Beginning next month, more than 40 agronomists and community organizers will fan out across the highlands of Nariño, Colombia, and along the agricultural frontier in Ecuador’s northern Amazon region to collect baseline data from more than 1,000 smallholder farmers participating in our Borderlands Coffee Project. We began working in earnest on the baseline survey back in January, and spent this week field-testing the survey. This photo essay shares images and details from the process. (Hold the cursor over the slides to read the copy for each photo.)
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