Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

Photographer Matt Black visited Mishtek in July 2011. The photos taken there are part of an ongoing long-term photo project telling about the region and its people. This time Black focused his attention on agriculture and its problems associated with severe soil erosion.

Here's what he writes:

1. Collapsed rocks are pouring towards the village.

2. Houses are gradually falling through.

3. Locals carry things from destroyed houses in the village.

4. Cleaning in a cornfield affected by a landslide.

5. People carry the surviving wheat crop from a field damaged by a landslide.

6. A boy on the ruins of his house.

7. Temporary shelter for the family.

8. A boy in his family's house.

9. Local family.

10. People are resting near their car next to the road.

11. Collecting materials from a destroyed house.

12. The boy goes home on the crumbling slope.

13. Shepherd dog on a hill near the city.

14. Fragments of rocks on an eroded field.

15. A woman inspects her damaged cornfield.

16. Harvesting wheat in a cracked field.