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By Rosa Angelica Sarabia I could hardly believe my eyes as we drove down the winding two-lane road from Xalapa to Huatusco. With the golden hour sun to our right, the scene became a glow of green as the light illuminated...
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The power of cooperation. With the collective effort of cooperatives the world can become a better, more inclusive and equal place. The Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union and Tadesse Meskela, cooperative leader, bring infrastructure for clean water to the community.
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International Day of Cooperatives July 3, 2021 The International Cooperative Alliance defines a cooperative as “an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled enterprise.” ...
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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a system that allows for consumers and producers to build a closer relationship within the food system. In this model, consumers directly purchase shares of the farms’ production at the beginning of a growing season....
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“¡Vamos a mí casa!”, Manuel implores me. After an hour of showing me his coffee fields, this brawny yet soft spoken Guatemalan farmer invites me to his home for lunch. It’s a hot, dry and cloudless day in the middle...
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