COLOMBIA
PROJECT #1
COFFEE AS MEGAPHONE OF PEACE
Meta is an isolated rural department that over the years has suffered the violence of the civil war and the spread of illegal coca cultivation. It enjoys an ancient coffee-growing tradition and in the production of high-quality coffee it has found the engine for rebirth.
GEOGRAPHIC AREA
Department of Meta
Mesetas, Lejanías, San Juan de Arama, El Dorado, Cubarral and El CastilloPERIOD
BENEFICIARIES
AIM
PARTNERS
RESULTS OBTAINED
Coffee plants planted
Hectars with agroforestry systems
Shade trees planted
Of the farms are Rainforest Alliance certified
Women are coffee producers
PROJECT #2
THE CITY OF COFFEE
Medellin has seen a strong demographic expansion since the 1970s, largely caused by the armed conflict and the phenomenon of land expropriation. Thousands of peasants displaced from their land, have settled in the upper part of the Aburrá valley, along the mountain slopes bordering the urban center of Medellin. In these rural areas around the city, they began to cultivate coffee.
GEOGRAPHIC AREA
Medellin
PERIOD
BENEFICIARIES
AIM
Strengthening urban coffee production as an opportunity for the redemption and development of Medellin’s suburbs
PARTNERS
RESULTS OBTAINED
Coffee plants planted
Shade trees planted
Scholarships
Fruit plants planted
Hectars with agroforestry systems
