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As a student working with JA Bajío in San Juan del Río, Querétaro, México, Diana Martínez Mancilla saw a business opportunity: healthy snacks made from locally abundant foods. She started experimenting with drying fruits—mangos, papayas, pineapples, grapes, bananas—with a solar-powered dehydrator. Soon, she earned an Instituto Nacional de Economía Social grant to build a full-scale…