When Victor Pio's father was shot dead in the cloud forests of Peru's central Amazon in 2013, he inherited a community already hardened by violence and misfortune.

The loggers who had his father executed for denouncing their illegal trade were making new gains on his community's ancestral land and to make matters worse, a mysterious plant disease had begun to strangle the economic lifeblood of his village: coffee.

"There's been a lot of suffering in this community," said Pio, chief of Nuevo Amanecer Hawai, an isolated hamlet of around 80 indigenous Ashaninka families surrounded by the primary rainforest.

The 38-year-old's struggle is one shared by dozens of coffee-producing indigenous communities in Peru's fertile Central Jungle.

After decades of territorial conflict between indigenous groups and loggers and political violence, the communities are now salvaging what is left after a deadly leaf blight crippled yields, and fighting to find fair markets in an industry with a legacy of discrimination against indigenous farmers.

Read the full article about the fight for fair trade coffee workers in Peru by Neil Giardino at aljazeera.com.