Sustainable livelihoods impact
Impact Overview
Together with our supporters and partners, we design tree-planting programs that empower local communities, creating lasting social and economic impact.
Through sustainable farming on community forests, these efforts enhance and sustain local livelihoods by incresing income, building capacity and skills, creating job opportunities, and promoting gender equality – all of which strengthen community resilience.
By improving sustainable livelihoods through tree planting, we contribute to the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
How Tree Planting Impacts
Sustainable Livelihoods
Increasing Income Sources
The tree-planting programs help local farmers to get started in community forestry, allowing them to earn income by owning, harvesting, and selling yields from trees they plant, like beans and fruits. With agroforestry combining trees and crops enhances short and long-term yields, supporting sustainable livelihoods.
Coffee beans, clove buds, sugar palm sap, rudraksha fruits, and stinky bean pods are among the most valuable tree yields that economically benefit local communities.
“In one harvesting time of robusta coffee trees I planted, there may be about 5 kilograms of beans. Ground robusta coffee’s price can reach up to 30.000 rupiahs per kilogram in the market.”
Rasito, a Tree Grower from Kebumen
Building Skills and Capacity
As part our efforts to empower local communities through education, our tree-planting programs provide training in sustainable farming, strengthening local community’s skills and capacity.
Since 2022, we have delivered training on more than 20 sustainable farming topics including making organic fertilizers and pesticides, grafting techniques to optimize tree growth, producing soil – enriching microbes, and more.
Creating Employment Opportunities
By engaging local communities in our tree-planting initiatives, we create vital employment opportunities in and around tree-planting areas, spanning roles from fieldwork to nursery operations.
Each year, our programs employ over 1,000 local community members, including nursery workers who nurture seedlings and field facilitators who assist tree-planting implementation within local farmers.
Gender Equality
Women play an active role in our tree-planting operation as tree growers, nursery workers, field team members, and support staff. By including women in these roles, our tree-planting operations promote gender equality and provide equal opportunities in work roles, trainings, and other advancement.
To date, more than 20% of those involved in our tree-planrting operations are women, gaining access to decent livelihoods, and various work roles.
“As a widower, I am the sole breadwinner for my family. Working in this nursery enables me to support them . I’ve also got an opportunity to improve my knowledge in how to care and grow seeds into healthy seedlings.”
Entin, a Nursery Worker
Each Tree You Plant
Helps sustain local livelihoods, empowers women, and creates job opportunities, improving well-being of local communities where we work.
Planting Trees, Empowering Women
Women’s roles in every stage of Trees4Trees’ trees planting efforts – from field coordinators, facilitators, farmers, to nursery workers – are invaluable. We are committed to providing equal opportunities, empowering women to lead and drive lasting community impact through sustainable tree planting.
