information
Launched in 2018, this project has following key goals:
Install organic coffee parcels in agroforestery system, in unused area.
Reduce erosion in parcels highly exposed to landslide.
Protect up-hill areas that generate springs and torrents and strongly benefit to population for water quality and quantity.
Diversify revenues by planting corn and beans as a transitory crop.
“The coffee trees are part of the forest, where there is shadow, food and protection. A farm which doesn’t have water or forest is doomed to disappear soon.” – Don Norverto Zambrano Velasco
Location
ColombiaType
Agroforestry and reforestation
Local partner
Federación National de Cafeteros del CaucaParticipants
994 farmers, 11 technicians employedAchievements
2302048 planted treessupply chain
Coffeecertifications
Local partner
Federación National de Cafeteros del Cauca
The FNC is a non-profit democratic and federated organization founded in 1927 to promote the production and exportation of Colombian coffee. It currently represents more than 563,000 producers, most of whom are small family-owned farms. The FNC’s activities are directed towards improving the well-being of coffee grower’s families by providing assistance in sustainable and competitive practices within the industry.
Species planted
The objective is to plant around 4 820 000 coffee trees and 400 000 native forestry trees.
participants
Participants are both organic certified farmers and organic standard compliant farmers, not yet certified. The project will focus at first (2018-2019) on farmers that already implement organic practices on their farms – whether they are certified or not – to help them expand their growing surfaces in agroforestry systems and restore strategic degraded lands around them.