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$10
raises 200 saplings at a local community nursery Ø
$20
will provide 400 free tree saplings to a local farmer
Ø
$50
shall plant a hectare of forest on a local farmer’s land Ø
$100
will provide 2,000 free saplings for two hectares |
Most of
Out of 112
districts in the country, our current 2 target districts (Kamuli and Buyende)
are among “the leading 10 producers of charcoal that is taken to
To abate the status quo, Organic Perspectives is working toward
setting up a threshold of 40 community-run tree nurseries, each producing at
least 25,000 trees per season (twice a year) as to plant 2,000,000 trees per
year in the deforested remote areas of Kamuli and Buyende
districts.
To ensure a sustained regeneration of the trees being planted, and
to keep within our goal of up to “2 Million Trees per Year”, we are embracing an
approach of ‘Social Forestry’ with a purpose that’s
twofold:
1)
Capitalizing
on community-managed forestry activities to leverage project
scaling/expansion
2)
Giving local
farmers a sense of ownership and an increased role in the management of their
community forests
Each nursery is being managed by a local community "Project
Extension Group" (PEG). Establishing our PEGs is typically simple as we form
them from pre-existing ‘Parish Farmer Groups’ under the ‘National Agriculture
Advisory Services’ (NAADS) or from other Women/Youth Groups. Each sub county has
8 – 12 such pre-existing farmers’ groups and they are usually unified by a
Sub-County Farmer Forum (SFF), whose leadership is our starting point in
identifying and setting up village-level PEGs.
The PEGs host tree nurseries and provide labor at the sites; give
out saplings and provide all our agroforestry extension activities to fellow
farmers in the immediate neighborhoods. Click here to
see how we are doing it [video captured at a community site for one of our
PEGs, June 2012].
As of June
2012, we have held local meetings with SFFs in 3 Sub Counties, identifying and
orientating 31 PEGs. Two of them are now having their community nurseries
operational (as seen in video above).
Relatively,
it costs us $1,250 in administrative costs and capacity building for each
community site that is able to produce at least 25,000 trees per season. Our
challenge is to get 40 PEGs operational, so we can reach our goal of up to two
million trees (2,000 Hectares) per year. Read our June
2012 E-news bulletin for more information on what the organizational
set-up, training and capacity building for our PEGs
involves.
The
project will enable local farmers to restore forests and replenish their
degraded soils—and as such promote food security—using fast-growing
nitrogen-fixing trees. To learn more
about how the forestry project is alleviating the socio-economic and
environmental difficulties facing our target rural farmers, please go to our
activities page.
Your support
here is highly welcome; every $1 plants 20 trees!
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