BBC World recently featured MESA in part 1 of the 2 part series “Farm Swap”. A BBC reporter visits Hawaii to interview Pedro Rios, a 2008 MESA Steward from Ecuador on Ke’ei Mauka Coffee Farm.
BBC World recently featured MESA in part 1 of the 2 part series
“Farm Swap”. A BBC reporter visits Hawaii to interview Pedro Rios, a
2008 MESA Steward from Ecuador on Ke’ei Mauka Coffee Farm. The broadcast explores Pedro’s journey and what Pedro’s personal experience reveals about the importance of farmer-to-farmer exchange programs (of which MESA is the only one of its kind).
From the BBC description:
“In part one: Pedro, an idealistic young Ecuadorian farmer, visits Hawaii. In many ways the eight main islands in Hawaii are a farmer’s paradise – with rich soil, year round crop growth, and wealthy customers all around. During his 4-month visit to Hawaii, Pedro visits a coffee plantation and learns how to encourage sustainable agriculture. But as well as discovering new farming techniques and sharing experiences to take back to Ecuador, what can Pedro teach Hawaiian farmers in return? And what can two farmers from different lands and with different objectives contribute to each other?”
First broadcast on Wednesday 17 June 2009
This broadcast link can be found here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/06/090615_farmswapdoc1.shtml
