Curt Bowen, Executive Director of Semilla Nueva, goes from the air-conditioned offices of Guatemala’s Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (ICTA) to the tropical heat of coastal Suchitepequez and notices one thing: the innovative agricultural techniques discussed by the government are not reaching the eager minds of smallholder farmers. But there is new hope.

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Out of 830,000 farms in Guatemala, around 76% are smallholder farms, representing the majority of the farming population and accounting for a significant portion of agricultural production. Currently, Semilla Nueva’s programs only reach a fraction of those farms in ten communities on the Southern Coast of Guatemala.

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