Atlantic Forest Project
We fund the research, design the systems, run the producer network, and take the output to market as premium-grade goods, so preserving and regenerating the Mata Atlantica out-earns cutting it down for pasture.
The problem
The Atlantic Forest is one of the most biodiverse biomes on Earth, and one of the most destroyed: less than 15% of the original forest remains.The mechanism is still running: forest is cleared for pasture, soy, eucalyptus, and sprawl, because clearing pays.Until preserving the land pays more, the forest keeps losing.
Our approach
We fund the researchers who know the biome, design production systems tuned to it, contract a network of producers to run them, and take the output to market as premium-grade goods that earn specialty prices.Every farmer in our network should make more money regenerating than extracting, across a diversified stack of native products, premium crops, ecosystem services, and beyond.
Every system we ship pays farmers more than the alternative.Profit is the proof.
Every AFP system rests on work done by Brazilian researchers inside the Mata Atlantica.We fund it, we cite it, we deploy it on partner farms.
Systems are designed with the biome, using native species and ecological function as infrastructure.
Farmers own their land, their decisions, and a fair share of the upside.AFP is a service and a standard; farmers keep the margin they grow.
How it works
We back the Brazilian researchers, agronomists, and field ecologists whose decades of work in the Mata Atlantica make every other pillar possible.We fund their fieldwork, host their trials on partner farms, and pay for the species-level knowledge (germination windows, intercrop ratios, pest dynamics, soil response) that turns a forest into a working system.
We design, install, and supervise regenerative production systems tuned to the specific conditions of the Atlantic Forest.Agroforestry, silvopasture, native-species intercrops, non-timber forest products.Systems engineered to stack multiple revenue streams on the same hectare.
We contract partner farms to run AFP systems and host research trials on the same hectares.They share native-species nurseries, post-harvest processing, pooled logistics to buyers, and the audit records each farm needs to sell at grade.What no single farm can carry alone, the network carries together.
We take producer output to market as graded, origin-stamped goods.Rare native species, careful post-harvest, tight quality control, sold into specialty food, cosmetics, beverage, and restoration supply chains that pay for the grade and the place.
The capital architecture
Conservation projects fail when they depend on perpetual subsidy.Ours is built to earn its own keep.
A foundation finances each project's startup cost: system design, installation, the transition gap before the land pays for itself.After the ramp, each project stands on its own operating cash flow.
Where we work
We work inside the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlantica).Our first pilot region is the Sao Jose dos Campos metro, in the Vale do Paraiba between the Serra do Mar and the Serra da Mantiqueira, a landscape of remnant forest, degraded pasture, and the watershed that feeds Brazil's two largest cities.
What we are working on
Team
AFP is led by Vini, Katherine, and a team of Brazilian researchers, agronomists, and field ecologists with deep experience in the Mata Atlantica.We are small by design, and we build with people who know this forest.
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