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Meet the EcoAraguaia: Camp Farm of the Future!
\n<\/b>EcoAraguaia Farm of the Future is a former cattle ranch in the Amazon rainforest with a big mission: to show the world how producing food, restoring nature, and creating livelihoods can go hand in hand. The key to all of this? Regenerative agriculture: a holistic system for managing the land that integrates\u00a0people, planet, and profit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Where three biomes meet
\n<\/strong>EcoAraguaia Farm of the Future is located in Caseara, on the border of the Brazilian provinces of Tocantins and Par\u00e1, in the middle of the 2,600 km long\u00a0Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor<\/a>\u00a0along the river of the same name. The Farm is situated at the intersection of three biomes: the Cerrado (savanna), Pantanal (tropical wetland), and of course the Amazon rainforest. These climatic conditions create an incredibly lush environment teeming with flora and fauna.<\/p>\n

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The Araguaia River is the center of a vast biodiversity corridor, giving life to many thousands of tropical species of plants and animals in the heart of the Amazon.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From degrading to regenerative agriculture
\n<\/strong>Unfortunately, this magnificent region of the world has suffered decades of deforestation and soil degradation, largely as a result of traditional soy and cattle farming practices. To this day, as in the rest of the world, many people in the area are stuck in conventional ways of farming that are slowly but surely eroding the natural systems essential for their survival.<\/p>\n

The Tiezzi family, owners of a 500 hectare cattle ranch in the region, decided in 2017 that it was time to move away from the traditional model of cattle farming that had been the foundation of their family business for many years…<\/p>\n

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