Ouro Verde positive outcomes for local communities!
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This collaboration has provided an example to other projects by facilitating longer term positive outcomes for local communities in very uncertain local funding environments.
Which tree species provide best benefits in terms of soil improvement, food and products that can be sold in local markets?
These are some of the questions addressed by Carolyn Petersen since the project since 2018. She has worked alongside Toby Pennington with the Instituto Ouro Verde, an NGO based in Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil. The work—funded by BBSRC, GCRF and, more recently, industrial sponsors, aims to improve small scale agroforestry and silvopastoral systems providing both food security and increased incomes while bringing environmental benefits in Amazonia’s most deforested area. The project has also examined how women’s livelihoods and gendered roles in family farming systems might be negotiated and maximised.
