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Article: MEXICO: WOMEN-RUN FOOD CO-OP GOES MULTI-NATIONAL
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- November 9, 2009
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Emilio Godoy
Inter Press Service English News Wire
11-09-2009
AYOQUEZCO, Mexico, Nov. 7, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Years ago, when
Catalina Snchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve
her family's living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an
edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that
her idea would spawn three businesses.
Let alone the fact that she would become part of a project that
would revitalise her community, forge links with migrants in the
north, and be short-listed for a social innovation contest,
competing against initiatives from all over Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Ayoquezco de Aldama is a town of 5,200 people in the southern
state of Oaxaca, ...