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Dear Determined PIERRE’S PICKS Pierre has been waxing philosophical Humanitarians, lately, and you can join him in his favorite explorations of the nature of knowledge and humanity. magine, if you will, the anxiety looks di‡ erent depending on and uncertainty of living in community circumstance, desire a place plagued by political and agricultural product. We’re Enlightenment Icorruption and systemic helping co‡ ee farmers diversify Now poverty and overrun by violence. farms for better production and by Steven Pinker While that description fi ts scores boosting animal management Progress is real, and of areas around the world from techniques among indigenous science can prove the Middle East to regions across Lenca communities so they can it. Pierre’s review: Africa, it has been true for the better market their beef and dairy “Best book EVER!” people of Central America for products. We are working with decades. It’s no wonder families cheesemakers, a Honduran donut become so desperate they have bakery and a wooden toy maker all no choice but to uproot and in the district of Olancho, where Creating seek asylum in foreign lands. we’re also boosting tourism. Capabilities Most recently, we’ve seen All activities are by Martha that play out close to home. contributing to stronger Nussbaum The caravan of nearly 1,200 local economies. And when emigrants — many of whom money stays in communities, A Chicago University were fl eeing gang violence and more people prosper. philosopher hits lack of opportunity in Honduras This issue also features our close to home, or surrounding countries — riled work in Ghana, a town that went to espousing similar our leaders and set the United war with pesticides, a fascinating ideals to Heifer’s States on edge, once again, in infographic on water use and a holistic approach the immigration debate. look at the fi rst-ever goat festival to helping people. At Heifer, we understand the held by our team in Nepal. complexities that underpin the I hope you enjoy the issue and The Stone Reader issue because we face them every take time to consider the causes of by Peter Catapano day in our work, and not just in complex issues like emigration that and Simon Honduras from where the majority we deal with every day. No doubt Critchley of these emigrants fl ed. We face it these are issues that we all feel everywhere. A lack of land, capital strongly about, but let’s remember Think philosophy is and opportunities to succeed our common humanity and focus just for academics have forced people to seek jobs or on where we can come together to and professors? Think economic opportunities elsewhere. strengthen and not further divide. again and read this After examining root causes, collection of essays on we equip families with tools, Yours for a better world, modern philosophy training or capital to help them stay originally brought to rooted and earn an income that the masses by The allows them to weather existential Stone column in The storms. In Honduras, which you’ll Pierre U. Ferrari New York Times. read about in this issue, the work @HeiferCEO

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The Poison Apple || FALL 2018 HEIFER.ORG In 2014, the European town of Mals 12 voted to ban pesticides. The author of A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement talks about what led Mals to become the world’s fi rst pesticide-free community.

HEIFER GHANA Made in Honduras The Other In Olancho, there are a lot of hardworking, PLUS Ghana WATER AROUND THE WORLD creative people fi nding ways to make a How much do we 18 GET YOUR use? How much do 08 JAM ON we really need? living. But it’s not easy to sustain a small MADE IN 18 HONDURAS business in Honduras. Heifer is helping BEDTIME STORIES 40 FOR A BETTER WORLD connect new entrepreneurs to training and larger markets. COVER The Other Ghana Martina Sabaar of Ghana is Ghana’s economy booms on oil and cocoa building a new home with money 28 profi ts, but remote farming communities in she earned selling goats. Photo by Geo‡ Oliver Bugbee the Northern Region are stalled out. Lacking resources and opportunity, people here Top: have only two choices: leave or fi nd a way to Mefore Kuunmwine prepares make their farms more productive. A Heifer food at an open-air stove in her courtyard in Ghana. project is boosting goat production and Photo by Geo‡ Oliver Bugbee making staying home a viable option again.

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people. Like the story about the Women are NOT inferior to men. women who gave a neighbor a goat Both sexes benefi t when women even though Heifer didn’t give her are treated as equals. The idea one to begin with. These people that women are less valuable, less need their children to help with the intelligent or otherwise inferior animals, farming, carrying of water inevitably leads to spousal abuse, and numerous other tasks. Like child brides and increased risk of the American farmers of old and in living in poverty. In other words, a Europe, large families were the norm. community will never thrive as it America and Europe are should when half of the population is su‡ ering from a zero growth rate uneducated, barefoot and pregnant because of long-lasting reversible with no choice in the matter. Heifer contraceptives and abortion. Soon should seek to empower women there will be fewer and fewer young in order to raise up the whole people to support the elderly and community. Livestock alone cannot the economy of these countries. lift families into a better life. Countries like China and India are The truth, indeed, shall set us free. experiencing a shortage of girls DEBRA CARPENTER GREAT JOB because of selective abortion. Muncie, Indiana Your Summer 2018 issue had The approach Heifer is many great articles. “The Dirt on taking, that is to help people help Produce” gave a clear picture of themselves, is the right thing to what we need to do to restore our do. We have no right to tell these Q&A FALL soil to support healthy food. World countries to limit their populations. In Honduras and other Ark’s book reviews have led me to Natural disasters, disease and wars countries, Heifer many good books on this and other take care of that and always have. International is supporting important issues. Also, in this issue’s My suggestion would be to get entrepreneurs and their letters to the editor, a concern was the George Soroses of this world to families. What kinds of small expressed about what happens to invest in Heifer and organizations businesses would you like milk pouches from your school like it to really give people the to see Heifer support? milk program. May I suggest that kind of help they want and need. the recycling company TerraCycle MRS. GIRA FREIBERG might help with any recycling issues. Plainview, New York WE WANT Thanks for all you do! LOUISE EVANS In our Summer issue we asked TO HEAR Wynnewood, Pennsylvania readers to answer this question: FROM YOU! “When Heifer International works Please send your comments A DIFFERENT VIEW within cultures where women to [email protected]. The reader states “if you want to end are considered the inferior sex, Include your name, city, poverty, you will provide long-acting should Heifer work to change that and a telephone number or reversible contraceptives to as many thinking? Why, or why not?” email address. Letters may women as possible.” She obviously be edited for length and hasn’t been reading the wonderful The question concerning cultures clarity, and may be published stories of sharing and giving you who view women as inferior took online as well as in print. write about in every issue. me by surprise, I must say. This one Because of the volume of The people in every country should be a no-brainer. Whatever mail we receive, we cannot you help with every kind of self- the cultural belief, the truth remains respond to all letters. help aid are happy, caring, sharing the same and transcends cultures:

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04 LETTERS 44 HEIFER BULLETIN Readers respond Thousands Flock to Nepal Goat Festival 06 FOR THE RECORD Water use vs. water needs 46 HEIFER SPIRIT The Sweetest Way to 08 THE GOOD LIFE Support Farmers in Ecuador How to can your own strawberry jam 48 FIRST PERSON 40 MIXED MEDIA Taking the Lead Bedtime Stories for a Better World

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MANAGING EDITOR World Ark is the educational, infor- organizations, and of Global Impact. Austin Bailey mational and outreach publication of Federal and state employees may Heifer International. Its purpose is to designate gifts to Heifer through pay- SENIOR EDITOR further Heifer’s goals to end poverty roll deduction by entering CFC #12079. Jason Woods and hunger while caring for the Earth and to raise awareness of the issues © 2018, Heifer International. Passing WRITER involved in this work throughout the on the Gift® is a registered trademark Molly Fincher world. Heifer International is qualifi ed of Heifer International. Opinions ex- as a charitable organization under pressed in World Ark are those of the DESIGNERS Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Rev- authors and do not necessarily refl ect Pooi Yin Chong enue Code. Contributions to Heifer the views of either the magazine or PRESIDENT AND CEO John Houser International are tax-deductible to the Heifer International. Pierre Ferrari extent permitted by law. CONTRIBUTORS PUBLISHER Erik Ho‡ ner Ragan Sutterfi eld Since 1944, Heifer has helped 31 million Annie Bergman families, directly and indirectly, move ® Bethany Ivie Sumnima Shrestha toward greater self-reliance through The FSC Logo Chelsey Louzeiro Teriney Tobler the gift of livestock and training in envi- identifi es products Misti Hollenbaugh ronmentally sound agriculture. which contain wood from well managed 1 WORLD AVENUE Heifer International is a member of forests certifi ed in LITTLE ROCK, AR 72202, USA To change or remove an address, InterAction, the largest alliance of accordance with the EMAIL: WORLDARK•LIST. email [email protected] U.S.-based international development rules of the Forest HEIFER.ORG or call toll-free 877.448.6437. and humanitarian non-governmental Stewardship Council®.

