Healthy Kids, Healthy Forests
Project/Juridiction proponent
| Name | Website | Location of headquarters | Organization type |
|---|
Project/Juridiction Partners
| Name | Website | Location of headquarters | Organization type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alimentos Nutri-Naturales Sociedad Anónima(ANSA) | ND | Guatemala | Private for profit |
| BanRural | ND | Guatemala | ND |
| Guatemalan Ministry of Agriculture | ND | Guatemala | Public |
| Guatemalan Ministry of Education | ND | Guatemala | Public |
| Maya Nut Institute (formerly known as The Equilibrium Fund) | #http://mayanutinstitute.org/# | Guatemala | NGO/private non for profit |
| Rainforest Alliance | ND | Guatemala | NGO/private non for profit |
Project characteristics
- ID-RECCO ID112
- Project status 2022TBC
- Project nameHealthy Kids, Healthy Forests
- Secondary name
- CountryGuatemala
- Last IDRECCO update year2020
- Size (in hectare)5
- Start year2009
- End year2038
- Duration30
- Project descriptionThrough this program, over 8,000 children from 45 rural schools received Maya Nut-based school lunches for two months. In 2009, 2000 kids from 22 rural schools are participating in the program. As a result of this program, the Guatemalan Ministry of the Environment financed the planting of 250,000 new Maya Nut seedlings in the region. These seedlings will one day provide over 3 million pounds of food per year for these communities, representing a long term solution to problems of malnutrition and food insecurity in the region, in addition to the environmental services they provide (protection of soils and watersheds, biodiversity, mitigation of climate change...)
- Objective 1development, social development
- Objective 2biodiversity conservation
- Objective 3climate
- Deforestation driversillegal logging, industrial agriculture or cattle ranching, industrial wood exploitation
- Type of forestdry|humid
- Project activityARR|IFM
- Project TypeARR
- Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activityagroforestry, ecosystem restoration
- Multiple locations?No
- Jurisdiction level 1Department : Peten
- Jurisdiction level 2Municipality : Sayaxché
Carbon accounting
- Crediting periodND
- Period to calculate annual carbon credits
- Annual carbon credits
- Total carbon credits1000
- Leakage is expected?ND
- Carbon pools includedND
- Gasses includedND
- Reference period start yearND
- Reference period end yearND
- Carbon standard 1internal
Carbon certification
- Carbon standard 1 Progresscertified
- Carbon standard 1 Publication dateND
- Carbon standard 1 WeblinksND
- Carbon standard 1 Expiry dateND
- Carbon standard 2none
- Carbon standard 2 ProgressND
- Carbon standard 2 Publication dateND
- Carbon standard 2 WeblinksND
- Carbon standard 2 Expiry dateND
- Carbon standard 3none
- Carbon standard 3 ProgressND
- Carbon standard 3 Publication dateND
- Carbon standard 3 WeblinksND
- Carbon standard 3 Expiry dateND
- Source of informationhttps://mayanutinstitute.org/programs/reforestation/; Accessed June 2023 http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/project/healthy-kids-healthy-forests; Not accessible in Sep 2022
Community level intervention
- Any monetary benefits?ND
- Monetary benefit typeND
- Monetary benefit detailND
- Provides employment?Yes
- Are there non-cash benefits?Yes
- Economic activities - typeagroforestry | processing and commercialization
- Is there tenure clarification?ND
- Is there environmental education?ND
- Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?ND
- Is there forest enhancement?ND
- Is there community infrastracture improvement?No
- Is there other community benefits?Yes