The new group of 31 smallholder farmers who will be participating in the project is now fully set up. Like the first cohort of 24 farmers recruited in 2022, they’ll establish agroforestry systems to grow a popular cash crop, yerba mate, and restore their farmland into forest patches. During the first six months of this year, the project team visited their farms in order to be able to plan the supplies they’d need and start preparing the ground for the agroforestry plots. Two training sessions were also provided, one on yerba mate management and harvesting, and the other on soil preparation (above).