Huehuetenango – The Italian Ambassador to Guatemala, Edoardo Pucci, has recently visited the Huehuetenango region to visit the activities of small coffee cooperatives who have benefited since 2006 from the Italian Cooperation’s funding. During his visit the Ambassador was accompanied by the Director of the Regional Office of AICS in San Salvador, Marco Falcone, and Massimo Battaglia, an official of Iao and head of the regional project “Café y Caffè”, which supports small family farms who produce coffee, to improve the already high quality of their product and promoting the enhancement of women’s role in this important traditional Guatemalan agriculture. The mission also provided an opportunity to inaugurate a coffee shop and a clinic for women in Tuiboch financed with funds from the mentioned project, considered a “best practice” of the Italian Cooperation, awarded by the Feeding Knowledge Expo 2015 competition. (9Colonne)
