Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Goal 12: Ensure Sustainable consumption and productive patterns Trees for the Future’s work in agroforestry meets nine out of seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Trees for the Future works with The Great Green Wall in Senegal and Mali, supporting their initiative to bring life back to Africa’s degraded landscapes whilst providing food security, jobs and security for families throughout the Sub-Saharan region. In Gambia, TREES works with Gambia Rising to provide access to education and water, as well as income and nutrition opportunities through the Forest Garden Approach. In 2019, they partnered with the Kenya Scout Association (KSA) to contribute to Kenya’s 2030 Vision to restore 10% of Kenya’s tree cover, by developing tree nurseries at schools. Trees for the Future works closely with Futures Agribusiness (FAGRIB) in Chad and Cameroon to teach farmers the Forest Garden Approach. On average, a Forest Garden offsets 144.64 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2) per acre over 20 years. In the third and fourth years, the remaining trees are strategically placed where it will best benefit the farmer’s Forest Garden. The average Forest Garden has 2,500 trees, most of which are planted in the first or second year along the Forest Garden’s perimeter, which Trees for the Future calls the “Living Fence”. One farmer, or farming family, cares for each Forest Garden on their own land.
įorest Gardens are, on average, 1 acre in size. Forest Garden farmers increase their access to food and increase their income, even in the first year, all while improving the environment.
The Forest Garden is a haven for farmers, providing them with diverse, nutritious crops that they can feed their families and sell on the market all year round. Farmers are taught to plant trees in a way that optimizes land use, eliminates the need for chemical pesticides and fertilizers, and reserves water and sequesters carbon, what they call the Forest Garden. Through their 4-year training program, farmers plant thousands of trees that protect the land and bring nutrients back to the soil. The Forest Garden Program is a simple, replicable, and scalable approach with proven success. Replication – Once farmers go through our Forest Garden program, they can “Plant it Forward” and train neighboring farmers in a condensed version of the program. There are typically between 150 – 300 farmers in these projects.Ĭollaboration – Trees for the Future works with local organizations and community groups who are already doing great work in the region but could benefit from agroforestry training. Įxpansion – Through their Forest Garden Training Program, TREES staff work with farmer groups to establish Forest Gardens over a four-year period. Trees for the Future divides their work into three categories: Expansion, Collaboration and Replication. Their headquarters is based in Silver Spring, Maryland.
They work in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad and Gambia through their collaborative partnerships. They have offices and dedicated staff in Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Uganda and Tanzania. Trees for the Future currently works with thousands of farming families in nine countries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2014, they focused their work on select African countries, where the climatic and economic challenges were the most pressing, and they felt they could make the greatest impact. Over their 30+ year history, they have worked in more than 50 countries around the world, in Haiti, Latin America, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Trees for the Future is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to end poverty and hunger by training farmers in regenerative agriculture- through what they call the Forest Garden Approach.
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