Guatemala, January 2012. More than 18,000 people climbed the Agua Volcano to participate in the Subida por la Vida initiative (Climb for Life) to raise awareness against violence in Guatemala. The activity was ..
Guatemala, January 2012. Throughout 2011 Agroamerica collected used ink cartridges from all its farms and administrative offices, and donated them to the "Hasta el último cartucho" (Until the last cartridge) pr..
Guatemala, December 2011. Agroamerica organized the workshop "Handling of Containers" with the shipping companies APL, Maersk and Seaboard Marine in Escuintla for 22 employees. The main objective of these train..
Guatemala, December 2011. The Canadian Ambassador, Hugues Rousseau, along with Principal Commercial Aggregate Natalie Samson and Charge d'Affairs Christine Luttmann, visited one of Agroamerica´s farms in Escuin..
Guatemala, December 2011. Agroamerica now has its own Academy for Professional Drivers, ADECOP, which will train and give a university certificate issued by the Rafael Landivar University to all company drivers..
Guatemala, December 2011. Agroamerica organized the visit of 12 doctors from the University of Colorado to conduct a study about the health, education and lifestyle situation of the communities bordering the so..
Costa Rica, November 2011. Agroamerica joined Costa Rica's Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications, the Pineapple Exporters' National Chamber and five other companies to measure the Carbon print ..
Guatemala, November 2011. Agroamerica's Corporate Social Responsibility Department donated plastic containers to the school and health center of San Jose Mogollon, in Escuintla. The plastic containers will be u..
The first class of kinder garden students graduates from the Fernando Bolaños private school. Guatemala, November 2011. Agroamerica celebrated the graduation of 19 kinder garden students from the Fernando B..
Guatemala, November 2011. For the past two years Agroamerica has been implementing the Better Families program in 12 rural communities across the country. A self-help program, Better Families focuses on improvi..
Guatemala, October 2011. Agroamerica donated food to 800 families affected by the rains which recently struck Guatemala's southwestern region. The company delivered food items including flour, beans, sugar, oil..
Guatemala, October 2011. Contributing to education, especially of nearby communities, Agroamerica helped build ten classrooms in the Juan Pablo Hernández School in the community of Ticanlú. This project, whi..
Guatemala, October 2011. Agroamerica recently acquired a fleet of 20 new trucks with the latest technological innovations to improve efficiency and customer service. The head of Agroamerica's transportation di..
Agroamérica, through their Corporate Social Responsibility Program, Better Families, offered a free medical clinic day in two villages of Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango, Los Encuentros and Las Ventanas. The doct..
Guatemala, September 2011. In order to foster a positive attitude and encourage a sense of civic duty in its employees to vote responsibly and conscientiously, Agroamérica together with the civic association, G..
Guatemala, September 2011. Agroamérica donates each year (for 5 years) US$25,000 to the Guatemalan Agricultural Development Endowment Fund (FDDAG) which exists thanks to the generous donations made by agribusin..
Guatemala, September 2011. Agroamerica collaborated with a donation of bananas to help support the more than 10,000 runners from all over the world who participated in the Third Annual Guatemala City 21K Half M..
Guatemala, September 2011. As part of their social responsibility program, Agroamérica collaborated with local communities to help build up the riverbanks and dredge the Mico River in the town of Huitzitzil in ..
Guatemala, August 2011. The private, co-educational Fernando Bolaños School was visited by 54 directors, teachers, and students from other rural schools located in the municipalities of La Reforma and El Quetza..
Guatemala, August 2011. A group of community leaders from Escuintla were invited by Agroamérica to participate in the workshop: "Introducing CSR in Communities." This workshop was part of the annual Responsible..
Guatemala, August 2011. Agroamérica, concerned with the nutritional status and well-being of its employees, their families and the residents of the communities surrounding their farm operations, have taken on t..
