Key Ideas Guatemalan farmers are turning to organic pesticides, rooted in traditional practices and sustainable ideas, to replace expensive synthetic alternatives. Using a mixture of locally available plants, and ideas about farming passed down by ancestors, they are creating natural… Read More ›
Mark Hillsdon
Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America
In Guatemala’s Maya biosphere reserve local people are making a living from trees at the same time as increasing forest cover, showing nature is best protected by those who depend on it. Mark Hillsdon writes in The Guardian as part… Read More ›
