Traditional slash-and-burn farming by smallholders causes 90% of deforestation within the Peruvian Amazon, destroying biodiversity and contributing to climate breakdown. It traps low-income communities in a cycle of poverty. Typically, farmers using slash-and-burn agricultural techniques earn just £100 per month - this is barley enough to cover a family's basic needs and leaves them vulnerable to crisis. Farmers lack the training and support to change their situation and build resilience.

Farmers need a realistic and achievable alternative that will enable them to move away from slash-and-burn agriculture. Our model of agroforestry offers this alternative: it's a tree-based agriculture system that combines planting crops, fruit-bearing orchard trees and timber trees. This restores degraded farmland to forest cover, while increasing the productivity of the farmers' agricultural plots and enables them to diversify their income by cultivating and selling a variety of products.