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Thousands of farmers have been persuaded to join the innovative project and to plant biodiverse forest gardens that feed their families, protect the soil, and expand tree cover. Since 2015, Trees for the Future (TREES) has planted tens of millions of trees each year in nine countries ranging from Senegal and Mali to Tanzania and Kenya. In a continent where many areas have already degraded into semi-barren drylands, initiatives like TREES are playing an important role in reversing decades of ecosystem degradation, pushing back desertification, increasing climate resilience, and at the same time improving the well-being of the local communities. Individual plots, which cover 1 hectare on average, are said to have about 5,800 trees of multiple varieties:😲 ‘On the outer perimeter there is a “protective wall” made up of three ranks of Acacia polyacantha (white thorn). Behind this is a cluster of tightly-spaced agroforestry trees that grow quickly and can be used for firewood and fodder. In the center is a mix of vegetable gardens and orchards of mangoes, avocados, oranges, apples and other fruits.’ This is a massive restoration using regenerative agriculture. Farmers can learn the technic from TREES to produce thriving farmlands while providing sufficient nutrition for their families. It’s self-sustaining. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/seven-times-size-of-manhattan-the-african-tree-planting-project-making-a-difference
Seven times size of Manhattan: the African tree-planting project making a difference
Thousands of farmers have been persuaded by TREES scheme to replace barren monocultures with biodiverse forest gardens
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/seven-times-size-of-manhattan-the-african-tree-planting-project-making-a-difference
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winnie nguru
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Since it was founded in 2015, the programme has planted tens of millions of trees each year in nine different countries ranging from Senegal and Mali to Tanzania and Kenya. In less than 10 years, it has reportedly restored a combined area of more than 41,000 hectares, which is about seven times the size of Manhattan. This includes part of the African Union’s Great Green Wall initiative, a planned 8,000km-wide barrier of vegetation to hold back the deserts that are encroaching across the Sahel region. Organizers say this will be the largest natural structure on the planet, though it is still very much a work in progress. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/13/seven-times-size-of-manhattan-the-african-tree-planting-project-making-a-difference
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When I was 13 years old I won an international science award for presenting the topic of pumpkin production in the laboratory and in the field in an ecological way aiming at sustainability and I was praised by my grandfather Waldimiro de Souza: "This is my grandson João Caetano Horta. He draws attention to sustainability policy in Brazil. He has already planted more than 3 thousand trees since he was 3 years old. Ipe, Sucupira, Mogno, Caju and several others in Aguas Lindas on the other's farm grandfather. Today in Havana he surprises his generation by calling them for the example that water is the basis for bringing healthy food to humanity. In an international audience he wins the Scientific Day of his school together with two other schools. Milton Santos Already did this at your age. Brazil awakens to a new concept of citizenship". Words from my grandfather Waldimiro de Souza Now a new opportunity has arisen, only this time here in Brazil!! As a descendant of Dom Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, who was also King Dom Pedro IV of Portugal, I consider it an honor to be part of Brazil's national science seminar with the theme Agrocerratense Systems, a new possibility for the future. I hope it will be a beautiful journey of research into a form of sustainable agriculture that values the Cerrado, which is our biome here in the capital of Brazil.
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I've loved plants since I was a child and I loved learning about this group's existence!! I love planting trees and I'm available. I count on the support of everyone who thinks about planting more trees around the world!! Att.
