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Marcela Pino

Marcela Pino

Co-founder and Executive Director of Food 4 Farmers, a Vermont-based nonprofit supporting food security for smallholder coffee-farming families in Latin America.

Sep 17, 2026

LukeHOST
36:13
But no, what is the hope that you see and that folks on the ground are seeing?
36:20
You know, after 15 years, thank goodness we now have seen such a positive result.
36:27
So one thing that we haven't talked about is that in many of the programs that we work with, what we encourage the co-op to do, we partner with coffee co-ops and with local NGOs.
36:41
We do both.
36:42
With the coffee co-ops, we encourage them to create a network of community promoters.
36:49
These are people that are young and that are kind of budding leaders in their community that can be in the community and can be the bridge of knowledge and learning between us and the co-op and the families.
37:07
Right.
LukeHOST
39:53
That's it.

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