At Agros, we believe caring for the land is inseparable from caring for people. Rooted in faith and guided by the knowledge of farming families, we embrace our responsibility as stewards of God’s creation. Through our Climate Smart Commitment, we equip communities to restore their land, strengthen their resilience, and build a future defined by dignity, ownership, and lasting prosperity.
Increasing farmer’s resilience and adaptive capacity.
Reducing agriculture’s carbon footprint and making agriculture part of the solution.
Ensuring farmer’s livelihood are not threatened by mitigation and adaptation efforts: practices must benefit farming families.
Farming families are strengthening their resilience to climate change by applying practices like strategic crop rotation, reducing pests and disease cycles while building healthier ecosystems that sustain their land and livelihoods.
Through terraces, reforestation, water protection, and the use of biofactories for natural inputs, families are restoring their environment while reducing reliance on chemical fertilizers and lowering emissions.
These practices are designed to help families thrive, improving yields, income, and long-term stability. For example, Agros farmers are cultivating grafted coffee plants that combine drought-resistant roots with high-quality varieties, ensuring resilience and consistent production.
Integration of technology, increase of productivity, and proper water resource management.
To integrate these three climate-smart principles, Agros embarked on a comprehensive learning journey. Initially, to trained farmers and staff in Best Agricultural Practices (BAP). This ongoing process evolves continuously within each area of impact of Agros programs in Central America.
Investment in training modules, mesh houses, and biofactories transcends the concept of climate-smart agriculture, into building climate-smart villages where residents adopt the following processes:
The eco-stoves reduces household firewood consumption by 70%. The system is supported by plantations aimed at producing the firewood each family needs for cooking, preventing environmental depredation.
Before: require large amounts of firewood, poor ventilation exposing households to highly toxic, dense smoke.
Now: The fire’s isolation in combination with better air flow, makes the stove more efficient, requiring a smaller fire and less wood to thoroughly cook food.
The rational use of the resource, together with the protection of water sources, guarantees clean and safe water for the families and abundant water for irrigation.
Before: the water did not meet ideal hygiene conditions, which had adverse effects on health, and the planting periods and yields were subject to the behavior of the rainy season.
Now: the community has water resources year-round, which supports a full life in an agricultural community
Families have flushing toilets connected to septic tanks, which ensures proper handling of excreta.
Before: during the rainy season, common pits would turn into flood flows that contaminated the community and increased the risk of unsanitary conditions.
Now: By promoting hygienic practices, diseases are avoided.
Recycling processes to ensure that chemical residues do not reach rivers and other water sources, preventing health hazards.
Before: Villagers used containers contaminated with chemical residues as household utensils or for agricultural production.
Now: Disposal bins are available for proper chemical waste disposal.
The Agros Aldeas counts with garbage bins in common areas to provide the community with a waste disposal system.
Before: Villagers would burn the garbage in open fields, exposing people to pollutant particles that endanger their health and affect the environment of the community.
Now: Families properly dispose of their waste in bins, which the municipal cleaning system transports to landfill areas.
Increase in crop yields:
18-32%
(depending on the crop)
The application of the CLIMATE SMART PRINCIPLES is not carried out in a controlled lab plot or pilot project but is implemented in a scalable model with all program producers.
Through their daily work, Agros farming families are restoring soil health, increasing carbon capture, and reducing reliance on chemical inputs, lowering emissions while strengthening the productivity and resilience of their land.
Early results from carbon capture measurements using the Cool Farm Tool (CFT) demonstrate the power of these efforts: in Nicaragua, farming families are capturing 208.87 tons of CO₂ through reforested coffee areas, bio-inputs, and protected vegetable production zones, offsetting the equivalent of 59 round-trip flights from Seattle to Rome.
When you give, you equip farming families to restore their land, strengthen their resilience, and build a future defined by dignity and opportunity.
Together, this is what your support makes possible:
Your investment fuels more than climate-smart farming. It helps families grow thriving businesses, care for the land, and create generational change.
Give today to help families overcome climate challenges, restore their land, and build a future that lasts—for themselves, their communities, and our shared planet.
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