PLANT YOUR FUTURE
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Mission Statement
Fight Poverty | Restore and Protect the Rainforest | Combat Climate Change — Helping to restore and protect the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest by empowering smallholder farmers to transition to sustainable farming.
About This Cause
Plant Your Future is a grassroots charity working in the Peruvian Amazon to reverse a trend that has to date already deforested an area the size of Scotland. We work directly with smallholder farmers, helping them to restore degraded farmland to Rainforest — but a productive one that provides a stable income. Prior to our intervention, farmers were earning just £100 per month from their smallholdings — barely enough to cover basic needs, leaving them vulnerable to crisis in the event of harvest failure or family health problems. The ‘slash and burn’ agriculture locked them into this continuing cycle of poverty whilst also systematically destroying precious rainforest habitat. We empower farmers to break the cycle themselves and ultimately our goal is to enable them to become self-sufficient within 5 years, by helping navigate the challenges preventing them from returning to sustainable farming. We’re doing this by introducing an ‘agroforestry system’ into their land: a combination of growing both long-term (trees) and short-term (crops) produce. We use your donations to meet the upfront costs of planting and maintenance, and provide ongoing technical support to ensure that the trees and crops planted continue thrive. For example, training includes how to manage pests and diseases, and effectively prune and graft trees. Our support also means farmers can access formal markets to achieve fairer prices through the sale of high quality fruits. Until recently, each farmer has worked individually, selling at market or to intermediaries. This means they waste time taking produce to town and have low bargaining power with buyers — especially as they are selling such small amounts. We provided the funding and logistical support to farmers in Loreto, assisting them to establish one of the few cooperatives in the region. Named by the farmers themselves, the “New Dawn Farmers Cooperative” means that contracts can be set up and larger amounts supplied to buyers. Prices are therefore higher and more reliable in a known market where less time wasted.