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Building a Model for Carbon-Coffee for the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico

Grantee Name: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur

Hotspot
Mesoamerica
Location
Mexico
Amount
$20,000
Dates
Dec 2008 – Aug 2009
Keywords
Agriculture, Climate mitigation, Conservation finance

Develop a conceptual model and good practices for promoting conservation and shade coffee that maximizes the carbon benefits. This grant calls for bringing experts and practitioners together to examine their experiences, document the lessons learned and propose a model for future replication that can support connectivity throughout Mesoamerica’s highlands through the promotion of coffee-carbon projects.

Strategic Direction :

1 Foster civil society participation in regional decisionmaking on select policies and investments to promote the conservation and sustainable development of the Selva Maya and the Selva Zoque and Chiapas/Guatemala Highlan

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