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The good news is that 90 percent of people on the planet have access to “improved water,” which means they have water piped into their homes or can collect water from a protected well nearby. But there are still WATERWATER WATCH 663 million people in the world without easy access to clean water, and their health is at risk. WATER USE VS. WATER NEEDS LACK OF CLEAN WATER = DISEASE.

DRIEST CONTINENT DRIEST COUNTRY die each year from diarrhea caused by

AUSTRALIA AFGHANISTAN 1,500,000children contaminated water and inadequate is the driest continent suffers the most sanitation. Contaminated water leads to: Africa comes second. of Afghanis have access to 13 22% clean, safe drinking water. gallons of water / day cholera guinea worm dysentery other potentially fatal illnesses what the UN says people need for drinking, food prep In some Asian countries, water is plentiful but often polluted. and hygiene. Clean water access and sanitation go hand-in-hand...

FLOODING IS COMMON IN CAMBODIA IN BANGLADESH or less 5gallons of water / day An improved sanitation facility that 46 million people still lack any type of what people in some dry hygienically separates human waste toilet and must defecate outside, regions of Africa use per day. from human contact can protect human a dangerous practice that contaminates health. drinking water and spreads disease.

gallons80-1 of water00 / day of the population relies on of water that arrives in the average per-person pit latrine composting unsafe water sources. % homes through pipes has 40% 80 use in the United States toilet E. coli contamination, about the same flush toilet pollution rate as with surface water. of that Watering flowers or Water is scarce on about a third of the African continent. Flushing the toilet playing in the garden hose takes up the largest gallons share. minute AFRICAN CONTINENT SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 2 Access to improved sanitation: Newer model Dishwashers 300 million clothes washers INDIA gallons has the African people face 00:30 gallons largest number of people cycle daily hardships in 6-16 without access to toilets, but the 25 wash getting the clean More than a quarter of the population in government is working hard to change water they need. sub-Saharan Africa lives in households that. The “No Toilet, No Bride” campaign urban rural where someone must spend more than To-the-brim bath Showers encourages women to turn down dwellers dwellers gallons half an hour per round trip to collect gallons marriage unless their suitors build them bath water. 36 2 minute 82% 51% private latrines. SOURCES, WHO, UN, UNICEF, GUARDIAN

18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 6 7/9/18 1:58 PM The good news is that 90 percent of people on the planet have access to “improved water,” which means they have water piped into their homes or can collect water from a protected well nearby. But there are still WATERWATER WATWATCH 663 million people in the world without easy access to clean water, and their health is at risk. WATER USE VS. WATER NEEDS LACK OF CLEAN WATER = DISEASE.

DRIEST CONTINENT DRIEST COUNTRY die each year from diarrhea caused by

AUSTRALIA AFGHANISTAN 1,500,000children contaminated water and inadequate is the driest continent suffers the most sanitation. Contaminated water leads to: Africa comes second. of Afghanis have access to 13 22% clean, safe drinking water. gallons of water / day cholera guinea worm dysentery other potentially fatal illnesses what the UN says people need for drinking, food prep In some Asian countries, water is plentiful but often polluted. and hygiene. Clean water access and sanitation go hand-in-hand...

FLOODING IS COMMON IN CAMBODIA IN BANGLADESH or less 5gallons of water / day An improved sanitation facility that 46 million people still lack any type of what people in some dry hygienically separates human waste toilet and must defecate outside, regions of Africa use per day. from human contact can protect human a dangerous practice that contaminates health. drinking water and spreads disease. gallons80-1 of water00 / day of the population relies on of water that arrives in the average per-person pit latrine composting unsafe water sources. % homes through pipes has 40% 80 use in the United States toilet E. coli contamination, about the same flush toilet pollution rate as with surface water. of that Watering flowers or Water is scarce on about a third of the African continent. Flushing the toilet playing in the garden hose takes up the largest gallons share. minute AFRICAN CONTINENT SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 2 Access to improved sanitation: Newer model Dishwashers 300 million clothes washers INDIA gallons has the African people face 00:30 gallons largest number of people cycle daily hardships in 6-16 without access to toilets, but the 25 wash getting the clean More than a quarter of the population in government is working hard to change water they need. sub-Saharan Africa lives in households that. The “No Toilet, No Bride” campaign urban rural where someone must spend more than To-the-brim bath Showers encourages women to turn down dwellers dwellers gallons half an hour per round trip to collect gallons marriage unless their suitors build them bath water. 36 2 minute 82% 51% private latrines. SOURCES, WHO, UN, UNICEF, GUARDIAN

18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 7 7/9/18 1:58 PM good life TIPS FOR BETTER LIVING Canning is Her Jam By Molly Fincher, World Ark writer

eriney Tobler is the canning queen at The Root TCafé, a beloved restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas, specializing in locally grown organic food. When summer comes along and fresh fruit and vegetables are in great abundance, Tobler is there to preserve that fresh taste of summer in the form of jams, jellies and pickles to be enjoyed year-round. Tobler has been canning at home for eight years, ever since her son was born and her family came to visit and take care of her. They canned fruit, veggies and meat and stocked her whole kitchen. Teriney Tobler, right, teaches Jason Woods how to preserve summer’s bounty. “I was fascinated from then forward, so I started that it tastes better because that. They ask questions dabbling,” Tobler said. She it has lots of love in it!” about the fruit, they learn started out with fruit she While Tobler concedes about di‚ erent varieties and her kids picked from that making your own jam and then they get to pick farms during the summer is probably more expensive the fruit. When we bring and took o‚ from there. and certainly more time the fruit home my kids are “I love making my consuming than buying able to help clean the fruit own jams and jellies. I love at the store, she does it and do some prep work. knowing what’s going into for the love of the craft. They watch and observe them versus buying them “Regardless, it’s about the process and lastly are at the store. For the most the process for me. For my able to enjoy the fruit of part my kids eat only what home canning, my kids get their labor. In addition, my I make and they love it. to be a part of the process. kids are learning a dying Since I can it, it lasts just as We love going to the farms! craft. This is something that long as store-bought stu‚ . Sometimes we are lucky they hopefully will be able It has a fresher taste to it. and get to meet farmers to use in their homes in the And I like to jokingly say and their kids. My kids love future.”

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 8 7/9/18 1:58 PM The Root’s Lemon Strawberry Jam INGREDIENTS TOOLS • 5 cups fruit (about 2 quarts Funnel, jar lifter fully ripe strawberries) and lid lifter (can • 1 box SURE-JELL fruit be bought as a kit). pectin • 1 lemon • ¼ cup lemon juice • 7 cups of sugar

1. Wash your jars with soap and a potato smasher if you don’t 10. Place mixture on stove and water. have a food processor. add pectin.

2. Fill the jars with water and place TERINEY’S TIP 11. Bring the mixture to a boil in a large pot also fi lled with water You want to pulse it. You don’t and give it a gentle stir. so that the water level is about want to blend it—I mean, you can even with the tops of the jars. if you want, but I prefer pulsed TERINEY’S TIP because it’s still a little chunky. You don’t want to stir too much. I  nd it 3. Cover the pot and boil the jars creates more of a foam on your jam— Teriney Tobler, right, teaches Jason Woods how to preserve summer’s bounty. for 10 minutes. which for home canning, I don’t care, I use every bit. My kids don’t care that 4. Wash your strawberries and there’s a foam. But for canning for The trim the green o‚ . Root, I want a real clean jam or jelly.

TERINEY’S TIP 12. Let it come to a full boil and add Sometimes they have gushy parts, and 7 cups of sugar while stirring. you can just cut those bad parts off. 7. Measure 5 cups of the processed strawberries into a pot. TERINEY’S TIP A full boil does not lay back down [when 8. Add ¼ cup lemon juice. you stir]. It just keeps going and going even while you’re stirring it. Be careful 9. Grate in the rind of one lemon. watching it, otherwise it will boil over.

