Since 1996, Dr. Hutson has been doing archaeology in the Maya area, working briefly in Belize and Guatemala before settling down in Yucatan, Mexico, in 1998.  Dr. Hutson will speak about his current research.

Mexican social scientist, Josefina Aranda Beauzry (from ISS-UABJO), will teach a one credit course on gender, development, and food in Latin America at UK in F15.  She joins us from Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas-Universidad Autonoma "Benito Juarez" de Oaxaca, Mexico, and will give a public lecture in conjunction with her visit. 

Women farmers are less likely to own land and have limited access to credit, extension services, producer organizations and market information.  In this talk, Sarah Lyon explores current innovations in the speciality, high-quality, coffee market aimed at supporting women farmers, including new financial products and training programs, micro-batching of women's coffee, identifying and supporting "hidden influences" and developing gender "scorecards."  She will discuss the impact of some of these innovations in Oaxaca, Mexico, where 42 % of registered organic coffee farmers are now women.