Weekly News Roundup, Sept 2, 2016
Climate change predicted to halve coffee-growing area that supports 120m people
Extreme temperatures and unusual high-altitude rains have also sparked costly waves of pests and disease through coffee farms. In ...
Colombian Anabaptist Perspectives on the Peace Accords
Wednesday, August 24 was an historic day in Colombia: the national government and FARC guerrilla group announced that they had reached an agreement after nearly four year of negotiations, effectively ending the...
Cafe Justo: Coffee and Migration
Erica VanEssendelft is the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Mexico. This post is part of our ongoing series on migration.
“It’s a business with a very, very strong social conscience. It’s the basis o...
Weekly News Roundup, Aug 26, 2016
The News Roundup is a regular feature of the blog where we select news articles from various sources around the web, with the goal of providing an overview of the weekly conversation about the countries where M...
Hospitality, Boyasence Style
Anna Vogt is the Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst. This post was originally published on her personal blog.
I have never felt so welcomed in a place as I did in Turmeque over the last MCC retreat. I ha...
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
I read Seth M. Holmes’ Fresh Fruit; Broken Bodies, on a beach. There is still sand between the pages and that feeling of grit on an otherwise smooth surface sums the book up well. It is an uncomfortable read, a...
The Privilege of Being Uncomfortable
Once a year, I spend a day travelling by jeep through the Montes de Maria.
I hate it.
I love the communities that we visit, the conversations and meetings, the spaces of reflection afterwards, the green b...
Biking for education
For Katerina Parsons, this past year has been an opportunity to experience first-hand how individuals working together can make a difference.
Parsons, a Michigan native from Bethel Church in Jackson, Mich., sp...
Weekly News Roundup, August 5, 2016
The News Roundup is a regular feature of the blog where we select news articles from various sources around the web, with the goal of providing an overview of the weekly conversation about the countries where M...
Haiti Is Courageous
The international press diffuses a single narrative of Haiti - one of political instability, malnutrition, disease and devastation. "The poorest country in the Western hemisphere" - this is how Haiti is too oft...