Project educates farmers to restore Rainforest in Brazil with sustainable forest farming. They learn to preserve and recover the environment, water and wildlife, resulting in enhanced rural earnings.
Farms in the Rainforest were opened with non-sustainable production methods that led to severe soil, water and landscape degradation, causing rural poverty and migration to cities. This project promotes knowledge and training on environmental conservation and sustainable development forest farming, for rural economic rehabilitation, trying to keep these environment-minded farmers living on their families land and practicing Agro-Ecological techniques in their farms and communities.
The project teaches and trains farmers in Agroforestry technology and vegetable garden production, showing ways to obtain improved sustenance and more lasting and profitable agricultural results, always respecting the environment.
Two targets: 1-More than 6000 farmers and smallholders in local and neighboring counties to whom we demonstrate new agroforestry techniques. 2- Local students and communities members that we invite to our Wildlife Sanctuary to know the Rainforest.
As climate, hunger and poverty situation is getting worse every year, I am sure that what I am proposing today as an innovative idea and experience will soon be of compulsory usage in many countries.
- Roberto Lamego, Director of this project
Total Funding Received to Date: $28,320
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $31,679
Total Funding Goal: $60,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Valença, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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