Mexican farmers will teach Indigenous methods at German organic fair

Mexico volition nonstop 19 farmers from the nationalist “Sembrando Vida” (Sowing Life) programme to the integrated products commercialized just BIOFACH 2026, which volition tally from Feb. 10 to 13 successful Nuremberg, Germany.

According to a authorities property release, the farmers volition correspond the Amuzgo, Mam, Ódami, Totonac, Tzotzil, Yokot’an, Zapotec and different Indigenous communities astatine the fair, coming from the states of Chiapas, Chihuahua, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Veracruz. 

¡TREMENDO EJÉRCITO! 👏🏼❤️🇲🇽

Las y los guerreros de Sembrando Vida de Pijijiapan, Chiapas, muestran el resultado de su esfuerzo, mediante un tianguis de venta de productos, cosechados gracias a este noble programa.

¡SEMBRANDO VIDA ES TODO UN ÉXITO! 👏🏼👏🏼 pic.twitter.com/hD6yAKqxrw

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Nine of the farmers volition beryllium presenting coffee, cacao and Persian limes, each grown with integrated farming processes that enactment sustainable production.

The different farmers attending volition beforehand Mexican agriculture done networking activities aimed astatine cognition speech and accrued visibility of assemblage work.

BIOFACH is internationally recognized arsenic 1 of the starring platforms for the selling and promotion of integrated food. The annual commercialized fair brings unneurotic producers, buyers, certifiers and specialists from assorted countries.

Three farmers from Mexico’s Sembrando Vida programme are besides expected to instrumentality portion successful Fruit Logistica 2026, 1 of the world’s astir important events for the commercialized of caller effect and agri-food products, to beryllium held connected Feb. 3-6.

The seeds of the ‘Sembrando Vida’ program

Launched successful 2018, Sembrando Vida addresses some nutrient information and reforestation by helping agrarian farmers nutrient nutrient sustainably connected 2.5-hectare plots portion planting trees.

Participants indispensable beryllium onshore ownership and residence successful a socially marginalized municipality to articulation the program. Once enrolled, they person 6,450 pesos monthly (about US $370) positive seeds, plants, tools and different supplies to use agroforestry techniques successful the cultivation of crops. Beneficiaries articulation Farmer Learning Communities (CACs) wherever they make corporate accumulation projects and person method grooming astatine assemblage nurseries, biofactories and grooming centers.

To date, the programme covers much than 1.1 cardinal hectares crossed 24 Mexican states and has planted 1.1 cardinal trees, capturing an estimated 30 cardinal metric tons of CO2 annually. In a 2024 speech, President Sheinbaum said the programme supports 439,000 disadvantaged families successful Mexico and 40,000 successful Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador with an yearly fund of US $1.7 billion.

With reports from Milenio