Café Ayni
As of 2021, we started a new agriculture initiative with coffee farmers. Farmers living in the eastern jungle region of Peru live in extreme poverty. In the last decade farmers started losing on average 70% of their coffee crop to diseases like Coffee Leaf Rust. Due to the unique mountainous climate the coffee produced here is some of the best in the world yet families continue to live in dire poverty. Our Agriculture team are experts in soil fertility and pest and plague management. Our skills are particularly positioned to solve the devastating impacts of coffee plant disease.
We are focusing on two simple solutions
- Intensive agroecological pests and plague management techniques that will lower the toll of coffee disease allowing farmers to double their production.
- Intensive production and post production training that will help farmers raise their coffee score allowing them to sell their product for a higher price.
We are working with 50 dedicated farmers in four coffee growing communities. The success of this first cohort of producers will be demonstrated to more coffee growing communities and we will leverage the success to scale up the project.