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Project - Amazon Agroforestry and Silvopasture |
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Amazon Agroforestry and Silvopasture
Onetreeplanted.org
 Ucayali and Loreto, Peru have been severely degraded by deforestation and is home to extremely poor community members (typically farmers) who earn about USD$108 per month from their smallholdings. This is barely enough to cover basic needs, leaving them vulnerable to crisis in the case of harvest failure or health problems. In addition, the Western Arc of the Amazon Rainforest in the Loreto and Ucayali regions of north-eastern Peru is one of Earth's most biodiverse places and critically important for conservation. It is a region with high levels of endemism and endangered species, such as the White Bellied Spider Monkey, the Black Faced Spider Monkey, Iquitos Gnatcatcher, and the Giant Brazilian Otter.
 The Amazon Agroforestry and Silvopasture project, under the aegis of One Tree Planted, is planting 110,547 trees to restore 100 hectares of degraded land and empower small landholders to plant native Amazonian timber and fruit trees on their lands. Through workshops and field schools, the project equips these communities with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to make reforestation through agroforestry financially viable and technically achievable. This agroforestry approach restores the rainforest and generates food and financial security, thereby critically reducing deforestation pressure.
 The project is centered on diversifying family incomes through sale of produce in the short to medium term, timber in the medium to long-term, which is then complimented by payments for ecosystem services, namely carbon offsets. Adapting to the individual needs, wants, and ecological specificities of our partner's smallholdings is what allows the project to be sustainable in the long term. Planting trees in this location will also restore habitat for threatened native fauna species.
This grant will be used to plant approximately 2,578 trees and restore the land in these areas.
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