From September to December families are busy at work in their farms harvesting coffee. They involve the entire family, before or after school to help out. This picture shows a family harvesting coffee. November 2010.
From September to December families are busy at work in their farms harvesting coffee. They involve the entire family, before or after school to help out. This picture shows the a family harvesting coffee. November 2010.
From September to December the families are busy at work in their farms harvesting coffee. They involve the entire family, before or after school to help out. This picture shows the a family harvesting coffee. November 2010.
In a project directed at increasing revenues by fully processing the local, high-altitude coffee, Tomas and Higinio toast coffee inside an old building built by the government and mining companies. The Ngäbes have recently protested the...
This photo was taken in a community in the mountainous region of Nicaragua. Featured in the photo are Volunteer Julie Westerman, and her Nicaraguan counterpart, Melba Perez. We are getting to know each other out on a farm her family owns. She is...
A village on the west coast of Madagascar, July 14th, 2011. Pounding coffee. A family matter. It’s about 10:30am. I just finished interviewing a women owner of a small stand where she sells “mofo vary” (rice bread), every morning. On my way...
A village on the west coast of Madagascar, July 14th, 2011. Pounding coffee. A family matter. It’s about 10:30am. I just finished interviewing a women owner of a small stand where she sells “mofo vary” (rice bread) every morning. On my way...
This photograph was taken in Mata Grande, Dominican Republic where my husband Taylor Joyal and I worked on a organic pesticide project with local coffee farmers. Inthis particular shot, one of our best friends, Mecho Fernndez shows off her...
This photograph is of coffee beans picked during the harvest in the mountains of the Dominican Republic where my husband and I worked with traditional coffee growers on an organic pesticide project. This photograph was taken in 2009.
Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Traditional dress
This photo was taken in July outside of my school the south west mountains of Bulgaria. In my community, which is 100% Bulgarian Muslim the women have a traditional dress that includes a head scarf and colorful pants called shalvary. Through out...
Environment; Food security; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
A village on the west coast of Madagascar. It’s July 15th, 2011. I want to fetch water at the fountain. But, once again, the flow is slow and it’s taking forever. I had brought the Economist to read. But, J… is sorting the coffee, taking out...
This is a picture of a very dear friend of mine, Felicia, hollowing out a dried Jicaro Fruit, in order to use it as a mug for coffee drinking!
They live in Costa Rica in the small fishing village on the golf of Nicoya, Colorado de Abangares. Her...