm.<br />
Raymundo says: “I have planted about 500 trees, coconut, mandarin, lemon, orange, papaya, grenadine, passion fruit, bananas, plantains, lots of yuca, and more".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_618.jpg
  • Raymundo Calderón<br />
El Mojón, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
<br />
Raymundo says: “through the project. I was given 25 chicks, and we were taught how to manage poultry, now I have 200 chickens".
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_20190613_583.jpg
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  • Pastor Adan García Díaz, pastor of the Nazareno Church in El Tigre helps Fernando José Silva Parrales move a sack of banana corms, for use by another project participant in a COEETS/CWS project in Carazo, Nicaragua
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  • Alan Josué Palacios, 10, his mother Claudia takes part in the CIEETS program supported by CWS in the El Tigre community, Carazo, Nicaragua
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