The olive-tree apocalypse. By Mary Roche11th grade, Eastchester High School, NY With lines from "The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees" by Agostino Petroni, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Step into the.
At dusk, a man pulled a jam-packed net from the Ionian Sea into a speed boat headed for Taranto, a city in Puglia, Italy.
He would make a few hundred euros off the catch if he could get it into the right hands without being spotted. His cargo was about 50kg of wiggly, slimy sea cucumbers, or as they are called in Italy, “poop of the sea.”
Arturo Casale, 65, got word of the man’s fishing expedition later that day in the form of a photograph. It was too late to catch the thief. As the founder of an environmental non-profit called
Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Community’s Quest for Peace
A member of Comunidad de Paz de San José, a “Peace Community” in Colombia, cultivating cacao.
All photos from Operazione Colomba
A community in Colombia is ditching traditional capitalist models in order to build a collective future.
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When it’s time for harvest, Germán Graciano Posso, a 38-year-old Colombian farmer, leaves his village, La Florencita, with a group of co-workers and heads into the hills where the cacao trees grow surrounded by a lush rainforest. Cacao pods the size of giant lemons hang off the trees’ branches: They come in various colors green, red, and purple but tend to turn yellow when they ripen. Posso harvests the fruits by hand, cracks them open with a machete, and collects the grape-sized seeds, which are covered in a white, squishy casing. Then he places the seeds in a wooden box where the casing undergoes a process of fermentation. Finally, Posso spr