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Sarah Chabane
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Trees for the Future (TREES) has been named one of seven UN World Restoration Flagships for its work in empowering African farmers to combat environmental degradation. Congratulations! 💚 Spanning from Senegal to Tanzania, TREES has partnered with hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers, guiding them in the adoption of regenerative agroforestry practices. By embracing the Forest Garden Approach, these farmers have not only revitalized degraded lands but also cultivated sustainable livelihoods. The impact is palpable, with success stories echoing from Kenya to Mali. Paul Magna, a beneficiary of TREES in Kenya, shares his newfound joy: "My life has changed. Birds are chirping, my children are laughing, life is everywhere." Through the initiative's efforts, over 41,000 hectares of land have been restored since 2014, equivalent to the size of Dodoma, Tanzania's capital. With support from the UN Environment Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization, TREES aims to expand its impact, restoring hundreds of thousands of hectares of drylands by 2030 and creating 230,000 jobs across five African countries. This recognition by the UN shows the vital role of grassroots initiatives in achieving global restoration goals. https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/initiative-engaging-farmers-transform-land-across-africa-recognized-one-seven-un-world-restoration
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dickson mutai
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David Abach's Forest Garden is a game-changer. In 2020, he joined Trees for the Future's Forest Garden Training Program, dedicating half a hectare of his Kenyan farm to this transformative initiative. Under local Trees for the Future (TREES) guidance, he rapidly embraced the sustainable agroforestry Forest Garden Approach. Today, his farm has evolved remarkably. David no longer limits himself to maize and beans; he now enjoys the benefits of Cajanus trees and a variety of vegetables for sustenance. His Forest Garden employs various agroforestry techniques, such as nitrogen-boosting Cajanus alley cropping and the establishment of a living fence serving multiple purposes, including soil enrichment and wind protection. Over three years, David's tree count skyrocketed from 12 to over 3,300, creating a microclimate that shields crops from excessive dryness during the harsh dry seasons. Furthermore, these trees will soon become an additional source of income for David through carbon credit sales, thanks to TREES' partnership with Aspiration. The stark contrast between his Forest Garden and traditional farming methods outside is evident in soil quality and crop health. The Forest Garden, enriched with compost, thrives, providing David with an abundance of vegetables, enabling him to allocate savings for other essentials like meat, fish, and his children's education. With just one year left in the TREES training program, 38-year-old David is on track for long-term success. His Forest Garden's positive impact on both his livelihood and the environment promises to extend for generations. https://trees.org/2023/08/01/david-abach/
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Patrick Kiash
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Am here to say, thank you trees for future for recognizing Africa day, that happened yesterday on 25th May 2023. truly our Africa is made of people, different cultures, and potentials of our African people currently and for the future of Africa. Its great to note on the beginning of the month of March, We Don't Have Time- Kenya chapter we joined your great activity that's happening in some areas of Kenya highlands, central Kenya, Kiambu county where your team is doing tremendous work to educate Kenyans farmers and public visitors to your tent to learn more that can better their future beyond today. Our team learned a lot from you, and we urge you to continue with great work you are doing to Kenya and several countries in Africa too. Yes! Through collaboration, we can achieve more and be of great help to many people in the Africa and world in general. Keep up great work you are doing that will benefit many in many ways! Trees for the Future continue (TREES) trains for farmers in agroforestry and sustainable land use—so that the farmers can build vibrant regional economies, thriving food systems, and a healthier planet and that will be a win for Africa and communities around. Read more of their info here-:) https://trees.org/
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Lesser known crusader like Dr Youssef of Lebanon has already planted 100000 Cedar trees under difficult circumstances of civil war. God bless him Damodar
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Trees for the Future
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Lasting, sustainable change is growing on farms in some of the most challenging climates on the planet. Trees for the Future (TREES) is not just a tree planting organization. It takes the initiative to a whole different level by breaking many negative cycles at once. https://youtu.be/It4F2X-0K8k TREES works with farmers across sub-Saharan Africa where high temperatures and extreme weather events are becoming more common every year. Despite the challenges, farmers see real change taking shape thanks to a regenerative agroforestry technique called the Forest Garden Approach. With training from TREES, farmers are learning to restore their degraded farmland and are gaining the tools and knowledge they need to mitigate the effects of climate change. Change is growing in the soil under our feet, and we can see it taking shape in the towering tree canopies overhead. These are just eight ways change is growing for Forest Garden farmers: 1 – A Relationship with Trees The average Forest Garden is home to 2,500+ trees. Those trees survive to maturity and thrive for years because the farmer depends on them to protect her land, provide resources, and feed her family. 