Solidarity Economy in Latin America/Via Organica

Location: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Details of the Work

Goals or Focus:

Vía Orgánica is an organization looking to teach farmers, consumers and visitors about healthy nutrition, while taking care of the environment and providing an important economic ecosystem in Mexico. Their mission is to form networks of farmers that still own their own land and to teach them how to take care of in order to produce high quality products with it. They also want to educate the community so that even the unhealthiest piece of land has a chance to recover through good practices, just as our own unhealthy practices or eating habits can be transformed to reach a wholesome lifestyle.

Values:

Sustainable Farming, Food Education, Generational Wealth

General Category:

Education, Sustainability, and Food Security

Time Frame:

Via Orgánica was created in 2009 and came out from the "Organic Consumers Association", a national network of consumers of organic products in the United States, which promotes health, justice, sustainability, peace and democracy.