Trees For Climate and Communities
HELPING PEOPLE AND PLANET
YOGO has planted over 30,000 'forest garden' trees through our "one for one" Food Trees program.
For every product you purchase, Yogo donates a food-bearing tree plus five years of agroforestry training to a low-income family in Africa.
This provides multiple benefits to the families and planet: income, agriculture training, food, and education.
Deforestation sometimes has roots in poverty, so we're keen to support tree programs that address the social picture as well as sinking carbon.
ONE TREE PLANTED PER PRODUCT
Our partner NGO Trees for the Future has completed 32 years of community forestry and is currently working alongside local staff in African countries Cameroon, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, and Tanzania. They work to ensure that each family can independently and permanently feed themselves and enrich the earth.
The long-term programs address poverty by equipping farmers to:
- produce food
- restore the environment
- create goods for sale
- empower women and children
- create long-term income
- sustainably manage the land
WHY "FOOD TREES"?
Food trees are amazing! “Forest gardens” are mixed systems starting with trees which provide shade for the other food-bearing plants. Special combinations assist each other to boost yields, restore soil, revitalize degraded land, and produce a complete set of nutrition instead of 'uni-crops'.
This approach provides a long-term independent solution for African families, instead of "air dropping" aid, or "spray-and-pray" seedling plantings.
ENVIRONMENTAL UPSIDES!
Each tree can be expected to sequester about one ton of carbon as well as restoring soil and improving watersheds. In a rainforest setting, agroforestry systems can also reduce slash-and-burn agriculture; in the arid degraded settings where our program works, we are mostly restoring barren land and restoring them to life.
WHEN YOU PLANT TREES, YOU ALSO: |
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empower women restore biodiversity help families feed themselves provide permanent employment create educational opportunities for children permanently increase the income of farmers |
avoid deforestation build strong communities create fodder to feed livestock reverse environmental degradation remove tons of carbon from the atmosphere provide fuel so villagers don’t need to cut down trees |
