Posts by Julia Gentner
Anti-Greenwashing Agreement
Grow Ahead believes in meaningful business partnerships and does not approve of any campaigns that are “greenwashing”.
Read MoreScholarships for Women Farm Leaders in Honduras
Campaign Goal: $5,000
Country: Honduras
Grow Ahead teamed up with COMSA to fund a Organic Agriculture Diploma Workshop for women farm leaders.
Funded May 2020
Read MoreCommunity Associations and Long-Term Resilience: Update from Norandino
We have another update after the Grow Ahead campaign with Cooperativa Norandino to plant 45,000 trees, revitalize coffee production and create community associations to monitor ecosystem health and support education and capacity-building around reforestation and conservation. Read about the work of community associations on reforestation and food security as well as Norandino’s commitment to long-term climate resiliency.
Join Sweetwater: Support Reforestation in Peru’s Coffeelands
Country: Peru
Grow Ahead has teamed up with CAC Pangoa to support a women-run reforestation project in the Amazon in Peru.
Read MoreJoin Cafe Campesino: Support Reforestation in Peru’s Coffeelands
Country: Peru
Grow Ahead has teamed up with CAC Pangoa to support a women-run reforestation project in the Amazon in Peru.
Read MoreClimate Change, Coffee and Honey: An Interview with Alejandra Trujillo
We got the chance to interview Alejandra Trujillo who works with impacto café to get an idea of how climate change is affecting small-scale coffee producers in Mexico and how diversification can offer solutions for communities and the planet.
Read MoreCelebrate Giving Tuesday with Fair World Project and Grow Ahead
This Giving Tuesday, Fair World Project and Grow Ahead are joining forces to couple advocacy with on-the-ground work. Together, our organizations are driving forward the fight for farmer and worker justice, fair supply chains, and an environmentally resilient future. Join the fight for people and the planet!
Read MoreLoan Fund for Beekeeping in Chiapas, Mexico
Campaign Goal: $10,000
Country: Mexico
Grow Ahead raised $10,000 with FondoMás and impacto cafe for a revolving loan fund to support small-scale coffee farmers as they diversify into producing organic honey.
Funded August 2020
Read MoreMicro-Loans for Beekeeping for Small-Scale Coffee Farmers
Campaign Goal: $10,000
Country: Mexico
Grow Ahead funded loans to ten coffee farmers to diversify their coffee production with organic honey
Funded January 2019
Read MoreInterview with Raúl and Carmen from CAC Pangoa
I got the chance to visit the chakra of Raúl and Carmen Alanya Saramiento. Raúl and Carmen are long time members of the Peruvian Cooperative CAC Pangoa and Raúl is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Pangoa. Carmen was one of the initial cooperative members to begin reforesting their land in 2008 and growing coffee in an agroforestry, or food-forest, system. They have an impressive 14 acre farm where they grow coffee, cacao, yucca, bananas, and fruit trees. They have a vegetable garden where they grow spinach, onion, zucchini, squash, peppers and herbs and they raise pigs, chickens, guinea pigs, and fish.
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