Farmers in northern Honduras are at the forefront of a significant development in hillside agriculture. For more than 20 years, they have been quietly developing an aggressive vining legume called velvetbean and adapting it to the needs of maize production. These farmers developed the velvetbean-maize practice because they were excluded from the prime coastal land of northern Honduras, increasingly taken up by pineapple and African palm plantations and pastures owned by the elite classes and agroindustries. The farmers had to find a way to produce maize — their staple food — on poor and fragile hillside land.
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