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Regenerative coffee for climate resilience

It was a fairytale. Visiting the coffee farmers of Finca Churupampa in Chirinos, a small village high in the Peruvian jungle. Eber Tocto Bermeo, the founder of Finca Churupampa, is devoted to deploy various interventions against climate change, such as regenerative practices, reforestation, developing organic compost and constructing indoor drying facilities.

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Cacao tegen Ontbossing
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Cacao tegen Ontbossing

Cacao kan het verlies van biodiversiteit en klimaatverandering beperken. Studies in Centraal-Amerika laten zien dat agro-ecologische landbouw systemen positief bijdragen aan natuur, milieu, klimaat, voedselzekerheid en leefbaarheid.

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Cocoa Agroforestry as Driver for Climate Resilience
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Cocoa Agroforestry as Driver for Climate Resilience

Our land use and food systems have a great impact on problems causing climate change and biodiversity loss. There is a growing need to find ways that combine agricultural production with nature conservation, while securing farmers livelihoods.

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Agroecological Responses for Climate Resilience
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Agroecological Responses for Climate Resilience

This article investigates two Costa Rican communities that apply an agroforestry logic that includes cocoa cultivation. In this context, are these agroforestry systems viable alternatives to face the effects of climate change?

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Keten via de ketting
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Keten via de ketting

De behoefte aan meer transparantie in voedselketens groeit, om eerlijke producten en prijzen te garanderen. Is blockchain het wondermiddel?

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A better food supply chain with blockchain?
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A better food supply chain with blockchain?

We are willing to make our contribution to a fair and sustainable food system, but who and what can we trust in a world in which everything seems to be questionable? To restore trust, we need to open up the system, create transparency in our food chains and shift to honest and participatory models.

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Blockchain to restore trust in food supply chains?
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Blockchain to restore trust in food supply chains?

Blockchain technology is increasingly being proposed to bring about trust and transparency to arrive at a fair and sustainable food system. But does this hypothesis hold? What other options could we imagine to restore trust and design participatory models in the food system? This article dives into the case of Costa Rican cacao to find out.

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MSc Thesis ‘Nature Conservation versus Human Subsistence?

- The Effect of Conservation Policies on Smallholder Farmers Access to Land Use Opportunities in The Golfo Dulce Forest Reserve, Costa Rica’