Mexican farmer honored for saving agriculture - Jesus Leon in San Isidro Tilantongo, Mexico wins $150,000 award for pioneering environmental activistism

On a recent morning, Jesus Leon maneuvered his pickup along a rugged dirt road toward a small pine forest in one of the most barren regions of southern Mexico.

From a distance, the patch of bright green pines and seedlings seemed like an oasis in contrast to the vast stretches of eroded terrain stained with red soil. But for 25 years, Leon and his environmental nonprofit have worked to make such oases possible, promoting soil conservation, sustainable agriculture and irrigation to improve the livelihoods of the Mixtec Highlands’ 350,000 inhabitants.

On Monday, Leon will be honored as one of this year’s seven winners of San Francisco’s Goldman Environmental Prize, a $150,000 award for pioneering environmental activists.”*

*From: http://www.sfgate.com
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