Food 4 Farmers

Marcela Pino, Co-Director Marcela is responsible for design, development, and management of Food 4 Farmers’ programs and programmatic partnerships. Marcela began her work with coffee producers in 2003 at Grounds for Health, whose mission is to bring cervical cancer screening and treatment to women in coffee-growing communities. Her role there ranged from managing all aspects of project implementation, to site selection, project design, logistic and strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, development, communications, Board development, and donor outreach and engagement. Marcela developed a profound personal and professional interest in identifying effective, sustainable, and partner-based solutions to overcoming some of the most pernicious obstacles for coffee producers, to help them achieve a better, life-long quality of life. In 2009 she joined the Rural Livelihoods and Agroecology Group at the University of Vermont in its Masters program in Natural Resources. Her research centers on the effects of income diversification of coffee producers on food security. She is also collaborating on an ongoing revision of monitoring and evaluation techniques to implement effective programs in coffee-producing communities. In 2010, Marcela co-founded Food 4 Farmers with Janice Nadworny and Rick Peyser, to help coffee producers realize a better quality of life for their families and communities through community-appropriate and lasting food security. Contact Marcela at marcela@food4farmers.org.