ECOTIERRA is the culmination of 20 years of work with coffee and cocoa cooperatives and their members in different stages of their value chains. Then, we realized that most producers had the significant untapped potential to increase production on degraded land but lacked the financial means and access to quality inputs, adapted technical assistance, and carbon finance.
Because we believe in the power of business partnerships for addressing their social and environmental issues, we created Ecotierra to bring the most adapted solutions to scale which have the added benefit of fighting climate change. We design, co-develop, invest in, and operate sustainable land use projects that generate socio-economic and environmental benefits through empowering rural communities.
"ECOTIERRA generates returns for investors through designing and operating integrated interventions which respond to producers’, cooperatives’ and buyers’ needs - including (i) patient credit for land use transition (ii) traceability and marketing tools to position coffees on specialty markets and (iii) revenue diversification through climate finance and the generation of VCS-certified carbon credits from the coffee supply chain."
