Perú – Amazonas

Agricultural practices improvement to strengthen coffee smallholders’ resilience

Context

• Poor agricultural practices due to limited knowldege on coffee farming
• Lack of infrastructure to allow a qualitative post-harvest process and lack of material to maintain the parcels
• Poor crop diversification / Limited self-sufficiency
• Low interest of the young generation for coffee farming
• Poor sanitation & hygiene infrastructures, with limited access to drinking water

Objectives

• Improve agricultural practices to reach a better coffee quality
• Improve yield through a regenerative agriculture
• Improve coffee smallholders’ income and find additional sources of revenue
• Promote gender & youth involvement in the coffee farming

Activities

• Provide capacity building through an inclusive training program
• Help coffee smallholders through a dedicated technical assistance at farm level
• Provide equipment and material required to improve the coffee quality

A few data

• Located in the Province of Amazonas
• 500 producers splitted in 80 communities
• 3-year-project
• 2 cooperatives of smallholders