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LIST OF PROJECTS

The agroforestry Project Gamitana Farm allows students and volunteers to be part of social projects. Its main purpose is to improve the quality of life in local communities, through the sustainable production of Amazonian fruits and wood species. Additionally, a sustainable supply chain is established to source organic foods to Inkaterra lodges in Madre de Dios and the local market.

Fruits such as Brazil nut (Bertholettia excelsa), cacao (Theobroma cacao), rough lemon (Citrus x limonia), aguaje (Mauritia flexuosa), araça (Eugenia stipitata), cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum), cashew (Anacardium occidentale), pijuayo (Bactris gasipaes), zapote (Quararibea cordata), macambo (Theobroma bicolor), breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis), Peruvian groundcherry (Physallis peruviana) and five varieties of banana, as well as tree species including capirona (Calycophyllum spruceanum), erythrina (Erythrina spp.), espintana (Oxandra xylopioides), cedar (Cedrela odorata), and shihuahuaco (Dypterix odorata).

Activities at Gamitana Farm include:

  • Native fruit collection to obtain and sow sedes.
  • Nursery design for seedbeds.
  • Transplant of seedlings to tubes.
  • Seedling collection for natural regeneration, as well as other genetic materials of fruit and wood species from plots.

Gamitana Farm aims to outreach experiences with local communities, sharing methods to gather genetic material and the installment of agroforestry plots according to the needs of each community.