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Brazil

Brazil

International Coffee Partners in Brazil

Brazil is known as one of the essential producers of coffee worldwide and with that come significant challenges for the smallholder coffee farmers in the region. Family farmers are representing 35 % of the national production. ICP focuses on these families to provide access to support services, markets, climate change adaptation practices, and more. Our project is located in the center of Brazil: Sul de Minas. This region is vital in the production of coffee for Brazil, so it only makes sense to address the challenges these farmers face.

In Brazil, we focus on:

  • promoting productive and entrepreneurial strategies,
  • organizational development by supporting farmer organizations,
  • developing circular economy on farm level,
  • establishing climate-smart coffee regions,
  • youth development and empowerment,
  • gender empowerment through an inclusive approach.

We have implemented projects in several coffee-producing regions in Brazil since 2010. Click the following button to view all past projects and access the attached final reports.

Achievements Since the First Project Started

3,954

Total households reached since 2001

54,178 ha

Impacted farmland in current phase

40 %

Adoption rate for Good Agricultural Practices in 2022

100 %

Climate-smart agricultural practices adoption rate in 2022

26 %

Rate of women in project activities and trainings in 2022

64

Number of supported farmer organizations in current phase

Current Project Phase

We aim to improve the livelihoods of people in rural areas and contribute to shaping the coffee landscapes for future generations by:

  • increasing farmers' climate resiliency,
  • promoting sustainable coffee production and protection of natural resources,
  • improving access to support services and markets,
  • disseminating the projects' learnings through a Community of Practice (CoP),
  • developing inclusive farming family businesses and empowering youth.

We want to build a coffee landscape that is attractive for the young generation, that effectively protects natural resources, integrates climate change adaptation and mitigation, and livelihood perspectives for smallholders. We will achieve this through the implementation and scaling of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) based on the coffee&climate approach. How to reduce and reuse organic waste from coffee production and processing is one of the learnings that public and private partners share in the Community of Practice.

Gean Gomes Ferreira

"In the ICP project, I receive training and resources. I am currently allocating 30 % of my land to growing specialty coffee. Over the next years, I am planning to increase it to 80 %. I am selling my specialty coffee in the local community as a side business. But I hope that one day, people far and wide will know it by name."

Gean Gomes Ferreira