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Coffee and Conservation
You chosethe moderate income strategy:
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Map of your 15 hectare plot of land
You earned $350. That's not quite enough to support your family. You have to borrow morefrom your brother, again promising to pay him back after next year's harvest.
You've still got five hectares of primary forest left, but you're beginningto realize that, at this rate, you'll soon run out of it. In a few years,you'll have to plant all your crops in secondary forest--or find anotherline of work besides farming. Some people in your Quichua community aretalking about ecotourism. Instead of farming more land, the communitycan earn money by bringing in tourists and teaching them about the Quichuaway of life. Do you think the community should considerecotourism? Or would you like to start over withyour cash crops?
