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It helps families in Africa to get a better life.
Swedish students sometimes go there to see the project and talk to the farmers.
One of them wrote in the blog she yawned and they asked her if she was hungry.
Earlier in their lifes they didn´t get food every day and yawned not because they were tired but hungry.
 
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Translation from the video

We are aware of climate change worldwide, but it is worst in Africa
Global warming means more poverty for those who depend on agriculture
Climate change is a problem that has existed in the past 30 years
Deforestation has depleted local ecosystems and it's made a big impact on the farms.
Soil erosion as a result of water runoff are causing the soil layers becomes more and more exposed.
This is a result of inadequate practices in the agricultural and livestock ..
Gullies have formed.
For 20 years, Emanuel seen it six feet deep and 5 kilometers long canyon to dig their way through the landscape

80% of the population in Kenya is dependent on agriculture and access to water for their livelihood
Agricultural practices have depleted the country's natural resources and poverty has increased in many parts of Kenya

Petronilla is the sole parent of five children.
The Earth is not as närinsrik as before and for the second consecutive year, her maize harvest failed.

It is important to realize that poor soils give poor people.
. With regard to climate change, there is another consequence as a result of depletion of the earth and poor agricultural practices.
The soil contains twice the carbon as the atmosphere and small changes of carbon in the soil creates large differences in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere
We Agroforestry has seen the great potential for the planet when it comes to alleviating global warming and create better conditions for farmers to cope with climate change.
Climate-friendly agricultural practices makes a hope is spreading in East Africa.

Bernard lives a few miles from Petronillah. Although his farm has the same conditions as her booming his farm.
His success is partly a result of manure he gets from his cows who has made &#8203;&#8203;his corn grows well even if it´s dry
B has also increased the fertility of the soil by preventing erosion
This he has done by digging ditches and planting nitrogen-fixing crop.

Each farm that may help climate-friendly farming methods are carefully chosen to obtain the individual challenges facing farmers.It all starts with creating an understanding of how to get the most out of each farm

J was encouraged to become a dairy farmer, instead of cultivating a single crop.
The income is now 100 times larger than before.

The solution for Clarice was another one..With the high runoff from the mountains above her house, her land is often covered with water and they take over the soil layers were washed bort.Vi Agroforestry solution was to encourage her to dig a small pond, put in some water gaps and channel it to areas where it was needed, grow in raised soil beds and adding compost
The dam provides C with water all year round.

F and H had a cow, using manure to nourish the earth and use agrforestrymetoder fr to improve soil fertility, things have improved. They now have three cows, 100 hens, 100 chickens sold in the market and can now also remunerate their workers to help them in the yard.

All farmers, agroforestry, we work with are very aware of how climate change affects dom.Dom will do anything to survive and mitigate its impact on the farms,

Sustainable methods for farming has the potential to give us all a winning scenario.They develop poor areas of the earth, is increasing peasants' resistance to climatechanges. They relieves the effects of climate change around the globe.
 
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In the beginning there were only a few persons in this charity and now they´ve helped one million, it shows it can be done.
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Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project "is the first project to generate carbon credits from agriculture in Africa, also paves the way for a new strategy for methods for measuring carbon. The project illustrates concretely how kolfinansiering can both support the environment and generate income for local communities.

Reduce farmers' vulnerability to climate change
The project is an example of what Andrew Steer, World Bank's Special Envoy on climate change, refer to as a "triple win". This means that the increases in agricultural productivity, carbon sequestration and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce farmers' vulnerability to climate change.

Contribute to a better climate
World Bank Bio Carbon Fund has signed an agreement with the Vi Agroforestry. By growing with sustainable farming methods help farmers in Africa to a better climate, which shall now be compensated for.


Many advantages in agriculture
The agreement was signed at a ceremony held at the International Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change November 3, 2010 in The Hague, Netherlands. The direct benefit to the local population of 60 000 households are a revenue of over 350 000 U.S. dollars. Indirectly, it has many advantages in agriculture as it will help farmers adapt to climate change.
 
It's hard to believe that the land on Teophiles farm a few years ago it was almost impossible to cultivate. The intense rains during the rainy season did not have time to be absorbed into the soil, rather than swept the water with him all the land and all nutrients. It left only a leached, dry soil.
Before we got support from the We-woods, it was difficult for us to cultivate the soil here, says Teophile. Together with other farmers, we started to dig out the terraces on each other's farms.

On the terraces, we planted trees. Trees give us so much. They bind the soil so that it can not be washed away with rain and makes the leaves nourish the soil when they fall off.

Thanks to the knowledge Teophile We have received from the forest, he has also built a system to collect rainwater from the roofs. With Vi Agroforestry help he built the first water tank, it gave him the strength to belief in himself, and on his own, he built then the other.
Teophile usually get a visit to his farm to other farmers who want to learn how to collect their own water, and he has lots of advice to them.

- It is an expensive and hard work to build what it takes to collect water. Therefore, I give them the Council to get together in groups and help each other. If a team builds a system together so they can share the water that is collected, he said.

Today Teophile need no longer worry about their land when the rain patters down on the afternoon of the tiles on the roof. Instead, he enjoyed the rain collected in the family's container in the yard and provides water to both families, crops and animals

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The most important reason to build the terraces is to prevent soil erosion


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There is a proverb in Rwanda "the bird who doesn´t fly can´t know where to find ripe grains"
Traditionell farmers can visit and study the work of farmers who work with agroforestry and learn how to make better and more harvests.
Then neighbours can learn agroforestry from the new agroforestry farmers

Another god thing;farmers can buy solar panel from vi-skogen and have a lamp, children can do their homework even after it gets dark early in the evening.They can use the solarpanel to load their mobile phones too.

