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Impact at origin: catalyzing sustainable agriculture with smallholder farmers

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Combination

Agriculture/fishery

Forestry

Information and communication technologies (ICT)

Call 9

Nicaragua

Time consumed

Start: 01-Mar-21 End: 30-Apr-23

Lead Nordic partner

Arvid Nordquist

Country of Lead Nordic partner

Sweden

Other Nordic partner(s)

U&We

Local partner(s)

APRODEIN

Other partner(s)

FARM-TRACE, Rainforest Alliance

NCF grant size

399,935

Total project cost

526,645

Technologies

ICT tools

Methods

Agroforestry, Reforestation, Sustainable agricultural practices, Sustainable forest management, Value chain development

Country of implementation:

Nicaragua

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Description

The Impact at Origin project is demonstrating a replicable solution for brands across the coffee sector to reduce their climate footprints by reforesting their own supply chains.

If the coffee sector adopts more forest friendly farming practices it could remove up to 148 million tons of carbon from the earth’s atmosphere. Coffee brands are committing to reforesting their supply chains offering the opportunity to mitigate...

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Objective

The goal of the project is to demonstrate how the coffee sector can become natural climate and livelihoods solution.

Climate mitigation: The project will work with 700 coffee farmers in Nicaragua, using FARM-TRACE to measure, verify and deliver 18,000tCO¬2 of emissions reductions and removals across 1,400 hectares of land.

Improved farmer incomes: Create a new mechanism through FARM-TRACE for farmers to market and sell the verified...