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JUSSARA 
Agroforestry & Social Justice

The program focus on small to medium family farms in Southern Bahia. The community is composed of family farmers, rural workers as well as indigenous and ‘quilombolas’ (afro descendants)  communities. The region is historically affected by deforestation with low social development indexes. 
The Program intends to implement organic agroforestry and forest restoration, as well as strengthen the families' capacities in agroecological agricultural models and support supply chain establishment.  

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IN TUPI-GUARANI LITERALLY MEANS

The highest, the tallest

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GOALS

Implement 2'000 ha of organic agroforestry and forest restoration

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LOCATION

Atlantic Forest,

Brazil

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TYPE

Agroforestry & Forest Restoration (A/R)

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SOCIAL

IMPACTS

  • Support the creation of productive models for subsistence and commercialization purpose for families

  • Improvement of families' life quality

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

  • Restoration of the biome that have most suffered from deforestation in the country

  • Carbon dioxide sequestration and storage

  • Ecological corridors in one of the Brazilian's biodiversity hotspots

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ECONOMIC

IMPACTS

  • Models include wide diversity of native species, as well as fruits, cocoa and Juçara's palm tree (Euterpe edulis), a species threatened of extinction

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