Growing Peace, One Coffee Farm at a Time

Jul 24, 2024 | Lauren Petersen-Green
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Mayerly’s journey into coffee began when Mercy Corps invited her to attend a meeting about the benefits of substituting coca with legal crops. Mercy Corps held community meetings and one-on-one conversations with participants to discuss risks of moving away from growing illicit crops. The aim was to inform growers who might be thinking about the complicated and expensive undertaking of exiting coca and beginning an entirely different crop, such as coffee.