Good Agricultural Practices

Rafael Agustin Orantes is a small-scale palm oil producer who advocates for good practices in his community. By adopting eco-friendly polyculture and organic farming, he’s not only improving his farm’s productivity, he’s working to protect the environment. In partnership with Solidaridad and other stakeholders, Rafa aims to make palm oil farming more resilient to climate change and his crops more productive and sustainable.

Yerlis Barón is the charismatic professor behind a WhatsApp account providing technical advice to 400 small and medium-sized livestock farmers across 12 municipalities in Caquetá, Colombia. As a livestock veterinarian, she supplements the training done by field technicians from Amazonia Connect. Yerlis moved to Florencia, Caqueta’s capital city, two years ago from Arjona in the Caribbean, and now considers the Colombian Amazon her adopted home. 

Over the course of her journey as a coffee farmer in the department of Caqueta, Colombia, Alexis González has challenged traditional gender roles and taken on a leadership role in her community. Now she is inspiring other women to take a greater role in family decisions, band together with other women, and pick up sustainable farming practices through Amazonia Connect.