Photo credit: Will Parrinello and Jim Iacona.
In a time when "modern" agriculture is depleting many areas of Latin America as farmers seek higher yields, Jesus Leon Santos is taking the opposite route. He is using ancient agriculture systems and collaboration with peasant communities to turn drought lands into fertile ground for food production.
His home in the region of the Mixtec, in Oaxaca, Mexico, used to have one of the highest rates of soil erosion in the world, affecting 83 percent of the land, according to a UN study. On top of that, in the 1980's, ma...
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