I first planted trees on my coffee farm over 20 years ago with the help of an agroforestry project run by an NGO. It seemed like a good idea, planting trees to take care of the environment. Out of 42 other families, I’m the only one who has kept them. The trees on my farm support a great deal of wildlife, you can’t compare it to a monoculture. We don’t get paid a higher price for the coffee, no matter how beneficial our farming practices, so the other farmers cut their trees down again. Curu is changing this, by helping us turn the monoculture into agroforest, while paying a fair price for our beans. They’re the only ones pushing to do this properly, so the trees stay.