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Project Kajol News
In 2014 we continued networking with local farmers around Lake Atitlan.
On Facebook we started a new page
Proyecto Kajol
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Proyecto-Kajol-Project-Kajol/661613693912513
and a new group for seed swapping, sharing information on organic farming, and promotion of national and local products and projects.
Semillas Kajol https://www.facebook.com/groups/682923261718153/
In Sololá, the mountains above Lake Atitlan, sustainable farming is the Mayan tradition.
We have on-going video investigations with 2 groups, both self-sustainable businesses that support large extended families and their communities with organic farming.
El Milagro de las Plantas Medicilnales
https://www.facebook.com/pages/El-milagro-de-las-plantas-medicinales/434673539992021
Rep. Luis Sicajau Cumes
Products. Medicinal herbs, remedies, oils, shampoos, cosmetics.
Asociación Mujeres Oxlajuj E
https://www.facebook.com/oxlajuje
Rep. Dominga Vasquez
Products: foods with Amaranth: drinks, ice cream, cakes, cookies, popcorn and flour.
Organic homemade pesiticides and fertilizers
AMARANTH
Funds we raise in the near future are pledged to go towards a thresher for Oxlajuj E. One machine can save the women more than 200 hours of labor preparing their product, radically increasing their production capacity.
Amaranth is a perfect food, high in protein and amino acids, effective in immediately controlling the high percentages of malnutrition in the region.
It also is resistent to glyphosate, the chemical used with GMO Round Up Ready seeds.
The big news in 2014 was the national protest against the Seed Patent Law. We managed to stop it, but Guatemala just passed another law called the Law of Industrial Property that gives corporations the right to patent seeds here.. and the movement continues. Farmers are witnessing negative results from the past 10 years of commercialization and mono-cropping.
Campesinos are organizing against genetically modified seeds and contamination of their hereditary biodiversity, and many consumers are finally on board.