TERINEY’S TIP I like a bigger [grate] so you get 5. Process the strawberries by chunkier pieces, because I like the pulsing them in a food processor. distinct avor when you’re eating it. You can also mash them up with

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13. Bring to a rolling boil again and 17. If you don’t want foam in your TERINEY’S TIP let it boil for one minute. Keep jam, skim the foam o‚ the top. You want to make sure that it can stirring gently during this stage. seal properly, and if there’s sticky TERINEY’S TIP strawberry on it, it will not. TERINEY’S TIP It tastes ne, it’s just a visual thing. It happens very quickly. I know they You can add a little bit of butter to your 21. Place lid tops on the tops of the say a watched pot doesn’t boil, but they mixture to reduce the amount of foam, but jars with a magnetic lid lifter. are wrong! If you’re not watching it, for The Root we don’t add the butter to it. it can boil over really quickly so TERINEY’S TIP I prefer to pay attention. We’re still trying to keep everything sterilized. So you want to make sure 14. Turn the heat o‚ on the jars. Pour you’re not touching the undersides, the some of the hot water in another edges, but you can touch the top. When pot to sterilize the lids. Clean the I put them in my pot, I always make sure lids beforehand and cover them I layer them, because they’re easier to in this hot water to sterilize them. pick up. Because if they’re all dumped in Do not boil the lids, because it will 18. Fill your jars with jam using a there, it ends up being a big clump and a‚ect the plastic and compromise funnel and leave about a ¼-inch hard to separate. And this way it ensures the seal at the end. space at the top. I’m not going to have to touch anything.

Keep the jars covered in the pot so 19. As you get toward the bottom part they stay warm. You don’t want to of your batch, you can see ripples add the hot jam to cold glass jars. in your jam where it’s started to cool and solidify. When you see 15. Turn the heat o‚ the jam and the ripples, you know for sure it remove everything from the worked! stove. TERINEY’S TIP 16. Pull out the jars with a jar lifter. It’s always a relieving point to me 22. Screw on the lid rings. The jars Be careful—they are very hot! when I’ve made a giant batch, and I are still very hot, so use a towel get to the point where I can see that, to hold on to them. TERINEY’S TIP and I’m like “Ah! It worked!” I honestly It’s really important to take care with think I do it every time even though TERINEY’S TIP this step, with the sterilizing and then I’ve made tons. It’s such a relief With the rings, you don’t want to use removing them, because we’ve just when I see that little ripple. all your muscle weight to tighten them. removed bacteria and we want to keep They call it the two-nger test: you them that way. Because if you skip on basically just use two ngers [index these steps or compromise them, your and thumb], and that’s as tight as jam could spoil. And that’s no fun. And you want to go. Because if you go too you could get botulism and die. That tight, you can have sealing issues. is not a fun part. But, seriously. 23. Put the jars back in the big pot of hot water. Make sure that the jars 20. Carefully wipe the sticky o‚ the are covered by at least an inch. outside of the jars with a wet paper towel. Be careful not to 24. Bring to a boil, cover and let the touch the inside of the jars. jars of jam boil for 10 minutes.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 10 7/9/18 1:58 PM 25. Turn o‚ heat and let jars sit for a minute before removing your jars of delicious jam with your jar Teriney’s lifter! Each jar will make a popping sound as they cool down and seal. You can also check to make Favorite Jam sure they are sealed by looking at the top of the lid—it should be love peaches because anytime I make peach jam for a smooth surface with no raised people they always tell me it reminds them of their bumps. grandma’s jam. They say, ‘Oh, I used to eat this with my “Igrandma!’ ‘This reminds me of my nanna,’ whatever, 26. Wait 24 to 48 hours to open a fresh every time. And it is the first jam that goes. Because I make it jar and enjoy! Your jam will last at at home, for myself and for my kids, and it is the first one that least a year. everyone eats. And I’ve started adding liquor to some of them to spice it up, and they love it! TERINEY’S TIP Take peaches, boil water, drop them in boiling water for a little bit. Watch the tops of the cans. If they Immediately transfer to cold water, and the skin is supposed to peel start to pop up, they’re bad. o‚. That doesn’t always work for me; sometimes I like to just peel it with a peeler. Cut it, pull out the pit, then process it in your food “When you eat your jam and it’s processor. Then go through the same process as you would with all gone, which will happen, you can your strawberry or any other jam. You’re going to add your peaches, reuse the jars, you can reuse the rims, add your lemon, 5 cups peaches, ¼ lemon, then add pectin, bring it but you cannot reuse the lids. You can to boil, add sugar, bring to boil for one minute and then at the end buy the lids separately. you can add whatever flavors you want. Like at the end of mine I add liquor, because that’s what I like. But I’ve seen spiced, I’ve seen ginger peach. There’s all kinds of varieties that you can make. If I’m adding something with a high alcohol content, I’ll add it at the end so the flavor is still there and strong. But if you wanted [something] like a vanilla, you could add your vanilla pod while it’s boiling. If it’s a liquid with high alcohol, I add it at the end so that taste is still there, but if it’s like a spice or a vanilla, I add it while it’s cooking so that it’s really cooking into it.”

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 11 7/9/18 1:58 PM asked & answered THE POISON APPLE How One Town Settled the Pesticide Debate Interview by Erik Ho ner, World Ark contributor

Mals is a town of 5,300 residents in the Italian Alps, nestled against the borders of both Switzerland and Austria. In 2014, the town made headlines when its citizens voted to ban pesticides, sparking a new round in the international debate over certain chemicals in the food system. This debate rages in the U.S., too, where farmers, consumers and environmentalists butt heads over what amount of LEIST - genetic engineering, pesticides and herbicides are safe. Philip Ackerman-Leist, a sustainable agriculture professor at Green Mountain College in Vermont, was working in Mals as the fight over pesticides unfolded. He chronicled the conflict and considered how it fits into the global debate over chemicals and food production in his book, A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned

PHOTOS COURTESY OF PHILIP ACKERMAN Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement.

WORLD ARK: How did you get Southeast. While he was breeding for involved with farming? disease resistance and characteristics that would please consumers, he believed PHILIP ACKERMANLEIST: pesticides were the short-term solution My closest connection to farming was that would complement what the slow through my grandfather, Dr. Carlyle process of plant-breeding hadn’t quite Clayton, who was a plant pathologist achieved. The farm specialized in and breeder of peach tree varieties for peaches, but Grandad grew every fruit the southeastern U.S. In addition to he could in the Sandhills region of North creating more than a dozen peach tree Carolina, including grapes, nectarines, varieties, he also developed pesticide plums and melons, along with vegetables spray programs for various fruits in the and a fruit tree nursery. Grandad

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wasn’t shy about using synthetic region of northern Italy for a study knowledge of how to survive in such pesticides, and we had a lot of long abroad program at Brunnenburg harsh terrain and weather. I kept conversations about the challenges Castle and Agricultural Museum, returning and eventually settled into of organic fruit production. I kept a place dedicated to preserving farming there for three years in the looking for examples of successful the disappearing traditions of early 1990s. Part of my job was also organic fruit operations, which agriculture in the region. I was to take American college students to were few and far between at that immediately smitten by the various valleys to study the nuanced time but much easier to fi nd now. diversifi ed agriculture I saw at agricultural history of those the time, with farmers and their topographical niches. Brunnenburg What led you from North livelihoods clinging to incredibly Castle is perched at the entrance to Carolina to northern Italy? steep mountainsides with a tenacity the Vinschgau Valley, and Mals is at In 1983, I went to the South Tirol a‰ orded only by deep ecological the far upper end of the valley, about

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Generations of farmers perfected hillside cultivation.

the European red mite. I was one of every open space in the village the only people in the village who where I was living. I basked in wore a respirator and one of the only the beauty of the patchwork of Ruins are scattered throughout Mals. ones who wore much in the way of agricultural possibilities that Mals protective clothing. After three years put on display down below. a 90-minute drive from the castle. of spraying, I decided I couldn’t The 95-square-mile municipality do it anymore and came back to Was climate change somehow of Mals always stunned my the United States to try and fi nd implicated in this upslope students, with its array of castles in organic approaches to agriculture. movement of apple orchards? various stages of ruin, the compact The upward march of apples was splendor of each of its 11 villages, the When did you notice the shift the result of a twin conspiracy patchwork of pastures and hayfi elds, from traditional diversifi ed led by climate change and the fi elds of traditional grains, and farming to monoculture handsome profi ts. As the valleys iconography and architecture dating apple farming in Mals? and mountainsides have warmed, back more than a thousand years. From 1983 forward, I watched even in the 35 years I’ve been apple orchards take over more and going to Mals, apple growers What kind of farm were more of the South Tirol region, have seized upon the possibility you working on? and the orchards and their trellised to grow apples where they’d not I was working in the vineyards infrastructure kept appearing in been grown previously, and they and orchards of Brunnenburg higher and higher elevations of the were a‰ orded that opportunity Castle and Agricultural Museum, Vinschgau Valley. At the upper end by the high profi ts they could at the lower end of the Vinschgau of the valley, Mals became one of the earn even from a few acres. Valley. While it was a diversifi ed last bastions of traditional diversifi ed farm, much of my focus was on farming in the area. Friends of Why do you call it “Big Apple?” caring for the grapes and the wine. mine had a rustic farmhouse on a “Big Apple” ironically represents the During the summer, I was charged mountainside overlooking Mals, and conglomeration of power created with spraying the vineyards with I would go there to get away from all by a collection of smallholder pesticides, primarily against fungal of the intensifi ed fruit production farmers who started forming diseases but sometimes against that was commandeering virtually apple cooperatives in the early

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 14 7/9/18 1:58 PM Fences can’t keep out pesticides. Local farmers grow traditional grains.

