Five stages, each one the condition for the next. Nothing here is aspirational framing — it is the sequence the work actually follows in the field.
Partnership comes first. Village outreach in Toledo runs through the Alcalde system; without it there is no route into a community.
Training materials exist in audio so that literacy is never the barrier to learning the work.
Many of the women Komonil works with are severely isolated. Custom restricts speaking with men outside the family; feuds and gossip restrict speaking with women outside it. Komonil has lost team members who would not work alongside someone else.
Getting a group to function as a group took two years. Every economic result on this page depends on it, which is why it is named here rather than treated as a pleasant side-effect.
Income that does not require leaving the village, in a district where that is the usual alternative.
Women with standing in decisions that were made without them.
A living practice with people under forty in it — not an archive.
On working farms, which is where most of the range of these bees actually is.
