Project Highlights
Funders
Defra, Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate
Partners
The initiative was led by the SAN Secretariat, working alongside Fundación Natura, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and the Alliance of Bioversity International–CIAT—combining community engagement, technical expertise, and regional networks to co-create a durable, community-driven territorial agenda.
Implementation dates
May 2022
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March 2023
Commodities
Coffee
Beneficiaries
Coffee-producing families and youth/women in four villages (skills, livelihoods); local farmer associations and municipal authorities in Planadas (CTA and PES framework); and regional ecosystems (nature-based solutions for restoration and resilience).
About the project
Working with local and regional partners, SAN convened community representatives in four villages of a post-conflict coffee region to co-create a Common Territorial Agenda—a long-term development vision built from the ground up. Together, they mapped community assets and designed nature-based solutions that strengthen ecosystem services and unlock sustainable livelihood opportunities for coffee-producing families.
Outcomes
SAN and partners co-created a Common Territorial Agenda for a post-conflict coffee region, delivering a full toolkit for community-led action: a CTA methodological framework; reports on the coffee value chain/bio-business, youth and gender, GIS, and a situational analysis; plus a reference framework to launch a Payment for Environmental Services scheme in Planadas. Using appreciative inquiry, the Community Capitals Framework, stakeholder mapping, focus groups, and GIS, the team identified actionable strategies to strengthen youth skills and leadership, conserve ecosystems through incentives, address psychosocial needs, accelerate on-farm tech adoption, and improve infrastructure for market access—advancing climate mitigation, biodiversity, and resilient livelihoods through locally owned landscape governance.