The aim is to develop a long term sustainable foresty program to create a sustainble production of timber and firewood, thereby lowering the pressure on the existing natural forests in the middle part (coffee region) and the lower part of the Sierra Piura (cacao region). Besides the reforestation of the upper area the project will also increase tree density on coffee farms and reforest degraded agricultural land from the coffee producers with native and exotic tree species.

The Sierra Piura has had a high rate of deforestation due to agricultural expansion since the beginning of the last century. Deforestation is continuing, although to a lesser extent because of the lack of forests. It has caused local climate change, clean water scarsety, soil depletion, soil erosion, and a lack of income opportunities for the local farmers.