Rainforest Alliance

Located in the rural Bushenyi District of Southwestern Uganda, the project is expected to sequester over 50,000 tCO2 during its 20 year lifetime and provide significant benefits to the smallholder farmer community, local wildlife and ecosystems. The district is currently a patchwork of subsistence agricultural lands where farmers plant banana, corn, coffee, sugar cane, sweet potatoes and other crops. The "Trees for Global Benefit" project will allow the region to recover some of its native highland tropical vegetation: the 138 farm plots involved in the Plan Vivo program cover 258 hectares planted with native and naturalized trees, ranging from one to five years of age. The project's focus on agroforestry systems and small-scale plantations will help local farmers increase and diversify their incomes, provide them with access to fuel wood and basic building materials and reduce the deforestation pressures on nearby forests.