In 2024, six small nurseries have been providing the seedlings for the project.

The new group of 31 smallholder farmers who will be participating in the project is now fully set up.

A small community nursery run by a group of farmers is producing all the yerba mate seedlings for the project; their production comes from INTA´s improved seedlings.

This drone video shows the landscape, the farms, the forest remnants and the conventional yerba mate plantations.

Finding red lichens on trees is a good indicators of air quality.

Many farmers have patches of forests on their lands like this one that have been logged in the past or degraded.

Families here have had many problems with drought. Farmers usually have springs, but they don’t always have an effective way to bring the water to their crops.

Much of 2023 has been strongly focused on building trust and confidence in the project among the participating farmers, who are now finishing planting and preparing their yerba mate agroforestry plots.

This photo shows a site being prepared to establish one of the new agroforestry systems.

This workshop on best practices in soil preparation was provided in cooperation with the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (INTA) and the Instituto Nacional de la Agricultura Familiar, Campesina e Indígena (INAFCI).