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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