INTERNATIONAL MULTI-LOCATION VARIETY TRIAL

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER OF NEW COFFEE VARIETIES RESILIENT TO CLIMATE
CHANGE TO LIFT COFFEE FARMERS’ PROFITABILITY IN GUATEMALA & HONDURAS

  • Project Budget: € 75,000

  • Beneficiaries: 73 direct beneficiaries: 13 farmers managing the OFTTs & 60 farmers trained during the Farmer Field Days.
    Indirectly 365 people.

  • Partners: 4

PURPOSE

  • Establish 13 OFTTs - 6 in Guatemala, 7 in Honduras - to increase the knowledge of technologies and practices to sustain and grow coffee volumes
  • Train partner agronomists and farmers in trail establishment, maintenance and data collection;
  • Data analysis and inclusion to advance global coffee knowledge on varieties;
  • Dissemination of results of OFTTs to improve knowledge of farmers on improved varieties and climate smart technologies.

The nature of this project is to conduct research and to build the body of knowledge on profitability and climate smart agricultural practices. Information generated through the network of trials is open to the coffee industry globally and is intended to reach coffee farmers globally.

This project can be replicated in other coffee regions and is possible thanks to the support of World Coffee Research, Fedecocagua, CoHonducafé, EFICO Central America/EFICO Foundation. It runs from July 2018 to December 2023.

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