2 – Healthier Soil Our healthy soils are disappearing all over the world. But Forest Garden farmers are rebuilding their soil with nature-based solutions like agroforestry and compost. 3 – The Return of Biodiversity Forest Gardens are biodiversity hotspots. As farmers plant more trees and native species, birds, insects, and beneficial micro-organisms all return to the land in full force. 4 – Capturing and Storing Carbon Healthy landscapes are our oldest, most reliable carbon sinks. In the global effort to reach zero emissions, Forest Garden farmers are capturing and storing an average of 62.8 metric tons of carbon in 20 years. Learn more about TREES’ newest carbon project. 5 – Improved Health for the Entire Family A Forest Garden’s diversity benefits the planet, but it also improves nutrition and food access for the whole family. With more nutrient-packed foods growing year-round, farming families enjoy a well-balanced diet and are able to meet global targets for food security within two to three years of joining the program. 6 – A Reliable Income Week After Week Instead of growing just one crop like corn or sorghum, farmers grow dozens of crops in their Forest Gardens. So instead of one payday, they experience dozens of paydays. After establishing their Forest Gardens, farmers can afford things like education for their kids and healthcare for the family. Plus, they can save for the future. 7 – A Better Future for Women and Girls TREES requires each project to be made up of 30% women participants. Women are becoming leaders in their communities, paving the way for more women in farming, business, and climate change mitigation. At the same time, parents who join the program can afford to send their daughters to school and university, ensuring that girls and young women have access to life-changing education. 8 – Lasting Change for the Next Generation The change growing in each Forest Garden extends far beyond the garden itself. With each farmer trained, every tree planted, and each happy, healthy family, lasting change is growing for the future of our planet and everyone on it. We break the cycles of hunger, poverty, and climate change by working together to advance lasting solutions. Join the fight, donate today.
Trees for the Future
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Awara Sleep, maker of natural mattresses, beds and bedding, has been partnering with us here at Trees for the Future for 2 years now, and with their recent donation has passed the 190k tree mark. Let's show them some love for helping us to fight climate change, hunger, poverty, and land degradation! https://www.awarasleep.com/
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Trees for the Future
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Trees for the Future recently announced our first ever VCU project, which will see 15,000 farmers planting 87 million trees! This announcement was then picked up by the UN, who is running it on the front page of their Environmental Programs! https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/stories/historic-carbon-deal-signed-aspiration
Historic Carbon Deal Signed with Aspiration
Ecosystem restoration generates tangible benefits for food and water security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and can prevent conflict and migration triggered by environmental degradation.
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Trees for the Future
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We’re celebrating 300 million trees planted... 300 million trees made possible by partners like you! Since our founding in 1989, farmers have planted 300 million trees in agroforestry systems and Forest Gardens around the world. Our work is impactful and sustainable because we work with farmers in regions that need it most. Help us plant the next 300 million by joining us at trees. org ! https://trees.org/ Thank you!
Elkana Chirure
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Land fragmentation has brought about clearance of vegetation, "trees", int the name of settlement and farming. Most of the departments have tried to raise the flag in the same but implementations of rules are penalties should be done to save the future. It will be good if we leave this planet in good conditions that the way it is.
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hammeken-cellars_we-have-already-planted-350000-trees-activity-7020709777936658432-XQIr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Thank you, Hammeken Cellars, for your commitment to fighting malnutrition, poverty, and climate change with us here at Trees for the Future!
Hammeken Cellars on LinkedIn: We have already planted 350,000 trees. 💚
We already have 350,000 trees planted. 🌳🌳 This is a very exciting time for all of us at #HammekenCellars. Just a year ago we had 50.000 trees in Africa. And…
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Patrick Kiash
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It's pleasing to see one of our climate dialogue partners @Trees.org have planted one hundred trees for every climate review written in @wedonthavetime. It's very encouraging and great to note every review counts and it means a lot to our planet. I know Trees.org plants and grows trees especially here Africa, which helps a lot of farmers and our environment too. So keep up the good work and all efforts of making our planet a better place! Salutations to all! Let me remind you 5 Reasons Trees are AWESOME! 🌳 Trees have a vast and intelligent underground network of communication. 🌲 Forests have “hubs” or “mother trees” 🌧 Trees literally make it rain by assisting the water cycle 🍃 Tree stumps are still alive and connected underground after a tree is cut down 🐵 Trees are the anchors of terrestrial life There's no connection like the one we have with nature. 🌳 We are not a race, we are a species. We are animals. We are mammals. We are a product of nature. We belong to it and we are a part of it.. When we Plant trees we Plant hope.
