On Friday, our Deputy Director Marcelo Delajara presented at an UN Global Compact Mexico event, held at the United Nations headquarters in Mexico City. Marcelo was asked to be a keynote speaker during the closing ceremony, it was the perfect opportunity to discuss one of the most critical challenges of our time: ensuring a living wage for workers in Mexico and beyond. Marcelo has written a blog on the presentation.

At the Anker Research Institute, we are proud to announce the publication of a living income report (with a living wage in the annexe) for rural areas and small towns of Chiapas, Mexico, with a focus on coffee-growing areas. This study was a very long gestation project, which required three years of planning, extensive stakeholder engagement, fieldwork in some of the most important coffee-producing areas of the country, and finally, the estimation of living income and the preparation for publication of this report.