Mexico’s president wants to develop the poorer south

The verdant slopes of the Tacaná volcano in Chiapas, a state in Mexico’s south, produce delicious coffee, but growers have long struggled to turn a profit. In the past six years that has started to change, says Fernando Gamboa, a farmer. A group of his peers formed a branded co-operative in 2016, after getting advice from a charity. Since then they have produced more coffee and of better quality. They now sell it to Toks, a national chain, which paid 112 pesos ($5.80) per kilogram this year, up from 65 in 2017. “We have money not only to invest in the land but to buy more food and maybe a pair of shoes,” he says.