Guatemala, July 2011. Agroamérica trained forty women from the community of San Francisco Madre Vieja, Escuintla, in the skills of pastry production in order to teach them a new skill that could be used to star..
Guatemala, July 2011. As part of their Social Responsibility Program, Agroamérica organized a day of fumigation in the communities of Madre Vieja, San Jose Mogollón and Huitzizil, all located in the Department ..
Guatemala, July 2011. Alejandro Maldonado, the Executive Secretary of CONRED met in Chiquirines, Ocós, San Marcos with leaders from sixteen communities from Retahuleu, Quetzaltenango and San Marcos, together ..
Guatemala, June, 2011. As part of Agroamérica's corporate responsibility program and Better Families program, a clean-up day was organized in San Jose Mogollon, Nueva Concepción, Escuintla. Many people from th..
Guatemala, June 2011. Each year, Agroamerica awards farms and workers that achieve higher productivity yields. To do that, it evaluates the fulfillment of production targets, technical and environmental standar..
Guatemala, June, 2011. Last month, the Goverment started dredging the mouth of the Pacayá River, located in San Rafael Pacayá, Quetzaltenango. The purpose is to avoid the flooding that occurs in the area during..
Guatemala, May, 2011. Agroamérica, together with the Ministry of Education, Microsoft, and the Sergio Paiz Foundation (FUNSEPA) an NGO that contributes to social and economic development projects in Guatemala, ..
Agroamerica opened the school called "Mixed Rural Private School Fernando Bolaños," in the Chiquirines village, Caballo Blanco, Rethaluleu, which is directed to the children of Agroamerica´s employees who live ..
Guatemala, April, 2011. Agroamerica, together with the local health care center in the town of San José Mogollón, offered a free medical clinic day to benefit the residents of the community. The medical ..
Guatemala, April 2011. On the 11th and 12th of April, Fernando Bolaños, Agroamerica CEO, was invited to participate in the global dialogue Road to Rio +20: Strengthening the role of the private sector in the tr..
Guatemala, February, 2011. Agroamerica was the winner of an award given annually by the Guatemalan American Chamber of Commerce, AmCham, on February 10th at the Hotel Princess Reforma. The corporation?s work a..
Guatemala's banana sector is plagued by conflict between the private sector and labor, a legacy of the country's civil war "the longest and one of the most brutal in contemporary ..
one of the most important emerging markets in Latin America, Guatemala is an attractive proposition for businesses, with a strategic location on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, a modern infrastructure, a..
Incidents of work stoppage at two AgroAmérica banana farms have dropped by 20 percent as a result of a program designed to build trust and dialogue among workers,..
Guatemala, July 2009. Agroamérica banana plantations joined together to sponsor training in family guidance given by the organization ENLACE (En La Comunidad Encuentro - In the Community I Found) in order to ac..
Guatemala, August 2009. From August 9 to the 14, was held the first training workshop for field technicians and general coordination of the Best Family- CEFI program, sponsored by Agroamérica, at the Hotel Sibo..
Guatemala (July 2009) As part of its ongoing commitment and responsibility to develop good practices, Agroamerica?s banana plantations received the international GLOBALGAP certification. GLOBALGAP is a priv..
Guatemala, June 2009. Aiming to improve the conditions of students of the village San Francisco Madre Vieja, Agroamerica repaired parts of the installations of the village?s school, Escuela Oficial Rural Mixta,..
Guatemala, June 2009. For the students of Escuela Rural Mixta of Huitzizil Village, their school day won't be the same. Since June 17, 2009, their classrooms have lighting, one of the most critical physical cha..
Guatemala, May 2009. Aiming to restore vehicular communication and benefit the local community, the bridge from Las Trozas village, which connected three villages in the area, was repaired. The bridge, which..
Guatemala, June 10, 2009. Fernando Bolaños Menéndez, the founder and president of the Corporation Agroamérica, died on Thursday, May 21, after more than 62 years of work. His leadership now is in charge of his ..