Price: £6.97
Standard: PlanVIVO
Location: Malawi
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The Trees of Hope project is being implemented in two districts (Dowa and Neno) of central and southern Malawi respectively where rural smallholders voluntarily engage in the establishment of forestry and agroforestry land-use systems for generation of carbon credits and other livelihood benefits. Besides carbon sequestration, communities will benefit from the provision of fuel-wood, food (fruits), medicines, construction materials (poles, timber etc), water conservation and soil fertility improvement. The project is coordinated by the Clinton Development Initiative (CDI) with its head office in Lilongwe and field offices in the target districts. The project maintains its close community presence through a network of Local Program Monitors (LPMs), farmer volunteers chosen by the communities to serve as local project leaders. Monitors provide general extension to all producers managing five technical specifications namely, boundary planting, woodlots, dispersed systematic inter-planting (DSI), citrus and mango orchards. Currently (2011) the project engages over 1290 smallholder producers, managing an area of over 488 hectares and 5743 (100m units) of boundary planting. These areas will collectively sequester 99,228 tCO2e over the project crediting period.