Written by Nayara Toscano, MESA Steward 2015-2016 Aloha everyone! I am Nayara, from Brazil. I started my program with MESA last year. I have been living in Hawai’i for 4 months now and I would like to describe what farming on the Big Island is like. Welcome to paradise! Besides big resorts, gorgeous beaches and Luaus, Hawai’i has a lot of …
Four MESA Alumni reunite at Sri Lanka’s “Toxin Free Nation” exhibition on March 6-8 in Colombo. Sanajana, Hemantha, Pushparaj and Ruwan (left to right) pose in front of two banners displaying both MESA and our Global Partner, Lanka Organic Agriculture Movement (LOAM). Written by Sanjana Silva, MESA Steward 2013 “Toxin Free Nation” attracted nearly one million …
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By MESA Host and Forging Farmers 2013 Awardee Lucas Howerter I haven’t done much traveling in Latin America in my life so far, but last November I was offered an amazing opportunity to visit a close friend in her home country of Ecuador. I met Fernanda when she was a MESA steward a few years ago …
Last November, MESA received an invitation from our Global Partners in Thailand, Earth Net Foundation, to attend the Agricultural Biodiversity Community (ABC) conference in Thika, Kenya. ABC began in 2011, as part of a joint Hivos and Oxfam Novib Knowledge Programme. The knowledge program “aims to break through the barriers that limit the scaling up, institutional embedding …
Meeting MESA’s Global Partners in Kenya: Mayra’s Story Read More »
This year’s EcoFarm conference brought together hundreds of farmers and farmer advocates as well as a 10-person MESA crew! Four stewards from Brazil, Mexico, Taiwan and Peru, four staff, and 2 board members/host farmers convened for “education, alliance building, advocacy, and celebration” among friends. The EcoFarm conference is held annually in January at the gorgeous …