Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  118
• Project status 2022
  Ended
• Project name
  Avoided Deforestation in the Coffee Forest in El Salvador (Fideicomiso Cafe y Ambiente)
• Secondary name
  Coffee and Environment Initiative
• Country
  El Salvador
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  70000
• Start year
  2008
• End year
  2023
• Duration
  16
• Project description
  The project is a mechanism that looks to stop the deforestation of coffee forest, which every year loses area due to the economic problems suffered by the coffee growers. The project is an initiative of the national coffee sector with the support of the Multisectorial Investment Bank (Banco Multisectorial de Inversiones - BMI), and is based on the commitment to the no-deforestation nor change in the use of the soil for land that presently is covered by the coffee forest, which includes around 160 thousand hectares, belonging to close to 19,000 coffee producers who have credits with FICAFE and FINSAGRO. For the carbon project, BMI has set up a trust fund, the FIDECAM, which will give an economic incentive to the coffee growers by reducing their yearly costs of debts by up to 30%. In turn the growers will assume the commitment of not cutting the forest and maintain the coffee activity, stopping the actual rate of deforestation and change in the use of the coffee forest, this will lessen the emission of the GHG of the area that will be not deforested and will maintain the carbon stock.
• Objective 1
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 2
  social development
• Objective 3
  climate
• Deforestation drivers
  local livelihoods
• Type of forest
  ND
• Project activity
  REDD
• Project Type
  REDD
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  NA
• Multiple locations?
  Yes
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Departments : Ahuachapán, Santa Ana, Sonsonate, La Libertad, San Salvador, La Paz, Cuscatlán, San Vicente, Usulután, San Miguel and Morazán
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Multiple locations

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2008-2023
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  6692738
• Leakage is expected?
  ND
• Carbon pools included
  ND
• Gasses included
  ND
• Reference period start year
  ND
• Reference period end year
  ND
• Carbon standard 1
  CCB

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  40387
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  http://www.climate-standards.org/2008/10/22/avoided-deforestation-in-the-coffee-forest-in-el-salvador/
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  internal
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
• Carbon standard 2 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3
  none
• Carbon standard 3 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Expiry date
  ND
• Source of information
  CDM PDD 2008: https://s3.amazonaws.com/CCBA/Projects/Avoided_Deforestation_in_the_Coffee_Forest_in_El_Salvador/ficafe_PDD_v06.pdf; Accessed Jun 2023

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Check
• Monetary benefit type
  Conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  Payments come in the form of 30% debt reduction for farmers who agree to not clear forests on their land.
• Provides employment?
  ND
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  agroforestry | micro-credits
• Is there tenure clarification?
  Yes
• Is there environmental education?
  No
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  No
• Is there forest enhancement?
  No
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  ND
• Is there other community benefits?
  ND