Protect
Care for forests, springs and soils, and gradually expand protected areas.
A responsibility across generations
What if we could leave the Earth more alive than we found it?
We inherit an Earth shaped by those who came before us. It is now our turn to choose what we will pass on. Pachatopia turns this responsibility into concrete action: protecting life, regenerating territories, creating dignified jobs and strengthening the conditions for peace.
Since 2017a vision taking root
≈ 250 haof living territory
≈ 210 hadedicated to the reserve
What your support makes possible
Concrete actions, visible on the ground.
In San Carlos, Antioquia, Colombia, we aim to protect more forest, transform our farming practices and create more stable local jobs.
Regenerate
Support around 40 hectares in their transition towards agroforestry: mainly coffee, alongside cacao, food crops and some pasture.
Sustain livelihoods
Support everyday work on the land and create more dignified, stable jobs for local people.
The areas shown are estimates. Precise measurements by a land surveyor are still to be carried out.
A simple choice
How would you like to take part?
An immediate gesture
Give once
A donation of your choice to help meet current needs on the ground.
Make a donation Donate on HelloAssoA lasting connection
Become a Companion
Join the association as a member and become part of the Pachatopia community.
Being a Companion means sharing bread and nurturing the fruits of a common endeavour. It means supporting a world where people care for life and where the Earth can sustainably nourish those who inhabit it.
Become a Companion Membership: €50 per year · HelloAssoOur regenerative conviction
Human beings can once again become a force for regeneration.
Not by seeking to dominate nature, but by learning again how to live with it. Regenerating the Earth also means regenerating our relationships, our economy and the way we pass things on. Planting a tree then becomes an act of peace, trust and hope.
Pachatopia regenerates the ecological, human, economic and cultural conditions of life so that peace can take root again.
Read our purpose
What if inhabiting the Earth became an art again?
In San Carlos, Colombia, we seek to give this a concrete form: caring for the land, growing with the living world and nurturing peace.
San Carlos, Antioquia — the landscape in which the mission takes root.On the ground right now
Harvesting coffee, caring for the plots
· Harvesting, clearing vegetation and caring for the ground around coffee plants in San Carlos.
Read the field journalBeyond a project
Building an international heritage institution in service of life.
Pachatopia is not limited to a farm, a harvest or a person. Our ambition is to build, protect and pass on a living heritage over the long term, between Colombia, France, Switzerland and every territory where this vision may take root.
Natural
Forests, water, soils, biodiversity and the natural capacity for regeneration.
Food-producing
Agroforestry crops, food autonomy and processing tools.
Human
Dignified jobs, trust, cooperation and lasting peace between people.
Knowledge
Knowledge, experiments, stories, methods and the memory of the territory.
Institutional
Governance, transparency and rules capable of protecting the mission over the long term.
One shared direction
Four responsibilities towards our living heritage.
We seek to act like an ecosystem: each function nourishes the others, and none can endure alone.
Protect
Preserve forests, springs, soils and the spaces where life can freely continue its work.
Regenerate
Reintroduce trees and biodiversity into crops, restore fertility and produce with the living world.
Pass on
Circulate knowledge, document learning and prepare future generations to care for the heritage they receive.
Connect
Reweave ties between the land, producers, citizens and territories once marked by conflict.
The living laboratory
A far-reaching vision tested in the real world.
In San Carlos, the team cares for crops, protects forest areas, prepares biological fertilisers, experiments with agroforestry systems and develops an economy that can support families without exhausting the land.
The territory bears the wounds of armed conflict, but also an immense capacity for resilience. Making peace with the Earth and sustaining peace between people are one and the same endeavour here.
Explore our work on the groundMaking regeneration visible
PachaFood and PachaForest: monitoring tools to develop.
Without dignified work, people may be forced to take ever more from the forest. Crops fund jobs and the transition. The forest provides the water, fertility, microorganisms and balance that make these crops possible.
PachaFood
Tracking the agroforestry transition.
We want to develop an application to track crops and their transition to agroforestry. Its development still needs funding. In the meantime, you can support work on the ground with a donation of your choice.
Make a donationPachaForest
Tracking nature reserves.
We want to develop an application to track our nature reserves and conservation work. Its development still needs funding. In the meantime, you can support the territory with a donation of your choice.
Make a donationMemory and transmission
Honour yesterday. Act today. Make tomorrow possible.
Preserving a living heritage means thinking of the generations to come without forgetting those who came before us. We honour the memory of those who defended freedom, endured war or exile, and rebuilt a life for their children. Honouring their memory does not mean prolonging conflicts: it means building a world in which fewer people are forced to experience violence.
“We inherited freedom. It is now our turn to protect life.”Discover our horizon for transmission
Our story
A question, a land, and then thousands of small steps.
Pachatopia was not born from a perfectly established plan. It grew from encounters, plots of land, trees, producers, volunteers, mistakes and lessons learned. Little by little, a farm became a living laboratory, then the beginning of an institution to be passed on.
Discover the journey so far
Documented need · COP 20,000,000 per month · about €5,500