Mexico sits at a particular crossroads. It has one of the richest agricultural traditions on the planet: milpa systems, polycultures, campesino knowledge that runs centuries deep, and at the same time, decades of policy that pushed agrochemical dependency so far into smallholder farming that it stopped feeling like a choice. Herbicides, synthetic fertilisers, monoculture.

Homero Blas Bustamante has spent his career making them visible again.

He is an agronomist and a farmer. He works his own land in Cafetitlán, Oaxaca, as a real testing ground where he tries things, watches what happens, and adjusts. He doesn’t ask farmers to take risks he hasn’t taken himself. That matters more than most credentials.