The Canindeyú region is the third largest soy and meat producer in Paraguay. The economy is growing, but at the same time 75 percent of small farming families live below the poverty line with an annual income of around USD 1,500 per year. Indigenous communities earn even lower incomes. In contrast, the country has lost 85 percent of its forest area in the last 60 years, mainly to establish agricultural and livestock farms. This has led to a decline in various ecosystem services, loss of soil quality and biodiversity and a reduced quality of life for many rural communities.
With this project, we offer small farmers and indigenous people concrete, alternative sources of income such as the sustainable model of yerba mate production, preserve natural resources such as the remanents of the Atlantic rainforest of Alto Paraná and improve the quality of life of the inhabitants.
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Goals
Improving the livelihoods of 100 families in the Mbaracayú forest by strengthening and implementing sustainable production and economic diversification strategies.
5 schools are implementing the environmental measures identified in the workshops.
70 families are being trained in sustainable yerba mate cultivation, which will increase sustainable production in the region by 50 new hectares.
Development and introduction of a sustainable tourism model for Yerba Mate
Impacts
100
Families were trained in sustainable yerba mate cultivation, and 30 of them with organic and fair trade certification increased their income by 20 percent.
150 ha
forests are protected.
50
young women are trained in sustainable yerba mate production.
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Katharina Gehrig
Project Manager Development Cooperation
Tel: +49 7732 9995 84
gehrig@globalnature.org
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