Farmers on the Front Lines: Mexico’s Cacao Crops Are Recovering Thanks to Women Like This

CIMMYT gender research helps the Agrovita program, a collaboration between PepsiCo and Proforest, a UK-based agriculture non-profit, to design and promote gender sensitive training programs for smallholder cacao farmers in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico.

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Agrovita, which launched in 2021, aims to boost the productivity of 900 farmers over three years through actions that improve their communities’ food security by implementing regenerative farming practices across almost 30,000 acres. The program also aims to ensure that 50% of its beneficiaries are women.

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