OBJECTIVES:
To establish organically managed perennial crops on small farmers plots to diminish advance of agricultural frontier on the vecinity of the Volcán Zunil protected area.
Located on one of the most biological diverse are of Guatemala, this project will develop a series of workshops to raise awareness about the area's biodiversity importance, provide techniques and methods to establish agroforestry systems on previously cleared associates plots to provide economically productive options and thus try to diminish agricultural frontier advance on the cloud forest protected area.
As means to give project sustainability the project includes training on organized production and commercialization.