María Guadalupe Galindo Cruz
Farmer from Cuautempan, Puebla, Mexico
María Guadalupe Galindo Cruz is originally from the community of San Pedro Hueytentan, Cuautempan, Puebla, Mexico. She belongs to the Nahuatl ethnic group and speaks the language. She has been a corn producer since she was a child and is currently 70 years old. In 2013 a CIMMYT technician invited her to collaborate with her plot to be part of the field training of the Conservation Agriculture (CA) certification course taught by CIMMYT and supported by SAGARPA (Now SADER).
She participated in the World Food Day organized by FAO 2014 that was held in the city of Tepatitlán, Jalisco, where she shared her experience as it happened to change her from a corn producer in conventional agriculture to conservation agriculture.
She is currently an active promoter of CA in the State of Puebla, in the Cuautempan Research Platform established in the community of Hueytentan in the municipality of Cuautempan in the Sierra Norte Region of the State of Puebla since 2014, where she talks about her experience and invites more women to participate in the workshops that take place in the research plot.