We need your support, we are looking for international experts to collaborate with us, Working Together, offering solutions through workshops and conferences. The experts will be integrated into the work plan and budget of the calls for projects and climate finance on which we will compete.

We aim to cooperate and share the programme and budget that will be allocated to us with international experts, in tandem with our team of specialists, which I invite you to consult in detail below.

We are talking about regenerative agriculture, more precisely coffee, which is the world’s leading agricultural product and which France sadly buys from countries that do not produce it.

Colombia is the third largest producer in the world, here coffee represents the main agricultural export product, and the Planadas region we will tell you about, the third in the ranking of coffee production in the country.

We must also point out that the Planadas region is a victim of disorder caused by terrorism. It was here in 1964 that the internal armed conflict in Colombia began, resulting in the birth of FARC, and it is also here that the country’s peace organization took place in 2016.

Add to the backdrop:

– Global demand for coffee is growing and production has been in deficit in the last two years, while being optimistic for the current year which is positive. However, we must take into account the possibility of a setback in terms of quantity and quality.

(See ICO https://icocoffee.org/documents/cy2023-24/Coffee_Report_and_Outlook_December_2023_ICO.pdf )

– The global coffee sector is currently facing major challenges. About 50% of cultivated areas are likely to be no longer exploitable in the coming decades due to the impacts of climate change (extreme temperatures and droughts, diseases and pests, torrential rains, erosion, pollinator depletion, etc.). Moreover, 70% of the world’s production is in the hands of small family farms, struggling to survive.

(See CIRAD https://www.cirad.fr/les-actualites-du-cirad/agenda/2023/comment-cultiver-le-cafe-dans-un-contexte-de-polycrise )

Our webpage has more background and project details. (https://tierrasdemontana.com/en/the-project-terra-mountain/)

Accordingly

The economic model of TDM is based on a practice of regenerative agriculture on a large scale, the valorization of biomass residues and the creation of carbon credits through lessons and disciplinary agreements with partners, whether they are corporations or governments.

For a specific purpose: To ensure the well-being of the families of our local partners.

The project provides for the availability of farmers (with agreements predetermined by specific terms and conditions), agricultural land and in the same way, direct trading that ensures sales and direct distribution with customers, so that they can take full advantage of the financial benefits of these sales.

Thus, by accumulating the necessary financial resources, producers can also acquire these organic soils at preferential prices.

An alliance based on principles of responsible and ethical practices, which focuses solely on regeneration by establishing guarantees with government institutions to prevent contamination of neighboring crops.

These agreements are mutually beneficial and involve the parties not only in the business and economic benefits, but also in the research and development of the project through data collection, the analyses and applications that underlie the evolution of modern regenerative agriculture.

In this presentation, we examine the economic and financial opportunities for 200 to 500 families in the Planadas region, which represents a reproducible potential for the transition to sustainable agriculture.

Imagine a simple and comprehensive business model that integrates both knowledge and knowledge transmission to ensure a safe and secure future in a rural world that remains highly vulnerable.

Nevertheless, TDM is engaged on various aspects, including the implementation of a rigorous collectivism whether upstream:

– Acquire residual biomass from the producer and process it into biochar.

– Proposal of biochar-based compost at local, international level and in a privileged way for partners.

– Establishment of a collective structure for harvesting, processing of cherries, drying and logistics of residues.

– Creation of a laboratory specialized in roasting and bagging logistics, with a dosing device and a packaging area for shipping.

– Valorization of green heat from the manufacture of biochar to provide a green coffee roasting unit and a parchment coffee drying unit at the same time.

Similarly downstream:

– Simplify Direct Trading for coffee roasters and buyers by connecting directly with producers.

– Implementation of optimized or outsourced coffee shipping logistics for pallets, containers, both for transport and storage.

– Monitoring of quality and compliance, various procedures including certification, transit documentation for exports of goods in order to remove barriers between the place of production and the arrival at customer facilities.

Our goal is to make our project known to the agricultural, academic, scientific and financial research community.

Ehoud Cola, Director and co-author of Tierras de Montaña.

N.B. To launch the organization in 2023, Ehoud Cola and Julian Andres Cadavid collaborated on the design of Tierras de Montaña, and the following people expressed interest in joining the team by sending a letter of interest:

• Edilson Duran Silvestre, Project Coordinator.
  Producer at Planadas, Director of the CMS Cooperative of Planadas, the main beneficiary of TDM.
• Davier Aviler Yepes, responsible for the sustainability of the intervention.
  Producer at Planadas, CEO of the ASOPAP Association.
• Ehud Cola co-author of Tierras from Montaña.
  CEO Sarah Jo S.A.S.  Coffee Forest and coffee t+ank, Technician iIndustrial, Coffee Specialist
• Julián Andrés Cadavid, Co-author, in charge of the development and follow-up of the project.
  Specialist in agroforestry and agriculture Refreshing.
• Belky Paola Chávez Tarazona, TDM Project Director.
  Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, National University of Medellín. Monitoring, research and development of pyrolysis.
• Redouan Saiah, dCT Projects.
  CEO of LifeChar S.A.S., supplier of pyrolysis and heat recovery.
• Juan Pablo Parra, Consultant climate finance.
  Professor of Climate Finance, Graduate of the Externado 
• Maria Luz Hidalgo, Biochar Production and Quality Consultant
  CEO of Tectocarbon S.A. 
• Oscar Javier Galeano, Forestry and Regenerative Agriculture Consultant
  Forest engineer and temporary professor at the National University of Colombia.
• Emiliano Maleta, Resource Assessment Consultant in Regenerative Agriculture.
  CEO of Bioenergy Cultura.  Master’s Degree in Agricultural Economics.
• Celia Schlosser, Science & Technology Consultant
  Sales Manager at Revtech S.A. Engineer/Master’s degree, Food Science and Technology, R+D (Institut Agro Dijon), MBA (IAE Dijon)