Picking coffee beans
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Practical Action Peru
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30/01/2015
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en
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Agriculture , Food
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Developing small-scale coffee farming without damaging the Amazon forest, gaining access to different high-value markets and obtaining higher prices than in conventional markets. The project intends to take advantage of the farms in the so-called "cloud forests", the most bio-diverse ecosystem on the planet, and also one of the most fragile. The richness of this mountain environment has an influence on the organoleptic characteristics of the coffee production (taste, texture, smell and colour); therefore it has the potential to be considered amongst the best in the world market. The project will develop the farmers' capacity to produce high quality coffee and establish links with different high value markets, in order to increase their income in a sustainable manner. The project will create a new paradigm: farmers will be encouraged to consider the forest as their most valuable resource, the source of their productivity, quality and lower costs. The project area is situated in the Alonso de Alvarado district of the Lamas province in the department of San Martin and will work directly with 600 coffee farmers (250 of them are members of the Oro Verde cooperative), and indirectly with a further 1,200 farmers. By the end of the project more than 1,800 coffee farmers will have been involved, most of whom are migrants from Andean highland regions, whose only source of income is coffee.
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