Word: bribri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major reasons Bryant's plantation is not a fast-eroding cow pasture is that he got help from an environmental group called Anai (which means "friend" in the language of the local Bribri Indians). "We probably wouldn't still be farming if it wasn't for these guys," admits Bryant. Anai provided him with new kinds of crops, including vanilla plants and a different variety of cacao tree, which is less likely to die from fungus. Over the past five years, Anai has brought dozens of new varieties of cash crops to more than 20 communities in the Talamanca region...
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