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How trees lift you up when coffee prices let you down

Have you noticed the recent fall in the price of coffee? You haven’t? You probably haven’t seen it in the supermarket at least, or at the coffee place at the corner of your street. But on the other side of …

Corals reefs, the rainforest of the sea

Over a third of coral reefs – corresponding roughly to the size of England – have been irreversibly lost in the last 30 years and 60% of the remaining coral reefs are threatened to disappear within the next 30 years. …

Low-price food products are hindering the development of agroecology

For two weeks, visitors have been strolling along the walkways of the Paris annual International agricultural fair, where they were encouraged to reconnect with their peasant – yet not so old, and sometimes long forgotten- roots. Only a week after …

A place without birds is like a desert

“A place without birds is like a desert”: results of an avian biodiversity assessment in Colombia Consaca, a small municipality nestled in the Andes of southwestern Colombia, is located in one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth: the Tropical …

Working for a social business also means…

The whole team during the permaculture training session A social business is often defined by its main objective: it works to tackle a social and/or environmental problem in society, through commercial activities that must be economically sustainable. The definition also …

Awards ceremony of Arbres d’Avenir, french competition for agroforestry

Arbres d’Avenir, the first national competition for agroforestry organized by Fermes d’Avenir, AccorHotels and PUR Projet, supports farmers’ initatives to plant trees in agroforestry models on their farms. 34 project holders were granted € 200,000 with funds and support for …

Ethiopia, Sidama Agroforestry Project: certification update

Sidama Agroforestry Project ran its last review from Ecocert before validation of the project under the Reforestation and Solidarity standard*. This multi-component project with small-scale coffee farmers allowed more than 225,000 trees to be planted between 2015 and 2016.

Honduras, Aprosacao Reforestation Project : certification update

Aprosacao Reforestation Project ran its last review from Gold Standard* before Initial Certification. This community reforestation and agroforestry project with small-scale cocoa farmers allowed 200,000 trees to be planted between 2012 and 2015.

A Papuan Adventure – In the footsteps of Alfred Russel Wallace with Fondation Iris

Emilia d’Avack, part of our project development team and marine expert, had the immense chance to participate last month in the ‘Science and Images’ expedition to Western Papua organised by the Fondation Iris. The Fondation Iris, spearheaded by Françoise Brenckman …