Participating Partners:

Essential Oil Producers

CoopeSiuna is a rural enterprise of 90 families surrounding the town of Siuna in Nicaragua. These producers/farmers have created a company to sustainably harvest and process allspice and other forest products from their parcels using biofuels to produce high-value essential oils for direct export. Located in the buffer zone of the BOSWAS Biosphere Reserve, the largest remaining forest in Central America, CoopeSiuna is developing a new model of agro-forestry to provide additional revenue—allowing the cooperative to break from subsistence farming and the slash and burn agriculture that is consuming the buffer zone and threatening the Reserve.

Members of CoopeSiuna have developed mixed productive systems of allspice, citrus trees, cocoa, banana, and other trees, along with lemon grass, vetiver, and ginger. The mixed productive systems established by members of the cooperative represents their share, or investment, in the distillation company that processes the raw product using steam distillation at their off-grid processing center in the heart of the buffer zone.

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