Credit: WIU/IIRA
L to R: Chris Merrett, IIRA director; John Gruidl, IIRA; and Winthrop Phippen, WIU School of Agriculture, at Agua Azul, which is located in the rural, southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The three are co-directors of "Capacity Building in Southern Mexico," a project to help small farm and business operations in Chiapas. Because of its success, the WIU project will receive an additional $300,000 in funding from USAID to expand its work over the next three years.