Trees Initiative
We are proud partners of Trees for the Future. As a result of our work together and the customers we serve, we have planted over 15,000 trees!
Trees Planted To Date
Where We Work
Through our partnership with Trees for the Future, our impact reaches across four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our focus is on the implementation of Forest Garden Programs in Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, and Tanzania, as these are areas where we are having the biggest impact and seeing amazing results.
The Problem
We lose trees at a rate of 50 soccer fields per minute as our food systems destroy our ecosystems. Most of this degradation occurs in the developing tropics of Africa, Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia where hundreds of millions of chronically-hungry, smallholder farming families use destructive and short-sighted agricultural practices that further degrade their communities trees, soil, water and biodiversity, making them even more likely to migrate and more vulnerable to the climate changes that lie ahead.
The Solution
The Forest Garden Program is a simple, replicable and scalable approach with proven success. By planting specific types of fast-growing trees, fruit trees, hardwoods and food crops in a systematic manner over a four-year period, families can positively change their lives forever. Forest Gardens consist of thousands of trees that provide families with sustainable food sources, livestock feed, products to sell, fuel wood and a 400% increase in their annual income in four years.
