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Articles by Monica McCarthy

In 2012, Monica McCarthy spent six months living in Estelí, Nicaragua, working on the rural women’s empowerment, agricultural market development, and ESL projects of feminist non-profit La Fundación Entre Mujeres. She currently works as a paralegal for the Chicago-based National Immigrant Justice Center.

Nicaraguan Coffee a la Feminista

August 14, 2014 by Monica McCarthy

Green coffee beans (top left), Nicaraguan red beans (top right), corn (bottom left) and millet, vital Nicaraguan crops, held in women farmers’ hands

Coffee is the most traded good in the world behind oil, due to the fact that most coffee is grown in developing countries but consumed in developed countries1. Although coffee is part of many people’s ‘daily grind,’ most do not realize that before reaching their mug or their church coffeepot their coffee has been grown, […]

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Green coffee beans (top left), Nicaraguan red beans (top right), corn (bottom left) and millet, vital Nicaraguan crops, held in women farmers’ hands

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