Mexico, spearhead in policies in favor of sustainable coffee growing

2000Agro/Writing Mexico is spearhead, since it is part of a group of countries that carries out actions pilot on sustainable coffee growing and well-being of producers on a small scale and that, if successful, will be replicated on a global scale, stated the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Victor Villalobos Arámbula. By participating at the start of the session of the Public-Private Working Group Workshop of the coffee sector in Mexico, the federal official stressed that coffee has great social, environmental and economic relevance for our country and has transited, over time, by different public policies. However, said, it is until the present administration that it was resumed in the National Plan of Development 2019–2024 as a priority crop for territorial development in rural areas, especially native peoples. Also I know highlighted its importance for the preservation of our biodiversity contained in the coffee-growing regions, with incidence ...