Conservation and Afforestation Project in Haiti
A conservation and afforestation project aiming to restore 5,000 ha of mangroves and establish an agroforestry cultivation in the marine area of Baradères Cayemites, Haiti.
The project aims to restore 5,000 hectares of mangroves, establish agroforestry cultivation on 5,000 hectares, and allocate 1,000 hectares for energy wood production. In total, the project will involve planting 3,000,000 trees over the next decade.
This initiative is driven by concerns over the climate crisis and has the additional benefits of sequestering 150,000 tCO2 through the restored mangrove and 2,000,000 tCO2 through the agroforestry system over a 30-year period.
Local communities, and especially local farmers, will be a key player in the feasibility and success of this project, and will benefit from the cash crop.
This project will be certified by VCS (Verified Carbon Standard).
Environmental and Socio-economic Co-benefits
No poverty.
The inclusion of an agroforestry aspect to this project ensures that local populations have a financial incentive to take part in and actively pursue the success of this initiatve in the long-term. The generation of additional revenues from cash crops allows to alleviaite pressures on local poverty hence addressing the United Nations’ SDG '1 ‘No poverty.’
Climate action.
By sequestrating CO2 through the restauration of mangrove and agroforestry project involving planting diverse tree species, this project tackles the United Nations’ SDG 13 ‘Climate action’, and in particular target 13.3 ‘Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters.’
Life on land.
This project essentially seeks to reach the United Nations’ SDG 15 ‘Life on Land’ which aims to ‘protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems’. The three components of this initiative, restauration, conservation, and agroforestry, address different targets established for this goal.
Our main partner: Palmis Eneji
Palmis Eneji is since 2012 a social entreprise in Haiti. Their main activities cover the development of products with a high ecological and economic impact, including solar lighting and economical cooking solutions.
