by scelysantoswp | Aug 3, 2022 | English
As an offshoot of our outreach, we will be selecting two youths from Yoro to complete the training program with the USDA funded Youth Conservation Corp. Through a grant with USDA, MDI will support their 6-month training (room and board, and 8 months stipend). These... by scelysantoswp | Jul 3, 2022 | English
A group of 2 MDI representatives, 2 IOC Farmers and a representative of our project (PhD student, Ana Quiñonez) visited 11 municipalities to present the Yoro Model and Yoro Biological Corridor. During these visits with municipal authorities, we obtained five... by scelysantoswp | Jun 3, 2022 | English
On April 8-10 2022, in Boston, USA, Dave King (USFS), Richard Trubey (MDI), and David Murillo attended the SCA 2022 annual meeting. David M. presented a poster entitled “Integrated Open Canopy (Ioc) Coffee (Coffea Arabica) As A Conservation Tool For... by scelysantoswp | May 3, 2022 | English
UNCW Economics Professor Peter Schuhmann has been awarded $55,278 as part of a more than $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate a new sustainable system for coffee cultivation. The grant, “GCR: Collaborative Research: Designing a... by scelysantoswp | Apr 23, 2022 | English
Coffee, that savior of the underslept, comes with enormous environmental and social costs, from the loss of forest habitats as woodlands are converted to crops, to the economic precarity of small-scale farmers whose livelihoods depend on the whims of international... by scelysantoswp | Mar 4, 2014 | English
Caz Taylor was awarded a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Growing Convergence Research program. This 5-year endeavor will help transform coffee production in Honduras into an industry that is environmentally, economically and socially...