20th century — cooperatives With a mere 10-foot spray bu‰ er vitality and a positive vision? that became highly successful between adjacent properties, organic While a number of men in Mals marketing engines, propelling the farmers stood no real chance of had been organizing forums to South Tirolean apple industry to avoiding pesticide drift, especially discuss a vision for the future of becoming the largest contiguous in a valley known for its wind that agriculture there, they hadn’t really apple-growing region in Central can blow for up to three weeks captured the attention of the media Europe within a matter of decades. without ceasing. But conventional or the regional politicians. They If you eat an apple in Europe, livestock farmers also didn’t want were also speaking in terms of there’s a 1-in-7 chance that it comes their animals consuming hay or possible pesticide bans. So when from the South Tirol. While most grass that was in close proximity to a few women began discussing apple farmers own fewer than a apple orchards. As one dairy farmer their frustration that there was dozen acres, when almost every told me, “The cow is the fi lter,” and little response from the media and farmer converts his or her land no farmer, organic or conventional, politicians, they decided to mount to apples, then the monocultural wants unhealthy livestock. The a letter-to-the-editor campaign, realities step in. Once you create grain growers in the valley were which elicited a strong note of a large-scale habitat for pests and just embarking on a renaissance in concern from government oš cials diseases — and especially when it’s growing the traditional grains of and the apple lobby. They were so a “perennial habitat” that doesn’t the region for consumers, bakeries successful that they then embarked allow for crop rotation to outwit the and restaurants, and they felt that on a guerilla arts campaign that “enemies” — then you’ve created an coexistence with conventionally- couldn’t be ignored. They decided imbalance and fi nd yourself reliant managed apples was impossible. to turn bedsheets into banners upon an armory of fungicides, Finally, analyses of schoolyards and mounted a stealthy stenciling insecticides and herbicides. in the region began showing that campaign among concerned multiple pesticide residues were families. As they prepared their In the book, you describe the present at levels that alarmed banners, a local beekeeper, Pia Mals community as being largely the local medical community. Oswald, reminded her colleagues organic by tradition. What that they needed to promote a were the practical impacts of And women played a huge positive vision of the future, not a Big Apple’s drifting sprays? role in the campaign, bringing polarizing campaign that would

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 15 7/9/18 1:58 PM asked & answered THE POISON APPLE

Residents came together to protest pesticide use. Residents protested “Big Apple” farming.

result in fi nger-pointing. At that growers moving in below? there were a few people outside point, the campaign evolved into Many of the farmers in Mals of Mals who championed the calls for a pesticide-free future for expressed to me that it’s generally pesticide-free initiative, most of my Mals. Banners were hung up under the right of a farmer to decide former fruit-growing colleagues cover of darkness late one summer what to do on his or her own land. considered the Malsers to be a night, and the next day, banners were However, when those actions fringe element from a place where hanging from balconies, fences and infringe negatively upon others, people had always thought and even in front of the local monastery. the farmer doesn’t have the right to behaved a little di‰ erently. Few The citizens of Mals believed continue those practices. Pesticide suspected that the Malsers would that their calls for a pesticide-free drift creates a negative impact for pass a referendum with a stunning town were tightly aligned with the neighboring farms, in some cases three-quarters majority, much “precautionary principle,” meaning jeopardizing their entire income, as less be able to enact precedent- that those who produce potential in the case of organic farmers who setting ordinances to hopefully toxins or other dangers must prove not only can’t sell their products guarantee a pesticide-free future. the safety of the product instead if they are contaminated with of putting the burden of proof on pesticide residues but can also risk Do you know if that decision has citizens to prove the associated losing their organic certifi cations had an eŒ ect beyond the town? risks. The U.S. has been slow, at if the pesticide residues persist. If “Big Apple” and its allies had ever best, in adopting the precautionary There were, of course, some suspected Mals would leap into the principle in comparison to the tempestuous debates, and even international spotlight, they would rest of the world, and the story of some threats of bodily harm. Some have paid much more attention Mals is yet another example of of the people promoting a pesticide- to what they treated as the follies why we need to inform the public free future had their homes of “a bunch of green crazies.” Mals about the merits of thinking in this and other property vandalized. has become not just a beacon of manner, both as voting citizens Nonetheless, those advocates tried hope for communities seeking to and better-informed consumers. to maintain open dialogue and ensure the health of their people fi nd common ground. I certainly and landscapes, but also a model for How would you characterize got an earful from fruit-growing how ordinary, untrained citizens the dialogue between the friends in the village where I lived can become e‰ ective advocates for farmers of Mals and the apple further down in the valley. While sustainable agriculture. Mals is now

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 16 7/9/18 1:58 PM Cover crops prevent erosion.

Mals celebrates a unique food culture. Morning deliveries of local milk still happen daily.

touted as the world’s fi rst pesticide- ecosystem. The best approach to health in the town of Mals. free community by way of a public a pest or disease issue is to assess When I left my respirator and referendum and upheld as a model that ecological balance, make any rubber suit behind in the South throughout the European Union. necessary changes and then follow Tirol 25 years ago, I left behind an Documentary fi lmmakers from up with any necessary organic approach to agriculture that I was Japan, Australia, Germany, Austria interventions. In some cases, a no longer willing to participate and elsewhere have descended upon farmer may decide to intervene with in as a farmer. What I didn’t have Mals to tell this incredible story. targeted use of a specifi c synthetic at that point were time-tested pesticide — a di‰ erent approach models for economically successful When we talk about sustainable to pesticide use from what the farms not reliant on synthetic agriculture, is the goal always to citizens of Mals were confronting. pesticides. Now I’m focused on use no chemicals at all? Or are They found themselves facing an exploring beyond the farm scale chemicals sometimes necessary? infl ux of apple farmers applying and unveiling the narratives of the “Sustainable agriculture” is used to pesticides at quantities virtually communities that have consciously describe a number of management unrivaled in Central Europe. The adopted a pesticide-free future. approaches, but most experts tend to massive conversion of the landscape If there’s one lesson I’ve learned agree that farming without synthetic to a vast monoculture meant that from the story of Mals, it is that pesticides depends upon an pesticide drift from dozens of we have to move beyond the idea ecological system that is in balance, di‰ erent chemicals sprayed 20 or of organic farms as the answer — both within the farm system 30 times a year posed a serious “organic communities” are the more itself and with the surrounding threat to human and environmental sustaining and resilient objective. ■

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 17 7/9/18 1:58 PM Made in Honduras

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 18 7/9/18 1:58 PM Made in Honduras In the Department of Olancho, Heifer is equipping entrepreneurs to meet their full potential. But the strategy doesn’t end with individuals—the end game is to boost the economy of the region as a whole.

