Tomatoes

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Sisters Maudilia and Lesbia Magaly Raxjal Casia, Mayan farmers and members of a local growers association, welcome visitors to their village farm site in Chuixilón, Santa Cruz Balanyá. These indigenous entrepreneurs, who successfully produce tomatoes, onions, and strawberries, demonstrate how floating cover technology adapts traditional farming to climate challenges. Their leadership in sharing climate-smart practices on their ancestral territory inspires agricultural innovation throughout Guatemala's highl

Local Led Innovation in Guatemala's Indigenous Communities: Building Climate Resilience Together

Through a Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture Lab project, small-scale producers use floating covers, blending traditional knowledge with new tech to transform farming and combat climate change impacts.

Promoting technology for horticulture production as adaptation to weather change in Guatemala

Led by Rolando Cifuentes, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG)

For highland farmers who face elevated risks due to weather change, this project identifies the most effective protective structures, irrigation technologies, practices to improve soil health, and postharvest management practices to ensure the production of high-quality, safe, and nutritious produce.

Guatemala

Mitigating soilborne diseases to improve smallholder farmer livelihoods and food security in Nepal

Led by Ram Khadka, Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC)

To ensure long-term food and nutritional security for farmers in Nepal, this project focuses on developing accessible technologies to reduce soil-borne pathogens to increase vegetable production yields.

Nepal