Tag: Guatemala

  • Women’s Day Special

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    The World Fair Trade Organization is celebrating Women’s History Month with a series of podcasts featuring Fair Trade Enterprises started and run by women. Allison Havens founded Yabal Handicrafts in Guatemala to keep alive indigenous weaving techniques and create livelihoods for local women. Today, the women producers are becoming the main income earners in their…

  • New Technology Helps Preserve Indigenous Culture

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    In an interview with Radio Australia, Dr Kirsty Gillespie discusses how new technology can help to preserve the music and culture of indigenous peoples: Dr Kirsty Gillespie is an ethno-musicologist has studied music and culture in the remote Lake Kopiago region in the highlands and the Lihir Island in New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea.…

  • Shut Up and Listen – Cont’d.

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    Peasant communities all over the world are beginning to realize that, although intensive agriculture might boost crop yields in the short term with seemingly little effort, in the long term it pollutes water sources and depletes the soil.  Many have decided to abandon intensive agriculture and revert to the traditional farming practices used by their ancestors for…

  • Become a WWOOFer and Travel The World For Next to Nothing

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    WWOOF — an acronym for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms — offers you a way to travel the world for next to nothing. (Normally, you pay only to get there.) At the organization’s website, you can search the database of organic farms around the world to see who’s looking for someone to help out. WWOOF hosts are those…