The project, started up in 2014, aims to reduce the impact of growing deforestation and of soil erosion in last few years due to the implementation of agricultural techniques which aren’t eco-friendly at all.  

This project is rising from the understanding that awareness alone is not enough to safeguard forestry reserve, but it is necessary also to offer to local population also interesting alternatives. Coffee and tea are plants which find in forestry ambience the perfect conditions to grow, and investment in those crops it’s the key to protect the forest and, at the same time, to grant a good income to farmers in the area. 

For this reason we decided to start agricultural trainings to promote those crops, good agricultural practice and techniques to prevent soil erosion, sustainable farming.  Land tenure is also an important topic for our training, in order to fight land grabbing and make farmers the legal owners of their lands.

Meanwhile the project foresees also the management of nurseries for the distribution of plants for reforestation of specific areas, previously deforested for the cultivation and then abandoned, and also the formation of “Forestry preservation” groups in villages.