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The Maya Women Beating Malnutrition and Becoming Entrepreneurs

By Mark Viales

A project in southern Mexico promotes land ownership and local food production.

This article is adapted from AQ's special report on food security in Latin America. To see other organizations working on this issue, click here. LOS ALTOS DE CHIAPAS, Mexico — Twisting and turning through winding mountain roads in a minivan in early August, a group of Maya women, garbed in colorful traditional tunics, chatted in their native Tzotzil language. Coming from different parts of Chiapas, in southern Mexico, they made their way to the remote village of Tzoeptic to meet another all-female Indigenous group. Eager to showcase regional recipes, organic soaps and textiles...

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