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Building a Model for Carbon-Coffee for the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico
Grantee Name: 
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
HOTSPOT
Mesoamerica
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$20,000
DATES
Jan 2009
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Aug 2009
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Project Overview Overview
CEPF Strategic Direction Strategy
HOTSPOT
Mesoamerica
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$20,000
DATES
Jan 2009
-
Aug 2009

Develop a conceptual model and good practices for promoting conservation and shade coffee that maximizes the carbon benefits. This grant calls for bringing experts and practitioners together to examine their experiences, document the lessons learned and propose a model for future replication that can support connectivity throughout Mesoamerica’s highlands through the promotion of coffee-carbon projects.

Strategic Direction: 1 Foster civil society participation in regional decisionmaking on select policies and investments to promote the conservation and sustainable development of the Selva Maya and the Selva Zoque and Chiapas/Guatemala Highlan