Smallholder farmers in the Peruvian Amazon are on the front lines of climate change and systemic poverty. Lacking sustainable alternatives, families use slash-and-burn farming to survive. Removing this vital tree cover leaves soils vulnerable to nutrient loss from heavy rains and crop failure from rising temperatures. The resulting drop in productivity forces farmers to clear more rainforest, intensifying a cycle that destroys local livelihoods and accelerates climate change.

We partner with rural Amazonian farming families to restore degraded farmland through agroforestry: growing native trees alongside crops on the same land. Our local team provides the training, tools and technical guidance families need to move away from slash-and-burn farming and establish productive, tree-based systems. Led by communities, this approach restores rainforest canopy and enriches depleted soils, while creating reliable long-term incomes and improving food security.