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Connecting people with small-scale farmers for sustainable climate solutions. 🌱👩🏽‍🌾 Join us in tackling climate change and injustice!

Portland, OR
Joined November 2012
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We must keep working every day on dismantling the colonial and racist exploitation system in which we live, & remember that bottom-up #cooperation and community-led projects are the hearth of climate action. 🌱SUPPORT AGROFORESTRY PROJECTS ON THE GROUND: growahead.org/plant-trees/
News! We partnered with Ka Kuxtal Much Meyaj for an incredible mission in Campeche, Mexico. We´ll bring together 15 Indigenous communities to reforest 250 hectares of burned and deforested jungle, plant 25,000 local plants, and create a seed-saving program for local communities.
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Looking to learn about the importance of nature-based climate solutions like agroforestry & regenerative organic agriculture, and ways your business can reach its sustainability goals? Join us for a webinar on Wed June 21 at 10am PST Registration Link 👉lnkd.in/eWNXbB7n
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🌱 Dive into the world of agroforestry and join us as we harness its power to combat climate change! Check out the latest blog post from @DrBronner and learn how @grow_ahead´s making a difference. #Agroforestry #ClimateAction #SustainableSolutions bit.ly/3J9HvWt
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We have almost reached our $60,000 goal! Help us support Indigenous farmers & communities in Chiapas, Mexico as they plant trees in traditional Mayan agroforestry systems. The project aims to improve soil health + restore freshwater to the Lacandona Jungle growahead.org/indigenous-led…
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Looking back on all the great work the Grow Ahead community was able to support in 2022 and looking to continuing to support community-led #reforestation projects in 2023! 🌱
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Our campaign with Kuapa Kokoo has closed, but we still want to raise awareness about the importance of ethical and fair trade cocoa beans. We hope you learn something new from this article! 🌱 lnkd.in/efG4XY7b
Great news!! 🎉 We have met our fundraising goal of $50,000 for the Kuapa Kokoo campaign!! Contributing to planting 180,000 trees in total in Offinso, Ghana.
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Our new campaign is underway! 🌱We’re partnering with the Association for Agricultural, Education and Environment Cooperation (ACAEMPE) to plant 80,000 native species and adapted fruit trees in Brazil. Be part of the process and plant a tree today! 🇧🇷
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On #WorldEnvironmentDay let’s remember that we have lost 420 million hectares of forest over the past 30 years. But, let's also remember that we can change this. 🎯Join the crowdfund supporting Fairtrade cocoa farmers plant 180K trees in Ghana. bit.ly/3NVYL1i
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#WorldEnvironmentDay  #OnlyOneEarth  We need to take sustainable care and use of natural resources and guarantee a future without hunger 🌏🌱
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Looking for plans for #WorldFairTradeDay2022 tomorrow? Join a great conversation with leaders from solidarity efforts around the world for #FairTrade, workers' rights, global health & #FoodSovereignty RSVP ⤵️ fairworld.info/register
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Youth Can continue global struggles for the right to food, agrarian reform, protection of common goods. Here are some key points 👇🧵
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4/5 To encourage young people to remain in rural communities as productive citizens, it is necessary an agrarian reform that gives landless and farming people ownership and control of the land they work
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5/5 Social Peace is a prerequisite to food sovereignty. Food must not be used as a weapon. Everyone has the right to be free from violence. 🕊️🕊️