Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand Alum Project Leader: Dan Fusang Dan’s project tested and implemented organic rice production using organic compost in a small watershed area of Chiang Mai, Thailand. The goal was to teach local rice farmers and residents as well as visitors (100,000 people a year) to the Huai Hong Krai Krai Royal Development …
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: 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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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 …
This year marks MESA’s ten-year anniversary of offering international farmer-to-farmer exchange programs on behalf of sustainable agriculture. For ten years, we have built bridges between rural communities and sustainable agriculture advocates all over the world. Today, MESA is becoming: a fiscal sponsor for dozens of home country projects launched by MESA stewards once they return, …