Location
Vietnam
Project period
2024 -2025
Key commodities
Coffee
Priority issues
Climate, Livelihoods
Partner communities
The project will involve two Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee businesses, Vĩnh Hiệp and Tín Thành Đạt, working with 1,500 farmers. The Rainforest Alliance and Acorn will partner with these businesses and farmers to implement regenerative coffee farming practices that can increase their plots’ resilience, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration capabilities.
Top project objectives
- Optimizing farms resilience on climate change through agroforestry: Through this partnership with Acorn, we will advance contextualized agroforestry design for the Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee farms in the region, optimizing their climate resilience as well as maximizing the carbon sequestration capability of the plot.
- Improving farmers livelihoods: The project aims to improve livelihoods of 1,500 Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee farmers by giving them access to the carbon market. Like in all of Acorn’s carbon projects, when Carbon Removal Units (CRUs) are generated through a farmer’s implementation of regenerative agroforestry techniques, 80% of the revenue from those CRUs flows directly back to the farmer.
This combination will maximize the long-term benefits for farmers by engendering a resilient ecosystem, more sustainable crop yields, and an economic incentive.
Funders
Rabobank Acorn program
Rainforest Alliance contact
Thiet Nguyen, Director, Vietnam
