AESL Tree Crop Production & Management

AESL Tree Crop Production & Management

Action for Empowerment and Sustainable Livelihood (AESL)

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Lieu de réalisation

1 - À la ferme

Description sommaire de la pratique agroécologique

Agriculture and Agroforestry; We promote economic growth by increasing the income of smallholder cocoa farmers through the cultivation of organic cocoa which enables them to receive good prices in Kenema and Kailahun Districts. Promote climate-smart agricultural farming as a future mitigation strategy for climate change by providing planting materials for mix cropping; cassava cuttings, plantain/banner suckers, nitrogen-fixing trees, and timber trees.
Environmental Protection and Agroecology; AESL promotes sustainable use of ecosystems and halts climate change by reclaiming degraded land by intensifying reforestation in the country through the development of community forests in a bid to increase tree cover, and consequently reduce the many environmental disasters that currently occur

Type de pratique agroécologique

We establish cocoa and other tree crops nurseries, we out plant into permanent sites and reforest degraded lands.

Mise en œuvre de la pratique

Establishing community nurseries, develop community climate smart farms and train youth on agronomic practices and livelihood

Pourquoi utilisez-vous cette pratique et qu'attendez-vous d'elle ?

Our expectation;
1. Economic growth by increasing the income of farmers through the cultivation of organic cocoa
2. Halts climate change by promoting climate-smart agricultural farming that increase tree cover, and consequently reduce the many environmental disasters

Superficie du terrain

60.0 Acre

Substitution d'une alternative moins écologique

N'est pas applicable

Détails

No, we do organic farming