Reigniting Organic Agriculture in Oaxaca
A community project is reintroducing traditional agricultural practices to a mountainous corner of southern Mexico.
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. SAN MIGUEL SUCHIXTEPEC, Mexico — Growing up in the rural Oaxacan town of San Baltazar Chichicapam, Faustino Hernández, 46, would help his parents grow corn, beans and squash on their plot of land. The produce fed the family, with enough left over to sell. As an adult, though, he hasn’t been able to keep up that practice. He took different jobs in a bigger city, and planting got harder as rains became more infrequent. One recent...
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