Cocoa from peasant and Indigenous families – A way to fight climate change
This case study reveals the successful experience of FEDPRACAO CBBA, a bolivian producer organization that recently developed a Climate Resilience Plan based on cocoa for adaptating and mitigating the effects of climate change.
You can have a look at some of their positive results:
- The establishment of cocoa agroforestry systems allows the generation of diverse short, medium- and long-term economic income for cocoa producing and harvesting families in the Cochabamba Tropics region. One of the advantages of cocoa agroforestry systems is the recovery and conservation of soils, the development of nutrient cycling, carbon dioxide (CO2) fixation and crop diversification, which in turn makes them more resilient to climate change.
- The organizational innovation of developing technology transfer services led by a team of young technicians called ‘Escuadrilla’ – the cocoa squad - to carry out the rehabilitation of unproductive cocoa plots through grafting, thus increasing yields from 3 qq to 15 qq/ha. FEDPRACAO, has sldo included women and young people in the Cocoa Grafters team within the Squad.
- In addition, it has been possible to develop through its institutional linkage a series of exchanges of experiences with different cocoa producing organizations, public and private entities, such as CEIBO R.L., Sauce TIPNIS, UMSA Experimental Station, Sara Ana Experimental Centre of FIBL-ECOTOP, dedicated to the production, research, industrialization and commercialization of organic cocoa.
- The cocoa bean has generated greater income for peasant and indigenous families, since those producers have worked together under the general assembly of FEDPRACAO CBBA. Financial benefits have been distributed from increasing the price of cocoa by 10% so that families have a fair price for their cocoa.