Forest Trees and Sustainable Livelihoods

The project plans reforestation/afforestation of the common land around village boundaries with fodder and multipurpose tree species and plantation of fruit trees in the Uttarakhand, Assam and Odisha states, respectively, where the NGO is working from past several years. Interventions have the potential to address various issues environmental and economic) while also and fruit tree species will help in ecological restoration on the one hand and contributes significantly towards climate change mitigation of carbon from the atmosphere. availability of fodder in the project villages and the plantation of fruit trees will contribute substantially to the villager’s income.