By JASON WOODS, World Ark senior editor Photos by CHELSEY LOUZEIRO Heifer communications specialist

CATACAMAS, HONDURAS — The week cousins Jorge Sanchez and Randal Nieto planned to throw in the towel on their cheesemaking business and fi nd new careers, a stranger came looking for them. Assuming he worked for the Ministry of Health and that the visit would now be a waste of time, the business owners tried to send him away. But the stranger politely persisted. “Heifer came and asked for time,” Jorge Sanchez said. “They said, ‘Hang on and we will try to solve these problems together.’” Olancho gives o„ a distinctly Texan vibe. Raising cattle is big business in the region, and cowboy hats and boots are common among local men. The department, which is about the size of El Salvador and known for its spirit of self-reliance, nearly became an independent republic in the mid-1800s. That spirit leads to a naturally entrepreneurial mindset among its people. But opportunities aren’t always readily available. At the time, Jorge Sanchez and Nieto thought Francisco Sanchez sells his emigrating to the United States, where they have family, handmade wooden toys with was their next move. “It is a reality that we face in Honduras the help of Heifer Honduras. that only the strong survive,” Jorge Sanchez said.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 19 7/9/18 1:58 PM Jorge Sanchez (left) and Randal Nieto (right) in front of Prolau, their dairy processing business. PHOTO RUSSEL BY DUBREE

But three years later, the cousins are still in business with their Prolau “Now we are telling our family to come back Processing Plant. “Now we are telling our family to come back,” Jorge [from the United States]. We have jobs for Sanchez said. “We have jobs for them. them. They no longer have to be foreigners.” They no longer have to be foreigners.” Jorge Sanchez and Nieto began – JORGE SANCHEZ, co-owner of Prolau Dairy Processing Plant operating Prolau in 2013 with energy and ambition. But for two years, the processing plant didn’t that Jorge Sanchez and Nieto have production practices of the business. turn a profit. During that time, more knowledge about the business, As Heifer Honduras worked with Prolau increased the amount of higher quality standards and o™cial Prolau, Jorge Sanchez and Nieto daily milk processed from 60 liters legal certifications, Prolau can have reinvested earnings into plant to 1,000, but the cousins didn’t sell its cheese directly to buyers. equipment to continue growing. know how to price their cheese, The project is di„erent than many Currently, the plant turns 4,000 to and poor production processes Heifer projects from years past in 4,500 liters of milk into cheese daily stifled their business’s potential. that no tangible resources are given. and supports eight full-time jobs. A lack of access to markets Instead, Heifer technicians focus on About 300 families provide milk meant Prolau had to sell the cheese giving participants the knowledge to Prolau. The co-owners work with to middlemen who paid much less and expertise to navigate credit the farmers to teach them the best than the product’s worth, then hiked and loans, create a product identity, practices for milk production and prices up when they resold it. Now and improve the accounting and collection. They also pay the highest

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 20 7/9/18 1:58 PM PHOTOS BY DEREK ODELL DEREK BY PHOTOS

Milk is fi ltered for purity.

All milk is tested for safety. Blocks of cheese await packaging.

prices in the area for milk. the craft began at 12 years old “We pay 50 cents more per liter and hasn’t yet faltered. “Wood is than other plants,” Nieto said. “We something beautiful,” he said. sacrifi ce some of our profi ts to Though experienced and invest in our producers.” Prolau also motivated, Francisco Sanchez had donates sweet whey byproduct from no business experience and didn’t the plant to farmers for feeding pigs. know how to make his dream a The next step for Prolau is reality. So a friend put him in contact getting cheese into supermarkets, with Heifer Honduras technicians. which will increase profi ts and Francisco Sanchez met and help the business continue to politely listened to the Heifer grow. Jorge Sanchez and Nieto representatives. At the end of the are hopeful about the future of meeting, he bluntly said, “I drastically the business because of the work do not believe in these projects. I’m they’ve put into their product. not interested.” He had seen too “We are confi dent that our many local projects from other cheese is really good,” Nieto said. organizations come and go, leaving little of value. Olancho Pride But the technicians, assuring Heifer Honduras has helped develop an “Olancho Pride” seal (top) for Francisco Sanchez longed to start Francisco Sanchez of Heifer’s services and products made in a business based on his passion seriousness, asked him to think it Olancho, like Francisco Sanchez’s for woodworking. His love for over. “I talked to my spouse about it,” wood carvings.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 21 7/9/18 1:58 PM Francisco Sanchez said. “And she said, ‘What are you going to lose?’ I said, ‘You’re right. I won’t lose anything.’” He began specializing in carving toys, which gave him a creative outlet and a product uncommon to the area. With Heifer’s business development support, Francisco Sanchez has been successful so far. “With Heifer, I’ve learned—maybe the word isn’t ‘learn.’ Heifer has helped me realize what I can do.” Francisco Sanchez’s woodcarving business and the Prolau Processing Plant are just two of the 104 small enterprises Heifer Honduras supports in the Department of Olancho. Heifer Honduras’s assumption is that the strong businesses it supports will not only help the families who own them but also Francisco Sanchez holds one of his handmade wooden toys. provide steady paychecks to the farmers who provide the milk, “Heifer has helped me realize what I can do.” corn or meat needed to make the products. At the beginning – FRANCISCO SANCHEZ, woodworker of the project in January 2016, participating businesses worked 10 Facts about Honduras

Honduras means “depths” in BELIZE Spanish and most likely refers BAY ISLANDS to the Bay of Trujillo’s deep waters. The apocryphal story is

Trujillo that Christopher Columbus, after THE MOSQUITO GUATEMALA COAST surviving a tropical storm and

HONDURAS docking in what is now Trujillo, Copán Ruins Catacamas exclaimed, “Thank God we have OLANCHO escaped these treacherous depths!” and named the area Honduras. Tegucigalpa EL SALVADOR The country’s Bay Islands sit NICARAGUA on the second-largest coral  reef in the world.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 22 7/9/18 1:58 PM with 499 suppliers. As of December an “Olancho Pride” seal to certify 2017, 3,366 farmers supplied the products and services that come project businesses. In the same from the area and are made with time period, the 104 businesses local materials and labor. Visitors hired almost 1,200 employees. to the area can also collect passport Tourism is another part of the stamps from all the municipalities economy-boosting strategy in they visit. A professional chef is Olancho. The department isn’t helping recover and refi ne traditional known as a tourist destination, partly Olanchano recipes for restaurants Heifer Honduras supports because its history is scarred by in the department. One meaty small-scale food vendors. violence related to drug tra™ cking. traditional dish, tapado olanchano, But as Olancho becomes increasingly uses the pre-Columbian indigenous safer, travelers are starting to enjoy tradition of using plantain leaves its natural parks, distinct culture to cover salted and smoked meats and friendly locals. One of the and sausages as they cook. highlights is the Talgua Caves, also “We’re promoting products known as the Cave of Glowing and services with a cultural Skulls for the calcite-covered identity,” said Beatriz Pozo, Heifer skeletal remains that eerily refl ect Honduras project manager. “We’re light. The cave is thought to be a distinguishing Olancho from the rest burial site from around 1,000 B.C. of Honduras, developing this brand.” Heifer Honduras is working with tour companies, hotels and Doughnuts to Dollars restaurants to attract tourists All the small businesses supported by to the area and raise the quality the Heifer project in Olancho make and capacity of businesses. products culturally or historically Heifer Honduras helped create important to the region. For example, Artisans are capitalizing on their skills.

Honduras’s Mosquito Coast There are more than 200 isn’t named after the insect species of mammals in  but the indigenous Meskito  Honduras; a little more people. When the British came, than half are bats. their pronunciation attempts begat “mosquito.” In the center of the The Copán Ruins in Honduran fl ag sit western Honduras preserve  fi ve stars—one for  what was once one of the each country of the former most densely populated cities United Provinces of Central in Mayan civilization. The America. The two blue stripes ruins were named a UNESCO represent the Caribbean World Heritage Site in 1980. Sea and the Pacifi c Ocean.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 23 7/9/18 1:58 PM Maria Bonilla and Alex Gonzalez started their own bakery.

In 1969, Honduras Short story author In 2011, the and El Salvador fought O. Henry coined Honduran 7 a one-month war 9 the term “banana 10 government known as the Football War, republic” while in passed a law banning smoking because it coincided with Honduras, writing about in closed spaces, both private riots during FIFA World Cup the fi ctional Anchuria, a and public, and requiring qualifying games between stand-in for Honduras. smokers to stand at least six the two countries. feet away from nonsmokers in any open space. Under the Expatriates send $4 provision, family members billion in remittances or even visitors who are 8 back to Honduras bothered by second-hand every year. For context, smoke can call the police to Honduras’s gross domestic stop someone from smoking product is about $22 billion. in his or her own home.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 24 7/9/18 1:58 PM Alex Gonzalez demonstrates how his wood-powered oven works. Maria Bonilla processes ingredients.

Rosquillas are often eaten Rosquillas are ready for sale. with morning co’ ee. The bakery churns out 3,600 doughnuts a day.

