Posts by Julia Gentner
We’re Hiring: Part-time Social Media & Outreach Coordinator Position
About us Grow Ahead is an organization that connects people directly to small-scale farmer organizations to support them as they combat climate change in their communities. We partner with local farmer-run cooperatives to support community-led reforestation projects that benefit people and the planet. Industrial agriculture and food production are major contributors to climate change. Small-scale…
Read MoreAgroforestry & Food Security For Small-Scale Farming Communities
Agroforestry is a system of land management where trees are deliberately planted with agricultural crops to emulate native forestry systems. Farmers and Indigenous communities have been planting crops and trees together in food-forest systems for thousands of years. In recent years agroforestry has become increasingly recognized as a way of land management that sequesters carbon…
Read MoreInternational Coffee Day: Coffee, Climate Change & Small-Scale Farmers
This International Coffee Day we are focusing on one of the biggest challenges to coffee: climate change. Climate change is proving to be catastrophic for coffee growers, cutting the global area suitable for coffee growth in half. Due to habitat shifting & alteration, droughts and temperature extremes, Arabica coffee has been added to the IUCN…
Read MorePlanting with Pangoa: Update on the Women-led Reforestation in Peru Project
Reforestation is underway at CAC Pangoa! We recently received an update from the Pangoa Women’s Committee and the Reforestation Manager on the progress of reforestation so far. While the cooperative has had to make adjustments due to COVID-19 precautions, the reforestation team is busy managing the nurseries and holding technical training around the importance of…
Read MoreSustainability, Small-Scale Farmers and Responsible Reforestation | A Webinar with Grow Ahead
A webinar with Grow Ahead discussing the importance of nature based climate solutions like agroforestry and regenerative, organic agriculture and ways that your business can reach it’s sustainability goals by partnering with community-led agroforestry projects that benefit people and the planet.
Read MoreGrow Ahead Partners with Food 4 Farmers for Reforestation Projects in Nicaragua, Colombia, and Guatemala
Grow Ahead, a digital platform that supports farmer-led climate resiliency projects around the world, is joining forces with Food 4 Farmers in partnership with Indigenous and women-led farming cooperatives. This new initiative will launch three crowdfunding campaigns to plant over 93,000 food and habitat trees in community agroforestry projects in Colombia, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
Read MoreWomen-led Reforestation in Nicaragua
Campaign Goal: $20,000
Country: Nicaragua
Grow Ahead teamed up with SOPPEXCCA to support a women-led food security and reforestation project in Nicaragua.
Funded January 2021
Read MoreIndigenous-led Reforestation in Colombia
Campaign Goal: $20,000
Country: Colombia
Grow Ahead teamed up with COMEPECAFE to support a indigenous-led reforestation project in the mountains of Cauca, Colombia.
Funded March 2021
Read MoreReforestation and Beekeeping in Guatemala
Campaign Goal: $20,000
Country: Guatemala
Grow Ahead has teamed up with Maya Ixil to support an indigenous-led reforestation and beekeeping project in Guatemala.
Funded March 2021
Read MoreLoans for Beekeeping: An Update on Past Loan Recipients
We got an update from the past recipients of the Micro-loans for Beekeeping in Chiapas campaign to hear about how the loans were used, the impacts of beekeeping on coffee production and how farmers are adapting admits the COVID-19 pandemic.
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