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What if we take certification as a starting point instead of a finish line? Is it possible to maintain the “alterity” within these certified markets as they rush to mainstream? What if, instead of comparing these differentiated coffee market segments to the corporate controlled conventional coffee markets, we look to the many examples of more local and alternative food networks?

Community Agroecology Network (CAN) and our partners PRODECOOP and CII-ASDENIC are collaborating on three-year project with the goal to enhance food security and build resilient food and agricultural systems that enable 740 households (approximately 4,440 people) in the Segovias region of northern Nicaragua to reduce and eventually eliminate los meses de las vacas flacas and more successfully resist the negative impacts to food security from climate change in the future.

Andrew Davis and V. Ernesto Mendez. "Prioritizing food security and livelihoods in climate change mitigation mechanisms: Experiences and opportunities in smallholder coffee agroforestry forest communities and REDD+". Policy brief based on an academic paper and book chapter looking at the carbon mitigation potential of smallholder coffee agroforestry.

2 Unidad: Comprendiendo los meses de las vacas flacas

4 Unidad: Diversificación productiva y de los medios de vida campesina

This is the summary document (in Spanish) of a Food Security and Sovereignty Exchange and Forum that CAN organized for Green Mountain Coffee Roasting in Nicaragua this past summer.