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Forest Gardens - Simiyu Region

Forest Gardens - Simiyu Region, Tanzania

Our project employs a unique agroforestry approach that benefits local farmers and the environment. Monoculture and logging have degraded the land and left farmers reliant on a single source of income. So far, over 700 farmers are using the Forest Garden approach to rebuild food systems, improve livelihoods, and restore the environment. CO2 per species is rounded to 50kg, as this project is twinned with VCS credits.

338,030 Árboles financiados de 2,000,000
2,147,483.647 T CO2 compensado
1,406 Seguidores
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Elementos clave
Actividades del proyecto
Agroforestería
Agroforestry
The project is planting trees on agricultural land for multiple purposes, including the agricultural use of trees, combined with agricultural crops and/or livestock.
Beneficios medioambientales
Restauración del terreno
Land restoration
The project repairs degraded land back into a healthy and productive land.
Prevención de la deforestación
Avoid deforestation
The project sustainable forest management aids to stop deforestation and forest degradation.
Beneficios sociales
Seguridad alimentaria
Food security
Through a selection of tree species generating edible by-products (fruit, nuts, seeds, edible leafs) the project contributes to improving nutrition of local communities and help the region becoming more resilient to famine.
Reducción de la pobreza
Poverty Relief
The project creates employment opportunities for poor local communities and reduces exposure and vulnerability to extreme weather events.
Igualdad de género
Gender equality
The project aims to reduce inequality between women and men, empowering female farmers/workers.
Economía social
Social economy
The project places social welfare above profit; the aim is to enhance the community's quality of life, economically, socially, culturally and environmentally.
Concienciación medioambiental
Environmental awareness
The project cultivates environmental education for adults and/or children to raise environmental awareness.
Inclusión social
Social inclusion
The project promotes initiatives for marginalized group’s social inclusion through education and training.
El equipo de plantación

Normas de Reducción de Gases de Efecto Invernadero

Tree-Nation Methodology
Este proyecto de reforestación está hermanado con un proyecto dedicado a regalar Créditos de CO2 certificados por los siguientes estándares:

VCS

CCB

REDD

Descripción del proyecto

This project implements the Forest Garden Approach (FGA). Through their 4-year training program, farmers plant thousands of trees that protect their land and bring nutrients back to the soil. 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.

Decades of unsustainable agriculture practices have resulted in degraded and unproductive land; nutrient-scarce food systems; and farming families who are unable to grow and sell enough to meet their most basic needs. Using the Forest Garden Approach in countries like Uganda, this project is proving that agroforestry is a solution to each of these challenges, effectively ending hunger and poverty while restoring the land and environment.

The Forest Garden provides farmers with diverse, nutritious crops that they can feed their families and sell on the market all year round. Forest Garden farmers increase their access to food and increase their income, even in the first year, all while improving the environment. This additional income allows the participating farmers to pay for their children's education and other necessary investments to improve their livelihood.

Tree Nation’s projects in Tanzania will help 600 farmers to plant over 2 million trees.

Forest Gardens are, on average, 1 acre in size. One farmer, or farming family, cares for each Forest Garden on their own land. 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”. In the third and fourth years, the remaining trees are strategically placed where it will best benefit the farmer’s Forest Garden. On average, a Forest Garden offsets 144.64 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per acre over 20 years.

By the end of the four-year program, farmers see an average 400% increase in income and more than a 500% increase in access to nutrition. Forest Gardens benefit both the farmer and the land, effectively breaking the cycle of land degradation, hunger, and poverty.

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