Livelihood Carbon Fund 3 (LCF3) Project

    The Project intervention aims to mitigate the threats and impact of climate change on the Gayo coffee by supporting the optimization of shading for the coffee farms while at the same time offering a diversified source of income for the beneficiaries; support the promotion and adoption of good agricultural practices to enhance coffee productivity; and contribute to improvements in soil fertility and soil/water conservation. 

The Project aims to positively impact the livelihoods of c. 10,000 smallholder coffee farmers, by promoting the production and distribution of c. 1.8 million tree seedlings (amongst them income generating species such as avocado, durian, and candlenut), facilitating farmers’ access to locally produced organic fertilizer and by making available sustained technical assistance in an effort to diversify their income opportunities and ultimately to improve their livelihoods. 

The envisaged shade optimization systems will promote tree diversification through local hardwood and mostly cash crop trees to improve local climate, increase productivity of the coffee smallholder farmland by adapting to climate change, mitigating the pest and diseases associated to it, protecting water resources and avoid soil erosion.