Projects
Food Security along the Humaitá River
In partnership with Associação Jiboiana
Restoring health, dignity, and self-sufficiency to 640 Huni Kuin people through sustainable farming, fishing, and reforestation.
The Crisis
The Huni Kuin people in the six villages along Brazil's Humaitá River—are facing a food security crisis. Climate change has disrupted traditional hunting and fishing. River pollution has contaminated their water.
Government-supplied processed foods have replaced fresh, traditional diets—creating epidemic malnutrition in children and chronic diseases in adults.
The Huni Kuin have lost their ancestral food sovereignty and become dependent on failing external systems.
The Solution
In partnership with Associação Jiboiana, we're launching a community-led initiative to restore food sovereignty through sustainable infrastructure including:
Community Gardens & Agroforestry systems: Community nurseries, seedling production, planting campaigns
Sustainable Protein Production: Fish ponds and poultry farming
Food Processing facilities: Small scale fruit processing machines for traditional staples, such as açaí
Training and Education: Inter-village technical training and salaries for Indigenous agroforesty specialists
The Impact
Circular economy: Villages trade with each other instead of depending on distant, expensive cities
Indigenous autonomy: Restored self-sufficiency and sovereignty
Traditional knowledge: Preservation of ecological wisdom
Biodiversity protection: Reforestation and sustainable practices
Replicable model: A blueprint for vulnerable communities worldwide
2026 Initiatives
Thank you to the Willing Family for their generous donation for an artesian well in the village of Novo Futuro. For the first time, Txaná Tuwe and his family have access to fresh and safe drinking water.
Kayawei Earth currently sponsors the monthly production, planting and maintenance of fruit tree seedlings for the Novo Futuro village.
We are in the process of raising funds to build a fish pond for the village of Novo Future as a sustainable and reliable source of protein
