We are agricultural producers with extensive experience cultivating and harvesting vegetables. Together with our families we work and take care of the land every day to create abundance, produce healthy food and share it with everyone.
We are alive thanks to the earth. Agriculture is one of the oldest trades of humanity. From ancient times, the Guatemalan Maya farming families and communities have worked the land to grow and harvest a wide variety of foods. Agriculture represents a cultural legacy that is transmitted generation after generation and that today keeps alive a diversified agricultural system.
“Earth is life, it provides us with food. Without mother earth, we cannot exist because she gives us life, water, air, she gives us all. We cultivate the earth and take care of it. That’s why we thank her everyday because without her, we could not live nor work. We exist thanks to earth, for her we are alive”
Edgar, Producing farmer of CORCI
We implement strategic and participatory processes for agricultural development and innovation focusing on caring for the land. Prior to the start of the sowing period, CORCI gives different training sessions, allowing us to acquire new tools and expand our knowledge about agriculture, improving our productive capacity, and taking care of the environment.
Our organization is located within the Lake Atitlan territory and covers different rural communities along the southwestern region of Guatemala.
The agricultural community that is part of CORCI is located in the eastern basin of the Madre Vieja River, in a volcanic area of productive and fertile land.
“Without land there is no harvest,
without harvest there is no food”
Area 1: Panimatzalam, Chuti Estancia, Choquec y Tucaché.
Area 2: María del Carmen, Sucún, Caliaj, Potrerillos y Caquixajay.
Area 3: Nahuala, Santa Clara La Laguna, San Juan Cotzal, Nebaj, San Andres Itzapa, Magdalena Milpas Altas, San Miguel Ixtahuacan, y Mataquescuintla.