Location: Cajamarca, Peru Alum Project Leader: Pedro Flores Pedro organized a 100-member farming cooperative whose producers grow paprika and sunflowers on 35 and 435 acres of land. The growers’ cooperative has helped to secure longer-term markets and improve income levels throughout their region in the northern Peruvian highlands. This year the organization is considering adding …
Location: Boralesgamuwa, Sri Lanka As a national-level NGO, Sewalanka has a dual mission: first, to enhance the capacity of rural communities to democratically identify and address their own development needs, and second, to provide services that contribute to the economically viable, socially just, and ecologically sustainable development of Sri Lanka. Based on local demand, Sewalanka …
Location: Lima, Peru El Huerto is the vegetable crops research program of Agraria La Molina University. Its main goal is to promote growing and consumption of different crops, to develop appropriate technologies, and to promote the use and recycling of local resources in order to pursue sustainable agriculture. At El Huerto (as members of Agronomy …
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Location: Quito, Ecuador Huayra Causay means “winds of life” in Ecuador’s indigenous language, Quechua. Huayra Causay’s team are pathfinders, dreamers and innovators who believe it is necessary to change our way of living in order to redress the balance between nature and humankind. Huayra Causay contributes to this redress by promoting and supporting alternative approaches …
How one inspired MESA steward linked consumers in Quito, Ecuador, with farms on the urban fringe. Farm in the City “Did you study something related to agriculture? Would you like to experience it in the field?” Seeing these words printed on a poster made me realize that although I had just obtained a degree in …