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Battling the Rust - Nicaragua

Since late 2012, an epidemic of a fungus known as coffee rust, or la royal n Spanish, has ravaged Central America's coffee crop. In 2013 and 2014, I traveled to El Sontule, a small, rural, coffee growing community in the mountains of nor

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A coffee grower takes a break to drink some of his own product during the harvest.

A coffee leaf badly affected by the rust. The rust fungus slowly suffocates the leaves, causing them to drop, and eventually leading the plant to die.

A coffee grower carries his harvest to the washing and depulping station.

Another coffee grower loads his bags of freshly picked coffee onto a horse.

eyson Pérez pours out washed and dried coffee beans to separate them from their parchment. Freyder Gámez, his half brother, blows on them to help the parchment fly away.

Marvin Pérez waits for his coffee beans to be roasted at the local roaster's.

A coffee plant with cherries that are starting to ripen.

Due to the insecurity associated with growing coffee due to the rust and climate change, farmers are starting to diversify. Here, Wilder Pérez Villarreyna and his cousin Jeyson harvest black beans that Wilder will sell for additional income.

Freshly roasted beans taken out from the local roaster's.

In El Sontule, Nicaragua, Modesta Flores, sixty, takes a quick break from cooking in her daughter’s kitchen.

Mefalia Villarreyna shows off another way to roast beans at home without a roaster.

Mefalia Villarreyna worships at the local evangelical church.

Fall Armyworm - Ethiopia and Niger

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Mohamud Abdu, a farmer in Halaba, Ethiopia, holds a fall armyworm between his fingers. They are easy to find in his field and are causing a lot of damage. Spraying pesticides do not deter the fall armyworm, but the chemicals do damage the maize plan

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A farmer near Maradi, Niger is very worried about the fall armyworm. His maize field is infested and he has lost most of his crop. He says spraying pesticides does not have much affect.

Where the Wild Things Are - Kenya

Places

Silvaplana, Switzerland

Hamilton, Montana

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Kathmandu, Nepal

Davos, Switzerland

Halaba, Ethiopia

Silvaplana, Switzerland

Nagarkot, Nepal

Finca Irlanda, Tapachula, Mexico

Chisapani, Nepal

Peschiera del Garda, Italy

Missoula, Montana

Antigua, Guatemala

Glacier National Park, Montana

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Boudhanath, Nepal

Antigua, Guatemala

Antigua, Guatemala

Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Nepal