PHOTO: LAS COLINAS Farmers of the Sincuyo cooperative in El Salvador have switched to organic methods to conserve the soil and raise the quality and prices of the vegetables and grains they raise. Credit: Elizabeth Shapiro (MESc 03) PHOTO: OAXACA REFORESTATION Members of CEDICAM in Oaxaca, Mexico, have dug many miles of deep water-catchment trenches to restore hillside terraces for reforestation and farming. Credit: Elizabeth Shapiro (MESc 03) PHOTO: FIDELIA CRUZ Farmers such as Doña Fidelia Cruz dig material that accumulates under the newly-planted trees into their fields, along with manure from their livestock, to build rich, organic soil. Credit: Elizabeth Shapiro (MESc 03) PHOTO DON CLEMEN Caption: Don Clementino Esteban Rosales and Dr. Kathleen McAfee share a laugh under an arbor of vegetable vines, amidst coffee bushes grown in the shade of native trees in Tacuba, El Salvador. Credit: Avery Cohn (MESc '04) PHOTO: DON CELSO Caption: Don Celso Cob Balam is a Mayan master farmer from Yucatan, Mexico, where he grows six different varieties of maize along with beans, squash, chiles and other crops. His earliest ripening maize, known as "xmejen-nal" in Yucatec Maya, is the fruit of seeds selected and planted each year by his family for decades. Credit: John Tuxill, FES PhD Candidate.