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We champion community-led climate action through sustainable farming and native species reforestation in the Amazon rainforest of Peru. Our expert team of Peruvian foresters work with rural communities living in poverty, enabling them to improve their livelihoods and build resilience.
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Situation
Smallholder farming with 'slash-and-burn' and cattle ranching causes 90% of deforestation within the Peruvian Amazon, destroying biodiversity and contributing to climate breakdown. It traps low-income communities in a cycle of poverty. Typically, farmers earn just £100 per month from their smallholdings - this is barley enough to cover a family's basic needs and leaves them vulnerable to crisis. Farmers lack the training and support to change their situation and build resilience.
Solution
Poor, rural farming communities need a realistic and achievable alternative that will enable them to move away from unsustainable agriculture. Our model of agroforestry offers this alternative: it's a tree-based way of farming that combines planting crops, fruit trees and native forest trees. This restores degraded farmland to forest cover, while increasing the productivity of the families' agricultural plots, enabling them to diversify and increase their incomes.