Committed to fighting climate change and wealth inequality, Ejido Verde is a Mexican sustainable pine resin company positioned to become a lead supplier in the $10 billion global pine chemicals market. The company's success relies on tapping into a historical trade relationship between Mexican industry and forest communities. Backed by over 10,000 investors from 78 countries, Ejido Verde provides rural and indigenous communities with zero-interest loans to plant and maintain new forests.
Ejido Verde uses an adaptive reforestation model to establish commercial agroforestry plantations to maximize long-term pine resin yields without harming trees. Its business model requires that the trees mature for nine years before they are tapped for pine resin and begin providing revenue.
Ejido Verde has now invested in 13 rural and indigenous communities in Michoacan and is growing its community investment portfolio. By forging relationships based on reciprocity, Ejido Verde ensures communities grow healthy forests to produce transformative wealth and holistic well-being. On average, every day the company:
- Plants 5,000 native trees to restore degraded indigenous land and provides a 10-year maintenance package to ensure that each tree thrives;
- Creates a living wage job in sustainable forestry for a local person;
- Removes 100 tons of carbon from the atmosphere, equivalent to the annual emissions of 5 people in the United States or 10 people in Mexico.
Our 4,200 hectares are now under management across 700 family farms, employing 1,700 people in 2018 alone. Ejido Verde aims to restore 12,000 hectares, an area two times the size of Manhattan, and support 3,000 family farms. The end goal is to help $1 billion flow into forest communities by 2030.
Ejido Verde welcomes assistance from the technical and financial partners of Initiative20x20 to match investors with the company's attractive and flexible investment opportunities.
Projects:
Helping indigenous smallholders become restoration entrepreneurs in Mexico
Country
Mexico
Committed to fighting climate change and wealth inequality, Ejido Verde is a Mexican sustainable pine resin company positioned to become a lead supplier in the $10 billion global pine chemicals market. The company's success relies on tapping into a historical trade relationship between Mexican industry and forest communities. Backed by over 10,000 investors from 78 countries, Ejido Verde provides rural and indigenous communities with zero-interest loans to plant and maintain new forests.
Ejido Verde uses an adaptive reforestation model to establish commercial agroforestry plantations to maximize long-term pine resin yields without harming trees. Its business model requires that the trees mature for nine years before they are tapped for pine resin and begin providing revenue.
Ejido Verde has now invested in 13 rural and indigenous communities in Michoacan and is growing its community investment portfolio. By forging relationships based on reciprocity, Ejido Verde ensures communities grow healthy forests to produce transformative wealth and holistic well-being. On average, every day the company:
- Plants 5,000 native trees to restore degraded indigenous land and provides a 10-year maintenance package to ensure that each tree thrives;
- Creates a living wage job in sustainable forestry for a local person;
- Removes 100 tons of carbon from the atmosphere, equivalent to the annual emissions of 5 people in the United States or 10 people in Mexico.
Our 4,200 hectares are now under management across 700 family farms, employing 1,700 people in 2018 alone. Ejido Verde aims to restore 12,000 hectares, an area two times the size of Manhattan, and support 3,000 family farms. The end goal is to help $1 billion flow into forest communities by 2030.
Ejido Verde welcomes assistance from the technical and financial partners of Initiative20x20 to match investors with the company's attractive and flexible investment opportunities.
Projects:
Helping indigenous smallholders become restoration entrepreneurs in Mexico
Country
Mexico
