Sustainable Development
Developing programs to increase food independence, environmental stewardship, and empowerment of local communities and to help the Peruvian Amazon.
Fruit Tree Initiative
In partnership with the great folks at The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, we work to provide native and other tropical fruit trees to farmers in our rural Peruvian Amazon partner communities, with the goal to create food sovereignty.
Most of the plots of land chosen are areas of secondary forest that were formerly active agricultural land and have been left fallow; these areas have the potential for a reinvigoration of resource production. This practice also contributes to small-scale agroforestry, the trees providing many benefits to the forest, including ground cover, habitat, food sources, and carbon sink.
We hope families are able to augment their own foods first, and then their community’s food source. If and when there is a surplus of produce, we will connect farmers to Iquitos vendors interested in purchasing their fruit.
Beneficiaries choose to participate and choose the trees they would like to cultivate. Farmers agree to not cut any existing forest trees when preparing lands for planting.
Sustainable Development Programs
CONAPAC is committed to investing and partnering in sustainable development projects to help the Peruvian Amazon. Our main sustainable development project is our Fruit Tree Initiative, in partnership with the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation.
30,000 trees have been planted with about 125 beneficiaries across 17 of our partner communities.
— CONAPAC
