Sustainable Landscapes: Conserving the Ecuadorian Amazon through indigenous community agroforestry. In Ecuador’s Napo province, the Rainforest Alliance’s Sustainable Landscapes team worked with Kichwa communities to implement a long-term forest conservation strategy that connects them to government programs and buyers—strengthening opportunities for them to earn a living from the forest while protecting it. This work is part of the Initiative for Conservation in the Andean Amazon (ICAA), a long-term regional program created by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that brings together more than 30 local and international partner organizations for the conservation of the Amazon biome in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. …...more
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