“Agroecology” is being taken up by families around Rabinal, a small town at the heart of Central America’s drought-stricken dry corridor
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskEvery week, half a dozen teenagers and 20-somethings from the local indigenous community, the Maya-Achi, pile into a truck and climb up pothole-ridden roads to reach small farms nestled into the hillsides. Some days they fill the truck with hundreds of infant trees. On others, they haul up bags of native seeds., remains the same: boosting “agroecology”.
In recent years, subsistence farmers—who make up 62% of households in the dry corridor—have lost between 50% About 500 families around Rabinal have taken up agroecology. In the hamlet of Xesiguán, Beatriz Tecú has rejected industrial fertilisers and herbicides for two decades. Those break down the soil structure, increasing the risk of erosion and reducing water retention. Now, along with protecting the leafy trees and native plants that dot her land, she has helped trap valuable groundwater and stopped fertile topsoil from washing away.
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