Fundación Senderos is a local NGO based in La Mucuy, Mérida, Venezuela, working to develop resilient rural communities through nature-based solutions, including regenerative agriculture, bioconstruction, and biochar production. The organization promotes regenerative culture through agrifood-focused solutions rooted in the local community. Its work has benefited rural schools and farmers through biomass management strategies and a local bioeconomy approach. Its community headquarters, Casa La Lumbre, was inaugurated in 2022 as a center for applied learning and experimentation in sustainable rural habitat, low-carbon construction, permaculture, and environmental sanitation. In 2025, the NGO inaugurated the ‘Biofábrica,’ a community-scale facility designed to transform agricultural and forestry residues into Biochar-Based Fertilizers (BBF) for coffee farms, while also serving as an operational, educational, and demonstrative hub for regeneration and dMRV implementation
The International Biochar Initiative provides the global collective voice to catalyze the momentum behind biochar. Through biochar, the organization is fostering a future where communities thrive, industries innovate, and ecosystems regenerate. The organization focuses on catalyzing biochar's global impact for climate, environment, and communities.
Project story
Planting Forests and Food with Ten Schools of the Mérida–La Mucuy Ecological Corridor is an annual environmental education and regenerative landscaping program connecting ten rural schools with their communities and local organizations. The initiative operates flexibly beyond the school calendar to ensure continuity throughout the year, including vacation periods. The program will implement at least ten tree-planting and ecological restoration activities across prioritized areas of the corridor, involving students, teachers, families, and youth volunteers mobilized with our ally ApamateFest.
Through participatory design, permaculture principles, and hands-on learning facilitated by Regenera Club, the project promotes the establishment of edible forests as a strategy for local climate action, biodiversity restoration, and food resilience. The initiative also includes a livelihoods component focused on adults connected to participating schools, sharing practical experiences from Fundación Senderos' AgroBioEntrepreneurship model based on biochar production and local bioeconomy development through La Lumbre Homestead.
The program combines participatory diagnosis, educational implementation, cultural activations, and continuous documentation processes. Ecological, social, and educational outcomes will be publicly presented during Regenera Fest, a cultural and ecological gathering designed as a space for community exchange, accountability, and long-term support for the regenerative process of the corridor.
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Food forests in the Mérida-La Mucuy corridor with ten schools
Fundación Senderos is a local NGO based in La Mucuy, Mérida, Venezuela, working to develop resilient rural communities through nature-based solutions, including regenerative agriculture, bioconstruction, and biochar production. The organization promotes regenerative culture through agrifood-focused solutions rooted in the local community. Its work has benefited rural schools and farmers through biomass management strategies and a local bioeconomy approach. Its community headquarters, Casa La Lumbre, was inaugurated in 2022 as a center for applied learning and experimentation in sustainable rural habitat, low-carbon construction, permaculture, and environmental sanitation. In 2025, the NGO inaugurated the ‘Biofábrica,’ a community-scale facility designed to transform agricultural and forestry residues into Biochar-Based Fertilizers (BBF) for coffee farms, while also serving as an operational, educational, and demonstrative hub for regeneration and dMRV implementation
The International Biochar Initiative provides the global collective voice to catalyze the momentum behind biochar. Through biochar, the organization is fostering a future where communities thrive, industries innovate, and ecosystems regenerate. The organization focuses on catalyzing biochar's global impact for climate, environment, and communities.
Project story
Planting Forests and Food with Ten Schools of the Mérida–La Mucuy Ecological Corridor is an annual environmental education and regenerative landscaping program connecting ten rural schools with their communities and local organizations. The initiative operates flexibly beyond the school calendar to ensure continuity throughout the year, including vacation periods. The program will implement at least ten tree-planting and ecological restoration activities across prioritized areas of the corridor, involving students, teachers, families, and youth volunteers mobilized with our ally ApamateFest.
Through participatory design, permaculture principles, and hands-on learning facilitated by Regenera Club, the project promotes the establishment of edible forests as a strategy for local climate action, biodiversity restoration, and food resilience. The initiative also includes a livelihoods component focused on adults connected to participating schools, sharing practical experiences from Fundación Senderos' AgroBioEntrepreneurship model based on biochar production and local bioeconomy development through La Lumbre Homestead.
The program combines participatory diagnosis, educational implementation, cultural activations, and continuous documentation processes. Ecological, social, and educational outcomes will be publicly presented during Regenera Fest, a cultural and ecological gathering designed as a space for community exchange, accountability, and long-term support for the regenerative process of the corridor.
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Venezuela
Round 3
Jul 1-21, 2026
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