We pay farmers to plant trees at scale. Our model is comprised of three levels that eliminate poverty and alleviate climate change:
Impact Scale
Moving farmers and their households out of poverty. At our base level, farmers earn an income that immediately lifts their households out of poverty.
Stability Scale
Taking farmers and their households to wealth creation. At our optimal level, farmers earn enough income to stabilize their households in preparation for future planning.
Transformation Scale
Creating generational wealth for farmers and their households. At our transformational level, farmers move their households into wealth-building.
How We Do It
Our Approach: We contract farmers to plant trees in their farms and pay them for every tree planted for a period of eight years. Our farmers are clustered into groups of 100 under a Cluster Manager who monitors tree planting, oversees husbandry activities, and pays farmers. Farmers are guaranteed an income that moves their households out of poverty and towards wealth-building.
Why We Do It
Our Vision is to create an African continent where climate change and poverty are not a threat.
Our Mission is to increase forest cover in Africa while ensuring guaranteed basic income for Africa’s farmers.
Our Core Values
Inclusion
We seek to create a participatory economy where everybody is represented and shared value is promoted.
Empathy
We lead by learning, meet our farmers and partners where they are at, and value everyone’s contributions.
Fidelity
We are responsible citizens, good stewards of the natural world around us, and responsible caretakers of the value created by our community.
Why It Matters
Climate change endangers the future of planet earth. A leading cause of climate change has been destruction of natural forests for human settlement and production. Planting trees and developing new forests restores water catchment areas and reduces the effects of carbon emissions. However, tree planting and forest developments across the globe have been constrained by a lack of sustainable and scalable forest husbandry. On the other hand, hundreds of millions of the world’s poor still live below one dollar a day. With the glare of climate change, Africa’s poor are in danger of not being able to produce sustainably, earn a livelihood, and survive. This double tragedy of poverty and climate change is an existential threat to Africa’s poor.