“Now our product is all over. We can go everywhere we want.” – MARIA BONILLA, co-owner of Rosquilleria D’Cata

Olancho is Honduras’ largest business Rosquilleria D’Cata in honor Bonilla says marketing is her artisanal dairy producer and home of Bonilla’s mother, Catalina, who business’s biggest weakness, but to the country’s largest forestry helped start the business before she in two years, with hard work and resources, so those businesses are passed away. Heifer Honduras’ expertise, they traditional occupations. Heifer helped the couple will be able to compete with the When Maria Bonilla and Alex develop a brand and jump through biggest bakers in the area. Gonzalez started a bakery, they found all the legal hoops necessary to “Heifer is here today but won’t be their best seller wasn’t loaves of bread register their business with the tomorrow,” said Adalberto Castellanos, but a particular regional specialty. government and obtain a bar code. Heifer Honduras fi eld technician. Rosquillas look like doughnuts, but “Now our product is all over,” Bonilla “The people already know what they they are crunchier, made from said. “We can go everywhere we want, need. We don’t do things for them, corn and not as sweet. Typically, supermarkets and gas stations.” we teach them how to do it.” ■ they are eaten with co„ ee in the Rosquilleria D’Cata now counts morning or after lunch. Although seven employees—all within the rosquillas are popular throughout the family. Together, they bake 3,600 BETHANY IVIE, DIGITAL country, Olanchano rosquillas have a doughnuts a day, using 350 pounds ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST, reputation for being particularly tasty. of corn meal. Bonilla doesn’t AND MISTI HOLLENBAUGH, Bonilla and Gonzalez began mind the work. “I like my job a CREATIVE SERVICES working with Heifer Honduras right lot,” she said. “I don’t get bored.” In INTERN, CONTRIBUTED around the time they changed their fact, in her free time, she usually TO THIS STORY. focus to rosquillas. They named the just fi nds more work to do.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 25 7/9/18 1:58 PM How to Make Pupusas Like a Pro

Honduran pupusas topped with encurtido and pickled onions. PHOTOS BY PHILLIP DAVIS PHILLIP BY PHOTOS n the fall of 2013, Luis Vasquez into taco night. “I realized there that traveled from Sabana Grande, I liked to cook for other people.” Honduras, to volunteer at After his time at the Ranch, IHeifer Ranch in Perryville, Vasquez looked for a job in a Arkansas, for a few months, mainly restaurant. Eventually, he began to improve his English. The next working at The Root Café in Little year, he went back to the Ranch Rock, Arkansas. As of August, for another three-month stint. Vasquez is the kitchen manager “Three months turned into six and Honduran cuisine specialist months, six months turned into a for new Little Rock restaurant year,” Vasquez said. “And then a year Dos Rocas, which specializes in turned into just moving to Arkansas, Latin American street food. living here and making this home.” Pupusas, or stu„ ed corn tortillas, Luis Vasquez, kitchen manager at Dos At the Ranch, Vasquez discovered are one of the foods Vasquez misses Rocas in Little Rock, shows World Ark a love of cooking. “One day at the the most from home. “In Honduras, senior editor Jason Woods how to Ranch, my housemates wanted to everywhere you go, you see pupusas,” make pupusas. make tortillas. I didn’t want to make he said. “I love pupusas—they have tortillas, but they started making everything I need in a meal, and Tuesday through Sunday. Vasquez them, and I was like, ‘You’re doing it they fi ll you up. You can add literally made sure pupusas are on the menu wrong.’” Vasquez helped make the anything you want in them.” at Dos Rocas, but if you’re not going tortillas, refried beans and pico de Dos Rocas, at 1220 S. Main in Little to be in Little Rock any time soon, he gallo. Soon, every Friday night turned Rock, is open for lunch and dinner shared a recipe you can try at home.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 26 7/9/18 1:58 PM Pupusas (Makes 8)

Ingredients • 2 cups Maseca or other corn flour masa • ½ cup vegetable oil • 1 cup warm water • 1 tablespoon salt • ½ tablespoon cumin • 1 pound Oaxacan cheese, salted mozzarella or Honduran quesillo, shredded

1. Mix dried ingredients (masa, salt, cumin). Add oil and water to the dried mixture and mix by hand. Add more water if necessary. 2. Divide mixture into eight balls. 3. Grab a ball with your hands and make a hole in it, add cheese, then close the hole. By hand, flatten the ball into a tortilla. 4. Grill for three minutes on each side.

Refried beans (You can add refried beans to the pupusa filling, or you can serve them as a side.)

Ingredients Encurtido • 16 ounces canned or two cups cooked red beans (Topping for the pupusas) • ¼ cup vegetable oil Ingredients • ¼ sweet onion • ½ medium cabbage

1. In a cast iron skillet, warm oil. • 1 carrot 2. Add onions and cook until soft. • cilantro 3. Add beans and simmer for 10 minutes. • salt and lime juice to taste 4. Put beans into a food processor and pulse until smooth. (Alternatively, you can smash the beans 1. Grate the cabbage and carrot, with a potato smasher or by hand). chop the cilantro. 5. Put beans back in the skillet and cook for a few 2. Mix together. more minutes. 3. Add salt and lime juice.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 27 7/9/18 1:58 PM The Other

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 28 7/9/18 1:58 PM The Other Ghana Accra dazzles with shiny new construction and a bustling populace making the most of a booming economy. But far away from the capital city, momentum slows. Heifer International is bringing resources to remote communities getting left behind.

BY AUSTIN BAILEY, WORLD ARK MANAGING EDITOR PHOTOS BY GEOFF OLIVER BUGBEE

o road to the community of Sidontenge even existed until a few years ago. And today, the dry riverbed that connects paved road to the remote cluster of mud-walled huts is still impassable to all but the most Nskilled and well-equipped drivers. Vehicle trac on the road is rare. The orange dirt is packed smooth, though, by women toting charcoal and shea nuts for sale in the nearest town of Tuna, a four-hour walk away. This tiny community with no electricity, schools or stores feels worlds away from Ghana’s capital city, 300 miles to the south. Accra sparkles with tower cranes and new construction funded by o­shore oil drilling and cocoa profits. Swarms of walking street vendors do steady business selling food, electronics and toys to drivers held up in dense trac. Judging from all the bustle, it’s no surprise that Ghana’s economy ranks among the fastest-growing in the world. Paulina Dikontey But in Sidontenge and other remote communities shares breakfast in the country’s Northern Region, some families with her grandsons. find their fortunes stalled out, or even getting worse.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 29 7/9/18 1:58 PM The job of fetching water falls most often to girls.

Climate change and declining soil fertility make farming less productive, forcing families to scale back to one meal a day some parts of the year.

Climate change and declining soil participants hope their herds will grow, courtyard. The homestead teems fertility make farming less productive, and that proceeds will yield enough with people but not much else. There forcing families to scale back to money so they can a­ ord to eat more are plenty of children, but no toys one meal a day some parts of the than just one meal a day. It seems like for them to play with and hardly any year. Water sources are becoming a modest goal, but in the Northern clothes for them to wear. With no dirtier and less reliable. And although Region, resources of all kinds can be wells or boreholes in the community primary education is compulsory remarkably hard to come by. and the streambeds reduced to a and free of charge in Ghana, school trickle awaiting the annual rains, remains out of reach for children in Starting with Nothing there’s no water to wash clothes remote areas who would have to walk There are no shops in Sidontenge, with, anyway. The sour smell of for hours each way, or who have to and even if there were, Nkaanyine fermentation tinges the dusty air. No help in the fi elds if they hope to eat Jielta has no money to spend. electricity means no refrigeration, so that night. Nevertheless, she gets herself and her many of the foods the family eats are Heifer goats only recently arrived family through each day despite the fermented to prevent spoiling. Dawa in Sidontenge, passed on from utter lack of the basics: food, clothes, dawa, a meatball-like high-protein women in neighboring communities medicine. Her home, like those food made from the seeds of an who are already realizing the perks of all her neighbors, is a u-shaped indigenous tree, ages in a bowl on of raising goats for money and confi guration of squared-o­ mud the roof. And the makings of pito, a meat. As this chain of giving fans out rooms topped with mud-and-branch sorghum-based beer, marinate in a across needy communities, project roofs, all surrounding a swept dirt calabash bowl in the corner.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 30 7/9/18 1:58 PM From left, wives Nkaanyine, Denenbe and Akua Jielta with husband Sodor.

