Climate Contest Update: CRS wins! Farmers win!
A very timely greeting from our colleague Michael Sheridan, based in Guatemala:
Happy Earth Day from Latin America! Today Green Mountain Coffee Roasters announced it selected our entry in the Changing Climate Change as one of four winners! We want to thank everyone who logged onto JustMeans over the last month or so to support our entry! Your support and that of Green Mountain means CRS now has the opportunity to work over the next several years with our partners at CIAT (the International Center for Tropical Agriculture). CRS and CIAT will implement the project we are calling CUP—Coffee Under Pressure: Climate Change Adaptation in Mesoamerica. CUP will help the smallholder coffee farmers we accompany adapt more effectively to the likely impacts of climate change.
Smallholder farmer livelihoods are very fragile indeed, and climate change threatens to make them even more vulnerable. We believe this project will help give farmers the information they need to make good decisions about their futures as farmers. Thanks again for helping to make it possible!
To read more recent news from the field, visit the CRS website.
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