A Sertão fazandeiro who has learned sustainable new agricultural methods through this scheme. © International Service.
In 2010/11, The Rufford Foundation provided a grant of £2,500 to International Service.
The project Building a Sustainable and Solidarity Sertão is being implemented in seven municipalities of the Sertão interior region in Pernambuco, north-eastern Brazil. There are three partner organisations from the Sertão involved: CECOR (The Centre of Rural Community Education), AQCC (The Association of Quilombolas: Conceptions of Creoles) and CHAPADA (The Centre of Habitation and Support of the Small Farmers of Araripe). The project is supported by the European Union, International Service and The Rufford Foundation. The project’s actions are aimed at strengthening and increasing the production of agro-ecological farming and the dynamics of solidarity commercialisation.
The target beneficiaries are 700 families who will be involved in processes of plantation and increasing sustainable livelihoods through the creation of agro-ecological Production Units in rural communities and in urban communities that are located in the city peripheries. As well as this, the project involves local 350 children who will be taught how to create and sustain garden plantations in community schools in urban areas.