Nkaanyine Jielta is one of three “If he marries one wife, one wife wives of Sodor Jielta, and the family alone cannot do all the work on the has 20 children in all. Polygamy is farm,” explained Stephen Dery, a more common than not in some cultural interpreter translating from rural parts of Ghana, and not Birifor, one of the more than 250 necessarily related to any particular languages and dialects spoken in religious practice. It’s an economic Ghana. “When you have two or three strategy borne of laws and tradition wives, you have more hands.” that favor male control of land, and It was Nkaanyine Jielta’s sister the necessity to have as many hands wife, Akua Jielta, who heard working that land as possible. This about Heifer International’s work system is changing as many young nearby and started talking up the people leave the family farmlands possibilities. Women from all the to fi nd work in cities and on cocoa surrounding households joined farms, negating the need for larger together to ask for Heifer’s help, and families. But for many people group members received their West remaining in the rural communities African dwarf goats last year. The of Ghana’s Northern Region, the animals all have covered, mud- tradition of men marrying more walled pens to sleep in, and they Widow Paulina Dikontey holds one of the goats she’s raising to sell. than one woman continues. get vaccinations and veterinary

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 31 7/9/18 1:58 PM care when needed. A few project participants have sold goats already, but most are waiting for their goats to reproduce enough so they can fi rst fulfi ll Heifer’s requirement that they pass on the gift to other families. Caring for the goats so they will thrive and produce o­ spring to sell is top priority in the Jielta household, where the pen gets swept clean twice a day and teams of children watch over the goats while they graze. “We hope for relief from our burdens,” Nkaanyine Jielta said, cradling her dozing baby daughter Biiboro in her lap. Ill with malaria, Biiboro was limp and listless. While malaria medication for children costs only about the equivalent of $1 U.S., the medicine was still out of her reach. So the baby’s treatment Watching over grazing animals is a day-long chore for many boys in Ghana’s rural areas.

While malaria medication for children costs only about the equivalent of $1 U.S., the medicine was still out of her reach. So the baby’s treatment consisted of what her family could a€ ord: wild herbs and prayer.

consisted of what her family could a­ ord: wild herbs and prayer. “A doctor would be better,” Biiboro’s mother acknowledged. Once some goats are sold, she said, she will have money to enroll the whole family in Ghana’s national health insurance plan so they can go to a doctor and get medicine whenever they need it.

All Work, All the Time It’s not that school isn’t important to families here, or that the children of Sidontenge don’t want to go. But crops and animals survive only when tended, and everyone has to work to keep cooking pots fi lled. So for now, only two of Laafar and Mwinlier Kuutapoma’s seven children reliably Nkaanyine Jielta take the mile-and-a-half walk to holds her daughter, school each day. who is sick with Twelve-hour shifts herding the malaria. cattle usually keep the slingshot boys

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 32 7/9/18 1:58 PM The slingshot boys of Sidontenge take their lunch break.

of Sidontenge too busy for studies. Sons Mwinkaa, 10, Darrno, 11, and Laaporo, 12, along with their 11-year- old cousin Kojobele, slip away from the house around 6 each morning with slingshots in hand and roughly stitched sacks slung around their necks. The sacks are to carry the shea fruits they pluck o­ the ground and snack on to keep their bellies full. The slingshots are meant for birds or lizards that might be roasted for dinner. The boys return home around 11 a.m. for a quick lunch of tuo zaafi , or TZ, a soft, cooked dough made of unsalted millet and maize Mwinlier Kuutapoma has to dig down fl ours. They will have the same into a streambed to access water meal for dinner, augmented with a during the dry season. green soup made from wild leaves and possibly a roasted bird if they and wait for the hole she’s made to fi ll attributes her good looks and good managed to shoot one that day. up before she can scoop out enough health to a husband who pitches in While the boys are out herding, cloudy gray water to make the trip around the house. “He takes good family members left at home are worthwhile. care of me,” she said. The a­ ection working, too. Daughter Gifty, 16, treks Like mothers the world over, between them is genuine. Men in to the dry streambed 100 yards from Mwinlier Kuutapoma shoos children the community traditionally give the house multiple times a day. Water out of her way as she ticks o­ her cows to the families of their wives is scarce as the dry season drags on, daily tasks. Slender and elegant, with as a dowry, and six cows is the usual and Gifty has to dig down into the dangling earrings and hair wrapped gift. But Mwinlier liked her husband- ground with a broken calabash shell on top of her head, Kuutapoma to-be so much that she convinced

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 33 7/9/18 1:58 PM her family the two cows he could from goat sales bought enough grain o­er was plenty. And Lafaar never to keep the Kuutapoma family fed. took another wife. Some of the benefits from the The family’s workload increased Heifer trainings were less tangible. now that the family is part of a Heifer Workshops on gender equity project. Keeping livestock is not chipped away at a rigid tradition that new for them, but Heifer training relegates women to secondary roles. encourages far more hands-on “It was thought that only men were care than they were used to. Before intelligent. It was never done before they could take ownership of the that women were leaders.” But now, new goats, the family had to build women are stepping up. an enclosure that would keep them secure at night. This was a big Hope Dries Up change in a community where goats “I feel sad that I don’t have enough were usually left to wander free and food and water,” mother of seven fend for themselves. “I never knew of Chibemena Dobaar said, speaking animals to have houses before,” she through a translator. “I don’t know said. “I never knew that you needed why God made me a Ghanaian. I to provide them with water.” But don’t know why God made me these new high-maintenance goats African.” The afternoon temperature are worth the e­orts invested. None has climbed to 102, pushing Dobaar have died or gone missing, and she’s into a narrow sliver of shade in the already been able to sell two of them. dirt courtyard of the mud-and-stick Money from the goat sales paid compound that also houses her for food, which Mwinlier Kuutapoma husband, her sister wife and their The sale of a goat stores in her new garage-sized combined 15 children. helped the family buy enough grain to granary that she learned to build in The dry season is winding last them through a Heifer training. The flat-roofed, the hungry dry mud-walled chamber keeps harvests season. of sorghum, rice and other grains dry and pest-free. The opening where the grains are poured in is on top, accessible by climbing up a roughly notched tree trunk to get on the roof. Granaries in Sidontenge would normally be empty by the end of the dry season, when food stores run out and families go hungry until the rains start falling and they can plant again. But this year, money

“It was thought that only men were intelligent. It was never done before that Laafar and women were leaders.” Mwinlier Kuutapoma are –Mwinlier Kuutapoma Sidontenge’s power couple.

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 34 7/9/18 1:58 PM down, with sporadic evening storms sweeping through. But the chalky streambed where Dobaar takes her buckets each day is barely viable, giving up only minimal amounts of cloudy gray water. Temperatures regularly climb past the 100 degree mark, making the water shortage even more acute. “It has never been easy to live here in the dry season,” Dobaar said. Tapeworms and diarrhea contracted from contaminated water plague the young people of the village. Last year, two children from Sidontenge started complaining of stomach pains and diarrhea and died before they got to the hospital. Animals also routinely fall sick from the dirty water. Dobaar worries about Chibemena Dobaar hauls the murky water but has literally no water in her courtyard. alternative. So she does the best she

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 35 7/9/18 1:58 PM Chibemena Dobaar (middle, in purple dress) sits in the shade with family.

can to keep her children healthy by having them sleep in the open air of the courtyard during the dry season and under mosquito nets when the rainy season begins and malaria spreads. Harvesting shea nuts and making charcoal, the activities she and her neighbors look to for money when food stores run low, still aren’t lucrative enough to keep bowls fi lled as the dry, hungry season stretches on and on. The fi ve goats passed on to Dobaar from Heifer With few jobs available, many women project participants in a neighboring make charcoal to sell to buy food. community saved her from begging this year, as she did in years past when food ran out. “I was ashamed them through a harvest. members pool their money. But when I had to do it but sometimes “The only help I need now is with just as the rain will eventually fall we needed food. I did this for years, water,” she said. Digging a borehole so crops can grow, Dobaar hopes begging around the community. in Sidontenge would likely cost careful tending of her herd will end There are so many children to feed,” 8,000 Ghanaian cedi or more. That’s of years of scarcity. “My prayer is that she said. This year she sold two goats about $2,000 U.S., an unfathomable my animals will multiply so I have and bought enough grain to last amount, even if all community more to sell,” she said. ■

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COTE TOGO Glance D’IVOIRE There’s no doubt daily life can be challenging in Ghana, with more than half of all households in the country’s GHANA Northern Region living in poverty. But the country also boasts some pretty great stu€: wild elephants, kente cloth, chocolate farms and gorgeous beaches. Accra And because English is the country’s oŽcial language,

getting around is easy for American travelers. Here’s GULF OF GUINEA hoping Ghana’s upward economic trajectory continues.

