Amazon Interactive
Coffee and Conservation
You choseto maintain your current fields:
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Map of your 15 hectare plot of land
You earned only $220--due to dropping coffee prices and low yields. That'snot enough for your family to live on. You have to borrow money from your brother, promising topay him back after next year's harvest.
You've still got six hectares of primary forest left, but you're beginningto realize that you'll soon run out of it. In a few years, you'll have toplant all your crops in secondary forest--or find another line of work besidesfarming. Some people in your Quichua community are talking about ecotourism.Instead of farming more land, the community can earn money by bringingin tourists and teaching them about the Quichua way of life. Do you thinkthe community should consider ecotourism?Or would you like to start over with your cash crops?
