Healthy Kids, Healthy Forests

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1 Healthy Kids, Healthy Forests Restoring Maya Nut forests for Healthy Families in Central America Presentation for Arbor Day Foundation, 2012 By: Erika Vohman Maya Nut Institute

2 What is Maya Nut?! Brosimum alicastrum, in the fig family! The staple food for the Maya and other pre-columbian neotropical cultures! Also known as Ramon, Ojoche, Ujuxte, Ojushte, Ojite, Masica, Pisba waihka, Capomo, Mojo, Huje! Nutritious, delicious and abundant! Multipurpose: provides food, fuel, wood, fodder, medicine and environmental services The Equilibrium Fund 2005

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4 Maya Nut is more nutritious than other staple foods Maya Nut Corn Wheat Rice Zinc (mg/1000g) Iron (mg/100g) Vit. B6 (mg/1000g) The Equilibrium Fund 2005 Vit. E (mg/100g) Vit. B2 (mg/100g)

5 It is particularly high in calcium, folate and vitamin C Maya Nut Corn Wheat 150 Rice Protein (mg/1000g) Calcium Vitamin C (mg/100g) The Equilibrium Fund (mg/100g) 2005 Folate (mcg/100g)

6 A family of 5 can harvest 1000lb of seed in seven days The Equilibrium Fund 2005

7 Natural Maya Nut forests produce 4 times more income and 3 times more food per hectare than corn Maya Nut, $1060/ha Maya Nut, 1000 kg/ha Corn, $250/ha Corn 350kg/ha $/ha The Equilibrium Fund 2005 kg/ha

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10 Maya Nut Program Methodology:!Workshops only require one-day!90% of workshop content is hands-on and practical!teaching materials adapted to illiterate or low-level literacy!female staff for women s workshops! Utilize resources, skills and knowledge that participants already possess!foster innovation and independence

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12 Women and Girls workshops:!topics: Nutrition, recipes, processing All female staff Utilize local resources, skills and knowledge Foster innovation and independence

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15 Quek chi Guatemalan women learning about Ax (Maya Nut) from TEF promoters The Equilibrium Fund 2005

16 Honduran Miskito women learning about Pisba Waihka (Maya Nut) from TEF promoters The Equilibrium Fund 2005

17 Guatemalan promoters teach new communities The Equilibrium Fund 2005

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21 It is easy for women to convert Maya Nut seed into a nutritious, delicious flour The Equilibrium Fund 2005

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23 Fresh seed can be boiled and ground into a dough for use in patties, spreads, soups, etc. The Equilibrium Fund 2005

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28 MAYA NUT PROGRAM IMPACTS SINCE 2002 The Equilibrium Fund 2005

29 We have 72 women promoters in 5 countries who travel and teach about Maya Nut The Equilibrium Fund 2005

30 500, ,000 NUMBER OF MAYA NUT TREES PLANTED ! 500,000 Maya Nut trees have El Salvador, been 10,000 planted since 2001 Honduras, 38, , , ,000 Mexico, 70,000 Nicaragua, 50, , , ,000 Guatemala, 300, ,000 50,000 0 The Equilibrium Fund 2005

31 Total Number of Communities educated about Maya Nut ( ) Guatemala Nicaragua Mexico Honduras El Salvador Total Total number of women educated about Maya Nut ( ) , ,330 4,011 2,278 2,775 1,020 The 0 Equilibrium Fund 2005 Guatemala Nicaragua Mexico Honduras El Salvador Total

32 11 independent women s producer groups have formed, benefitting more than 3,000 community members, mostly women The Equilibrium Fund 2005

33 TOTAL NUMBER OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES El Salvador, 7,026 Honduras, 18, Mexico, 14, Nicaragua, 25, Guatemala, 14,616 0 The Equilibrium Fund 2005

34 EDUCATING WOMEN ABOUT MAYA NUT REFORESTATION NUTRITION AND HEALTH CONSERVATION INCOME The Equilibrium Fund 2005

35 INVESTMENT IN MAYA NUT WORKSHOP EDUCATE WOMEN ABOUT MAYA NUT REFORESTATION NUTRITION AND HEALTH CONSERVATION INCOME MARKET The Equilibrium Fund 2005

36 MARKET REFORESTATION NUTRITION AND HEALTH RAINFOREST CONSERVATION INCOME The Equilibrium Fund 2005

37 The Export Paradigm is a trap! Coffee! Chocolate! Bananas! Sugar! Rubber! Maya Nut? The Equilibrium Fund 2005

38 MALNUTRITION RAINFOREST DEGRADATION POVERTY EXPORT CROP ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE, FOOD AID FOOD INSECURITY PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCONNECT The Equilibrium Fund 2005

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42 HEALTH, NUTRITION RAINFOREST CONSERVATION INCOME HEALTHY KIDS, HEALTHY FORESTS Maya Nut School Lunch Program INDEPENDENCE FROM OUTSIDE FOOD AID FOOD SOVEREIGNTY REFORESTATION The Equilibrium Fund 2005

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46 HEALTHY KIDS, HEALTHY FORESTS GUATEMALA PILOT PROGRAM! 22 schools participating! 2700 kids fed! 150,000 trees planted! $25,000 to women s producer group! 428 women and children taught about Maya Nut! Collaboration between Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture and various NGO s The Equilibrium Fund 2005

47 WE HAVE THE CUTEST RESULTS IN CENTRAL AMERICA! The Equilibrium Fund 2005

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49 The Problem: Acute Malnutrition affects 49% of rural Central American children

50 Malnourished children perform poorly in school, get sick more often and cannot achieve their full potential as adults

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53 WHAT IS MAYA NUT?! Brosimum alicastrum, in the fig family! The staple food for pre- Columbian cultures! Also known as Ramon, Ojoche, Ojushte, Ojite, Masic, Capomo, Mojo, Huje, Manchinga, Sande, Breadnut! Nutritious, delicious and abundant! An important emergency food during drought, famine and war

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71 We ve taught 15,000 women and girls from 978 rural and indigenous communities about the Maya Nut The Equilibrium Fund 2005

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76 The Export Paradigm is a trap Coffee Chocolate Bananas Sugar Rubber Maya Nut?

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84 Healthy Kids, Healthy Forests costs $20 per child per year

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86 GOAL: scale up to 1,000 schools by 2014 HEALTHY KIDS, HEALTHY FORESTS PILOT PROGRAM RESULTS Guatemala 32 schools Nicaragua 25 schools El Salvador 5 schools Mexico 5 schools!approx. 9,000 kids fed!395,000 trees planted (community land)!$55,000 spent to purchase Maya Nut from rural women s enterprises

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90 THANK YOU! For more information visit Or contact

91 Go to the people live among them Love them Learn from them Start from where they are Work with them Build on what they have. But of the best leaders When the task is accomplished The work completed The people all remark: We have done it ourselves -Lao Tzu

92 MAYA NUT PROGRAM SYNERGY JOBS AND INCOME FOR WOMEN FOOD SECURITY CHILD NUTRITION AND HEALTH ECOSYSTEM SERVICES CONSERVATION AND RFORESTATION

93 The Market will be the driver MAYA NUT SCHOOL LUNCHES JOBS AND INCOME FOR WOMEN FOOD SECURITY CHILD NUTRITION AND HEALTH ECOSYSTEM SERVICES CONSERVATION AND RFORESTATION

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