Farmers
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LIFE
Guatemalan Farmers Lose Their Harvests and Find Hunger Growing in Their Place
In eastern Guatemala, drought has destroyed crops meant to keep families fed when other harvests failed. Empty wells, lost investments,…
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BUSINESS AND FINANCE
Honduras Farm Planted Sunflowers for Cows and Harvested 70,000 Annual Visitors Instead
At Copán Ruinas, a family’s drought response became a sunflower attraction drawing mostly Honduran visitors. Behind the photographs lie dairy…
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ECONOMY
Cocoa Farmers Face a Bitter Twist as Heavy Rains Threaten Their Harvests
Cocoa needs rain, but a new study finds that intense downpours can undermine harvests. Evidence from Ecuador, Ghana, and Indonesia…
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AMERICAS
El Salvador Farmers Watch El Niño Turn Corn into Dust
In San Esteban Catarina, farmers who planted with faith now walk through brittle cornfields. El Niño has erased harvests, income,…
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BUSINESS AND FINANCE
Panama Geisha World’s Most Expensive Coffee Braces for Climate Swings
In Chiriquí, farmers who grow Geisha, the “world’s most expensive coffee,” are starting the 2025–2026 harvest with confidence in flavor…
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AMERICAS
Uruguayan Appeal to Save Life Becomes Today’s Governing Test 12 Years Later
Twelve years after José "Pepe" Mujica's UN broadside against market idolatry and corrosive individualism, New York honors the Uruguayan farmer-statesman.…
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BUSINESS AND FINANCE
How One Peruvian Farmer’s Battle Inspires Climate Liability Movements
Saúl Luciano Lliuya’s legal duel with a German energy titan RWE has ended, yet the tremor he triggered still travels…
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Who is Jhénifer Mojica Flórez, Colombia’s new Minister of Agriculture?
With extensive experience in the public sector and the protection of human rights, the new minister of agriculture must take…
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Do Our Habits Translate Into Support for Food Producers?
In the year 1996, during the second conference of Via Campesina, the International Day of Peasants' Struggle was institutionalized.
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“Nubia and children”, the YouTube channel of a farmer family
Due to the economic crisis caused by covid-19 and corruption in Colombia, a humble family decided to create a YouTube…
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