Indigenous Voices
   Restoring our
         Lands, Environment, and
      Protecting Our Culture

This project is located in Tacaratu, Pernambuco, and focuses on land restoration, social, economic, and environmental protection of their natural resources and livelihoods, in accordance with traditional customs, laws, decision-making, and complex organizational structure.  Key

activities we are supporting include:

• Semi-arid and Wetlands biodiversity conservation

       and sustainable management; Food security, promoting

       agroforestry, and diversity of traditional crops;

• Activities linking food-health-medicinal plants;

• Rehabilitating degraded farmlands, and ecosystems;

• Maintenance of dispersed trees, cover crops, and biomass

      production with resilient plant varieties;

• Water management- capture, and storage (both in soil

       and vegetation), contour lines or curves, and terraces;

• Planting practices to enhance stratification, and

      diversification with herbaceous, shrub, and tree species

      maximizing the photosynthetic capacity of the plots;

• Access to new markets and economic opportunities

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•  Management of cultivated vegetation: active pruning and thinning;

• Carbon Sequestration in the AgroForestry

• Developing Women and Youth STEM Skills for Microbiological Soils Restoration