The new seedling nursery is coming along well. A shed for storing seeds and materials, office space, bathrooms and bedrooms have already been built.

IDESAM has raised funds to build a seedling nursery.

In November, we visited Mr. Jair. He has around 3 ha of coffee agroforestry which was planted in 2022, and he was in the process of preparing another 2 ha to be planted in 2023.

This picture shows a site being prepared for planting.

This photo shows an 8-year-old agroforestry system developed under IDESAM’s programme: not a WeForest area, but a good indication of how ours will look in time.

João Nilton Ferreira Julião was one of the first farmers to join IDESAM’s agroforestry coffee programme, before WeForest came on board.

This Andiroba (Carapa guianensis) on Marlucia and Moises' farm is pictured here after about two years of growth.

The new government with a focus on zero tolerance toward deforestation was great news for all our projects in Brazil during 2022.

This graphic says it all.

For many of the rural settlers that moved to Apuí in the 1970s, conventional coffee plantations had very low productivity - 8 bags of coffee per hectare per year.