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Patrick Kiash
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Just to wish you a happy world #EnvironmentDay. Two days ago wedonthavetime Africa-Kenya chapter Team members we planted 21 trees to mark the year Africa got it's WDHT Africa headquarters. Today to mark world Environment day we are traveling many kilometers,ups and down,hills and varies with our team to preach and outreach to many for this important gospel to over 250 college's students in Meru Kenya, and later we plant more trees for the betterment of our mother nature,truelly let's all unite and together we be the needed solution through the power of many! Join us and be counted via www.wedonthavetime.org.
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We run a relatively new social enterprise called Fairways Green Markets Limited in Kenya whose vision is to connect farmers to consumer markets and help bridge the poverty gap among smallholder farmer communities through Sustainable and Organic farming. Our focus location has been western region with our station being at Ahero, Boya in Kisumu county. In our efforts to support farmers we realised that farmers struggle to find water due to the dwindling water levels of the rivers and with the biggest river in the region being Nyando, the river banks have suffered soil erosion as a result of reduced tree cover. Most trees have gone down the drain because of charcoal burning and firewood. Some of the farmers in their effort to preserve soil around their own land have ended up planting water consuming trees like eucalyptus which is more detrimental to the water as it is to crops since eucalyptus does not support agroforestry. Therefore our activities to support farmers may not be successful if this situation is not corrected as soon as possible. I believe it is our role as a social enterprise to fill this gap and coordinate efforts with other like minded individuals and organizations to correct the mess going on before we completely lose our rivers and soil with it. It is in the light of this that am seeking for a donation of 1.8 million tree seedlings to plant along River Nyando in Kisumu county. These seedlings will be distributed to farmers with farms along the river starting from Muhoroni-Chemelil all the way to Ahero. To ensure that these trees survive, we are giving the community an incentive that after every 5-10 year cycle, they will earn carbon credits on their farms. These carbon credits are going to be calculated and awarded on an annual basis but we will create a fund together with CPF and our carbon credit partners ConserWater to save the money to be distributed to the farmers after the period. This will ensure that all trees are taken care of and are allowed to grow to maturity. We will also train the community on alternative fuel sources like bio gas, briquet etc that can be made through sugarcane, rice and maize stock biomass wastes that are normally left to rot in the farms. Some of the trees species that support agro-forestry and are not heavy water consumers we are looking for include: Grevillea robusta Sesbania sesban Croton megalocarpus (Mukinduri) Markhamia lutea (Zusiala) Markhamia lutea (Siala) Calliandra calothyrsus Gliricidia sepium (Mother of cocoa) Leucaena leucocephala (Lusina) Prosopis chilensis (Algaroba) Melia volkensii (Mkau) Tamarindus indica (Mkwaju) I do believe that we can make a great impact in the lives of our farmers even as we protect our environment and natural resources. Just to confirm that we are working closely with a community organization known as St. Barnabas Community Development Center which has about 300 families of smallholder farmers and Green Zone Agencies which has over 1200 smallholder farmers and through these networks sustainability of the trees can be guaranteed plus our carbon Credits program that can be locked for a number of years to act as incentive for keeping the trees. We intend to tie these to carbon credits so that they are encouraged to keep the trees for at least 20 years without cutting them down for charcoal etc. In order to do this, we will need to establish a joint carbon fund with our partners where annual carbon credit awards are kept for five years and only released after every five years. This will ensure that: 1) farmers take care of their trees and ensure maturity 2) carbon credit cash accumulate to a substantial amount which can be used for bigger projects to uplift a family's fortune and move them out of poverty. 3) The cash payout will be significant enough in order to influence behavior change in other members of the community to embrace tree planting and eventually we will have played a major role in conserving the environment for the future generations. A project to plant trees and raise tree seedlings through nurseries is starting with partnerships from well meaning and visionary organizations in Boya, Chemelil and Rabuor areas to enable efficient delivery of seedlings to communities and schools along the rivers feeding Nyando river which is the only source of Lake Victoria, the largest fresh water lake in the region. We believe that through the Total Kenya Eco Challenge and other like minded partnerships, we will be able to achieve and exceed this goal. Together one step at a time we can change the world for greener better place even as we start bigger and better after Covid-19. Thanks and kind regards, Hesborn Ongudi Founder and CEO Organic Farmers Integrated Agribusiness Hub for Africa Fairways Green Markets Limited MOBILE:+254 735-402 744 or +254 777-402 744
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