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Agroecology is a revolution!
How the Nicaraguan Rural Workers Association is confronting the climate crisis through developing agroecological farming and food sovereignty
Anna Maria Gonzalez
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NICARAGUAN small-scale farmers are among the tens of millions of people globally already directly affected by climate change-related weather extremes, for which they are least responsible.
Ana Maria Gonzalez owns an eight-acre organic smallholding in the hills of northern Nicaragua where she grows Fairtrade coffee, and fruit and vegetables.
For farmers like Gonzalez, climate change means erratic and unpredictable weather: “When it’s far too hot and we get too much rain straight after dry spells, our crops are ruined. This also provides ideal conditions for leaf rust and other diseases. One year we lost 40 per cent of our coffee crop as a result, for us it was like an earthquake.
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