Ghana’s current flag was adopted in 1957, the year Ghana gained independence from Britain. The red represents blood spilled in the fight for independence, the gold represents mineral wealth and green symbolizes the country’s rich forests. The black star is a symbol of African emancipation.

The currency unit in Ghana Ghanaian women e€ortlessly is called a “cedi,” a word mix the boldest prints and that means “cowry shell.” colors, with invariably That’s because cowry shells stylish results. The secret, from sea snails were once they say, is just to wear used as money in Ghana. everything with confidence.

Spotting elephants is almost guaranteed for visitors to Mole National Park, Ghana’s largest wildlife refuge. The park is also home to lions, hyenas, warthogs and leopards.

Ghana was once known Ever wanted to eat soup with as the Gold Coast because your hands? That’s the standard of its rich stores of gold. method in Ghana. Just break o€ In 2007 a black gold a piece of banku, a fermented rush was on after oil was corn and cassava mash, and use discovered o€ the coast. it as a spoon/sponge hybrid.

18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 37 7/9/18 1:58 PM Shea-ving o€ the Years So many women in Ghana look decades younger than they really are, and some of the credit goes to shea butter. Processing the kernels found inside the edible fruit of shea trees is a go-to money maker in Ghana’s barebones Northern Region, where other paying work is hard to find.

Shea fruits grow on trees and fall to the ground when they’re ripe, although they often get a nudge when boys climb the trees and shake the limbs. The fruit inside is edible, and it’s a common snack and breakfast food.

18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 38 7/9/18 1:58 PM The large shea nuts are boiled clean, then left out to dry in the sun for days.

Once dry, the shea kernels are broken into small pieces and roasted. They then go to a mill to be ground into a paste. The paste is then boiled, bringing the fat to the top where it can be skimmed, leaving any residue behind in the pot. Once it cools, the shea butter is ready.

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n the evening, read. The basic routine of learning. This is one stories are those of real after the electric goes like this: three or of the key moments in people, people who toothbrushes have four picture books and which we expand our we want to hold up Ibuzzed across then a chapter book. daughters’ imaginations as ideals in this world their baby teeth and Under the glow of while teaching them that is both broken and nightgowns with just lamp light, we enjoy a about this world that is beautiful. Long before the right princesses have time of togetherness, vast and varied, small we met, my wife and been selected, my girls but it is also, in the guise and connected. I had both studied the settle into bed, ready to of good stories, a time Among our favorite work of the late Wangari

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18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 40 7/9/18 1:58 PM determination she o‚ers. While other books o‚er an almost magical story of a gifted organizer who sees the evils of deforestation and has the brilliance to enlist women in planting trees, Nivola shows that Wangari’s e‚orts often met failure, such as an early attempt at growing trees that resulted in provide wonderful nothing more than dead stories from around the twigs. Maathai shows world that invite further grit in the face of such conversation. This is not failures—a lesson we want a picture book, but it is a our daughters to learn, too. perfect read-aloud book In helping our that will result in calls to Maathai and the Green a‚ord was not as good daughters understand the “read another story!” Belt Movement. Maathai, for them as what they complexities of the world, Wisdom is also often who organized women to had grown themselves, we also want them to get shared with children replant deforested lands so that children, even a sense of the wisdom through sayings, and in her native Kenya, is the grownups, were weaker various cultures o‚er. Canadian children’s sort of role model we are and often sickly.” Folktales seem to be a book author Eric Walters interested in o‚ering our It is diˆcult to teach good way for children collects such sayings daughters. Thankfully, children about the to connect to di‚erent in From the Heart of there are a number of complexities of colonial cultures. There are a Africa: A Book of Wisdom wonderful children’s books economies (the book wide variety of folktale (Tundra: 2018). Beautifully written on Maathai’s work. points out that much collections, but one we illustrated, each page Among our favorites of the land was being like is Margaret Read includes a conversation is Planting the Trees used for export tea MacDonald’s Earth Care: starter with the saying of Kenya: The Story of plantations) or the dangers World Folktales to Talk in large letters and its Wangari Maathai by Claire of deforestation, but About. These ecologically culture of origin and Nivola. While many books Nivola o‚ers a story that focused folktales meaning below. Some are show the heroic work of includes the necessary familiar, such as, “It takes Maathai replanting trees, touch points to begin a village to raise a child,” this book gives a hint at the conversation. Our but others have a more underlying economic 6-year-old daughter seems poetic feel that require problems that caused more than able to grasp some thought to decipher. massive deforestation in the fundamentals and One example is, “I pointed the first place: “Wangari also became excited as out to you the stars, but all noticed that the people Maathai and the women you saw was the tip of my no longer grew what of the movement begin to finger.” My daughters are they ate but bought food bring healing to the land. deeply interested in these from stores. The store What is also helpful in sorts of sayings and are food was expensive, Nivola’s telling of the story constantly asking about and the little they could of Maathai is the grit and their meaning. This is a

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Nothing is made of the poverty behind the story, but it can be a good reminder to children in a¡ uent America that a television is not a given in many parts of the world. READ In another story, Akissi gets a stomachache from scavenging TO rotten vegetables in the market. The result is that she has to take FEED medicine for worms. When she Gwen Heinke, 9, is a student at West then catches one that emerges Elementary School in Plymouth, from her body, she chases her Massachusetts. She’s not afraid of brother with it to torment him. witches or tackling thick chapter books. This mix of the strange and familiar, with the everyday What is a book you enjoy reading? Why book that invites the curiosity realities of comparative poverty, do you like it? of children and o‚ ers a bu‚ et are particularly helpful for I enjoy reading the book, The Witch’s of wisdom from the continent teaching our daughters about Boy by Kelly Barnhill. I like the setting where humanity began. the world beyond our family and the events that happen in the book. Wisdom has its place, but and our way of life. By reading foolishness can sometimes be a about Akissi, they are able to see What did you like most about better teacher. That is the case parts of life that are common participating in Read to Feed? with the cartoon-like stories to all humanity, despite our I like that it showed you that you could of Ivorian graphic novelist di‚ erences. They are also read books for a good cause. Marguerite Abouet, Akissi: able to see the problems so Tales of Mischief. Akissi is of a many face that are simply not What did you learn about how Heifer similar character as Dennis the a concern to those who live helps the families in their projects? We’re not kidding … Menace or Ramona Quimby, in the industrialized West. As I learned they help families by giving but instead of suburban Akissi faces intestinal parasites, them animals. It also helps people America, Akissi lives on the hair lice and dental problems, continue to move forward in life so they we’ve got you covered urban streets of Ivory Coast. my daughters get some sense can make money and then buy their Her antics and adventures of how so many others in own stu . ® are relatable to any child the world live. But key is that Read to Feed has everything you need to get your school year o to a (my 6-year-old loved these Akissi is a fun, bright child great start! Our program teaches the fundamentals of caring for others How does it feel to know that you stories more than any of the who invites no pity. She is, as helped change the world? while fostering a love of reading. books mentioned here), but they can see, a funny girl with I like it, it makes me feel nice inside. the context is often a far cry whom they would gladly be Read to Feed is our unique reading incentive program that raises funds from the experience of most friends if they had the chance. What would you tell other kids about to provide livestock and training to struggling farming families. Students children in the United States. In time, I hope to give my why they should support Heifer or get In one story, a young boy girls a deeper understanding recruit sponsors based on the number of books or period of time spent involved with Read to Feed? charges money for other kids of the challenges that face this reading. Then, students read as many books as possible! It’s a win-win. It feels great to know you’re doing to sit in front of his neighbor’s world. For now, though, I want something good to help others. television to watch a superhero to kindle their a‚ ections so that Visit ReadtoFeed.org today to order your FREE resources show. When the neighbor is they will be ready to love those and standards-based lesson plans. seen coming down the street, they encounter, near or far—a LEARN MORE AT READTOFEED.ORG they all scramble to hide. care cultivated through stories. ■ [email protected] | ReadtoFeed.org | #ReadtoFeed

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The Sweetest Way to Support Farmers in Ecuador By Austin Bailey, World Ark managing editor

Candy doyenne Dylan Lauren learns about harvesting cacao fruit from farmer Eduardo Almeida Cevallos. PHOTOS PHILLIP BY DAVIS

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