PROJECT TIMELINE
Updated: October 2023
Spring 2023
Our cacao growers planted approximately 5,000 timber trees to aid the existing cacao forests. Timber trees offer shade, enhance flora diversity on cacao farms, and help mitigate the impacts of climate change. In addition to these natural benefits, planting timber trees also offers long-term economic advantages by creating additional income for the farmers.
Winter 2022
The timber trees distributed to farmer families by our Bean Team Leader Jan, in the Piura mountain range in 2020, are thriving and growing tall and mighty.
Autumn 2022
Our local team trained farmers in Loma Larga to produce organic fertilizers and collaborated with the Peruvian cacao association to provide materials for 33 smallholder farmers to make their own organic liquid manure.
Summer 2022
The local community in San Pablo has planted 16,665 pine trees to reforest their degraded lands and support the watersheds in the upper Piura mountains.
Summer 2022
In the community-run nursery in Pacaipampa, part of the Piura mountain range, 115,600 tree seedlings have been grown. This area is about 5 hours uphill from the cacao-growing region, where reforestation plays a vital role in protecting Piura’s watersheds.
Spring 2022
Native tree species seedlings from the dry forest are being distributed to the local growers and planted in the cacao forests.
Spring 2022
In the nurseries in the Choco, the highest parts of the Andeas in Piura, local communities are raising 100.000 pine seedlings for community driven reforestation.
Winter 2021
Our Bean Team hosts a training on pruning old ancestral Piura Blanco cocoa trees to improve on-site productivity.
Autumn 2021
Bean Team Leader Jan is visiting the reforestation project in the andean part of Piura. Over the last 5 years several hundred of hecta have been reforested with pin wood thereby generating an alternative income solution improving watersheds in this dry region.
Summer 2021
Our local team sets up a nursery in La Quemazon to reproduce 18 types of native tree species. The good seeds were collected in the local dry forests.
Summer 2021
In cooperation with the peruvian cacao organization we organize training courses for the production and application of organic fertilizers.
Spring 2021
Our Bean Team set up a nursery for 5.000 seedlings of selected white cacao and 5.000 seedlings of native tree species.
Spring 2021
Our Bean Team collected seeds from native tree species in danger of extinction in the dry forest of Dotor.
Winter 2020
Our cacao growers engaged in a training course for the production of Biochar.
Autumn 2020
Our cacao growers distributed timber wood trees in the mountain region, which serve as a retirement provision for them.
Summer 2020
Our cacao growers planted trees in the mountain region of Piura.
Spring 2020
Our Bean Team helped with the distribution of CORONA care packets.
Spring 2020
Our Bean Team proudly inaugurated a new drying infrastructure in Loma Larga.
Winter 2019
Our partners erected new fences to better protect the forest.
Winter 2019
Our Bean Team built a new community driven nursery in La Quemazon.
Autumn 2019
Our partners seeded and bagged 249000 seedlings.
Summer 2019
Our partners established nurseries for native Andean trees.
Spring 2019
Our Bean Team began cooperation with biodiversity international to intensify community-driven dry forest protection projects in the Piura region.
Autumn 2018
Our partners planted 128800 cacao and other native trees.
Autumn 2017
Our partners planted 108000 cacao and other native trees.
Summer 2017
The Bean Team signed a conservation contract for a dry forest the size of 4000 football fields.
Spring 2017
The Bean Team set up a new farmer association in La Pareja.
Autumn 2016
Our partners planted 125500 cacao and other native trees.
Spring 2016
Our Bean Team started a cooperation with the municipality of Paimas for a massive reforestation project.
Summer 2015
The Bean Team set up a group of women to produce organic fertilizers.
Spring 2015
Our Bean Team started a cooperation with the youth organization of Puerta Pulache to run nurseries.
Spring 2012
Our partners installed clonal gardens to preserve the Piura Blanco cacao.
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