In 1997, Sustainable Harvest Initiative (SHI) was established to help smallholder farmers in Honduras transition from slash-and-burn agriculture to more sustainable agricultural practices. After expanding to Panama, Nicaragua and Belize, it has since helped 3,000 low-income, rural families adopt agroforestry and other agroecology practices on 12,000 hectares of land. This has improved the diet and livelihoods of local communities while also reversing soil degradation, preserving natural ecosystems and stabilizing the climate. Wishing to have a greater impact in the face of worsening environmental collapse, SHI aims to scale up and help one million farms transition to regenerative organic practices, reversing degradation on 3 million hectares of land and achieving food security for 5 million people by 2030.
SHI can contribute to the goals of Initiative 20x20 in various areas, such as building capacity at the project or national level and advising governments on successful restoration methodologies. Although SHI is seeking to refine its own monitoring systems, the organization can also offer assistance with the AKVO Flow system, paired comparisons, and ripple effect mapping.
Sustainable Harvest International looks forward to participating as a technical partner in Initiative 20x20 – not only to share 23+ years of technical experience with the various task forces, but also to further the Initiative's restoration goals.
In 1997, Sustainable Harvest Initiative (SHI) was established to help smallholder farmers in Honduras transition from slash-and-burn agriculture to more sustainable agricultural practices. After expanding to Panama, Nicaragua and Belize, it has since helped 3,000 low-income, rural families adopt agroforestry and other agroecology practices on 12,000 hectares of land. This has improved the diet and livelihoods of local communities while also reversing soil degradation, preserving natural ecosystems and stabilizing the climate. Wishing to have a greater impact in the face of worsening environmental collapse, SHI aims to scale up and help one million farms transition to regenerative organic practices, reversing degradation on 3 million hectares of land and achieving food security for 5 million people by 2030.
SHI can contribute to the goals of Initiative 20x20 in various areas, such as building capacity at the project or national level and advising governments on successful restoration methodologies. Although SHI is seeking to refine its own monitoring systems, the organization can also offer assistance with the AKVO Flow system, paired comparisons, and ripple effect mapping.
Sustainable Harvest International looks forward to participating as a technical partner in Initiative 20x20 – not only to share 23+ years of technical experience with the various task forces, but also to further the Initiative's restoration goals.
