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Pioneering Sustainable
Agroforestry
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Regenerative Agroforestry
The Regenerative Agroforestry Landscapes (RAL) program promotes diversified, climate-smart land use systems in degraded rural landscapes, merging ecological restoration with smallholder livelihoods. RAL replaces monoculture degradation with biodiverse, tree-crop-livestock systems that build soil carbon, stabilize microclimates, and enhance food sovereignty.
Program Objectives
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Restore degraded agricultural lands through native tree integration, perennial crops, and soil regeneration practices.
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Strengthen household resilience and rural incomes through climate-smart agro-enterprises.
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Generate high-integrity carbon and biodiversity credits from agroforestry systems.
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Support policy reform and incentives for sustainable land tenure, agroecology, and carbon inclusion.
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Program Methodology
The Regenerative Agroforestry Landscapes initiative uses a systems-based approach to transform degraded rural lands into biodiverse, climate-resilient ecosystems. By integrating native trees with food and cash crops, it restores soil, enhances water retention, and sequesters carbon. The program promotes circular resource use and empowers smallholder farmers especially women and youth through cooperatives, training, and access to carbon markets. This model strengthens rural economies while delivering measurable ecological and climate benefits aligned with global SDG goals.
Ecological Design for Productivity and Resilience
The program promotes intercropped systems that integrate fruit, fodder, leguminous, and timber trees with staple crops to build productivity and ecological balance. These diversified plantings are supported by regenerative practices like mulching, biochar application, and cover cropping, which enhance soil carbon, improve water retention, and increase overall landscape resilience
Farmer Field Cooperatives
Through inclusive farmer field cooperatives, the initiative delivers hands-on training in agroecology, product diversification, and cooperative marketing. Women and youth are intentionally engaged in leadership roles and profit-sharing models, ensuring that agroforestry benefits are equitably distributed and locally led
Nature-Based Carbon Markets
By deploying Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) tools to track soil and biomass carbon, the program enables the generation of high-integrity agroforestry carbon credits. These credits are community-issued, empowering local stakeholders to access global carbon markets while maintaining transparency and scientific rigor.
Policy and Landscape Finance Alignment
The initiative works with local governments to shape agroforestry policies that align with national climate targets and NDCs. It facilitates access to results-based payments and blended finance solutions, ensuring long-term viability of agroforestry practices and accelerating their adoption across rural landscapes
Financing and Scalability
Circular Ecology Parks are financed through blended capital including green bonds, philanthropic funding, and public-private partnerships, ensuring long-term viability. The initiative also pilots innovative financial models that can be replicated and scaled across cities globally, aligning with both local development goals and international climate resilience frameworks
Global Impact and Targets
(2040)
By 2040, The Regenerative Agroforestry Landscapes initiative aims to restore 500,000 hectares of degraded land while reaching and supporting over 100,000 households. Through climate-smart practices, the program targets the sequestration of 35 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent, contributing significantly to global emission reduction goals. It also empowers over 20,000 women- and youth-led enterprises, fostering inclusive green livelihoods. To date, the initiative is set to generate 25 million verified agroforestry carbon credits, unlocking new streams of sustainable finance for rural communities and reinforcing the value of nature-based solutions. These projections and others form a key foundations of our activities and objectives.
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The environment we have is not just the space we live in, it is the intricate system of air, water, soil, climate, plants, and animals that makes life possible. Healthy ecosystems regulate the planet’s temperature, purify water, store carbon, pollinate crops, and protect us from natural disasters. But this balance is rapidly being disrupted. Add your Voice! ACT NOW!
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