Cuba also announced this Sunday the BioCubaCafé initiative for cultivating and producing organic coffee. For the first time, the COP was dedicated to agriculture and food.

Its director, Wilfredo Arregui, presented the results of the first three years of the IRES project, among which stands out the transformation of more than 4,500 hectares that, with the implementation of new knowledge and the use of inputs and equipment, turned into new agroforestry and silvopastoral systems.

The IRES Climate Resilience project in Cuba’s Agricultural Systems, with the slogan “Sowing the Future,” is the first initiative of its kind in Cuba, implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and the fourth designed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Latin America and the Caribbean, funded by the Green Climate Fund.

According to its representatives, the initiative aims to increase the climate resilience of vulnerable rural households and communities by rehabilitating agroforestry landscapes in seven selected Cuban municipalities.

IRES aims to increase agricultural production’s resilience to climate change and guarantee food security by improving ecosystem services through agroforestry systems.

Michele Curto, president of the Agency for Cultural and Economic Exchange with Cuba, gave a detailed dissertation on BioCubaCafe, a mixed agroforestry company established between the Lavazza Foundation, from Italy, and Cubacafé, dedicated to the processing and marketing of organic coffee harvested in eastern Cuba.

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