Students and teachers in Kikuuta Islamic Primary School i Mitaya, Uganda have got education in agroforestry,they also get educated about the environment and health,childrens and human rights.

There are trees growing around the school thanks to the plant nursery and children got plants to take home too.
They got seeds and now they have 2 vegatable gardens managed by the students and their parents.
If the children can´t eat all vegetables they sell it in the market.
Before the school started to work with Vi-agroforesty many children didn´t get breakfast and lunch and that wasn´t good for their studies.
11% of the children were malnourished and they and their families got extra support.
2 years later their weight are normal.
Today they get food in school and there are not failed in their studies
The children are more active and play more.
 
Pioneer in biogas
Sylvester Musoke live in Mityana, Uganda, and he is one of the pioneers of biogas. With support from Vi Agroforestry, he has built a self-energy facility.

- It took two days to build it all, then about a month before it was ready to go, "said Sylvester on its site," The floating drum.
Water and cow manure are filled in the barrel
The whole thing consists of two plastic drums in two sizes. You start by placing the larger barrel (holds 1000 liters) and fills it with water and cow dung. On top is then an overturned small barrel (750 liters). The air pocket in the lower barrel is formed methane gas then passed through a tube into the kitchen stove. For this process to continue, there is an inlet and outlet.
- I fill in with 2 kg finely chopped food particles mixed with 10 liters of water daily-

Premium fertilizers
The content is fermented in the bottom and the sludge that is clearly flowing automatic up to the surface. At the surface there is an opening through which it flows out. The same amount as Sylvester daily loading, the same amount then comes out the other end. This is used as first-class fertilizer containing both microorganisms and nitrogen. On average it takes about 25-30 days to the content that you add to ferment and create fertilizer and methane gas.


Saves time
Sylvester says with delight that he gets less than four hours of a beautiful blue flame in the kitchen every day.
- It is wonderful when it rains and it takes far less time than looking for wood.


Less destruction of forest
Without coal and wood so you avoid the smoke that provides respiratory and eye irritation and above all, so you avoid the devastation of forests. There are also fewer emissions into the environment and the manure from the outlet to provide nourishment to the earth. In addition, it is possible to connect a gas-to night lighting if you don´t have
solar panels on the roof.


The children have more time for homework
Another, major advantage is that children need to be away for a long time to search for firewood.
- Today, fill the tank of biogas which is much easier, plus they then stay close to home. They have more time for homework, says Sylvester with a smile.

You can see a picture here
http://www.viskogen.se/Nyhet.aspx?M=News&PID=3270&NewsID=4662
 
I donated trees and wrote in the memory of Michael Jackson.
Then I got 2 letters ,one addressed to me and one to Michael Jackson with my address
 
Fruit trees such as mango and avocado trees have roots that are taking place. They should not be planted next to perennial crops such as coffee and bananas, not even close to vegetables, "says Kandida Rogers

Candidates and her husband Daudi Kahungyas live outside Kagera in Tanzania. When they married they bought a small piece of land and began to grow bananas. Two large mango trees and an avocado tree was left standing but there were no place for other crops, including vegetables did not fit.

The farm's banana was the family's only source of income and therefore most important. Unbalanced diet caused malnutrition, over time, especially for the family's three young children. Candidates and Daudi became more and more worried, how would your family cope if their banana crop was affected by pests or crop failure?


- Finally, we invited Vi Agroforestry, who gave us tips and advice. No yard is too small for tree farming! said Kandida

The family's land is now surrounded by budding Calliandra trees that stops it from erosion down the steep landscape, giving the soil nutrition, family firewood and fodder for the farm's goats. Below the family's banana plants have Kandida spent dried grass that protect soil, absorb rainwater and nourish the soil.Kandida and Daudi has also undermined the long horizontal trenches, which they fill during the dry season of crop residues and manure from the goat. When the rain begins infiltrating easy ditches and thus the earth.


- We were hesitant, vegetables need plenty of water. We therefore take advantage of the rain and use it effectively, says Daudi.

Peppers, lettuce and various spinach varieties growing next to farm bananas. At the end of the first and shorter rainy season planting family vegetables such as carrots, tomatoes and chillies. They're waiting out the first dry season and harvests since the rainy season begins. Green Things roots nourished by soils banana roots do not reach, but when vegetable roots and stalks left after harvest and broken down, they form available, fertile soil.


- We are faced daily with a great ignorance among neighbors and friends about the importance of a varied diet. Vi Agroforestry has taught us how we can improve our food safety and especially our children's health, says Kandida

Kandida is the last two years been organized in a savings and loan group Vi Agroforestry training. Her goal is to be advised to buy a plastic barrel that can store thousands of liters of rainwater. Kandida dare to believe in the future, and before we say goodbye, she says,
- Good thing we had avocado tree and mango trees to remain. Now their flowers attract bees also pollinate our vegetables!

http://www.viskogen.se/Nyhet.aspx?M=News&PID=3270&NewsID=4788
 

One day there will be forest there again just like it was one time.
Michael will have his christmasgifts trees next week
 
From a blog written by one of the swedish students
An investment for the future
February 27, 2013 · Tamara Jönsson · No Comments

Last week was a busy and exciting week. For the first time we were on the field visit to Tanzania, and for the first time we got to visit a FOF (Farmers of the Future) school. FOF is a project that Vi Agroforestry has started where it collaborates with schools to reach out to a younger audience. When I and Anna came to "FOF school" Wariku Secondary School, which is located in the Serengeti zone, we were very curious and eager to ascertain what FOF is and how it works. We got to meet the students, between 13-18 years, who are in the FOF program. It was mixed boys and girls. Out on the lawn among the many trees that were on the farm, we ask our questions. Anna and I showered the students with questions such as:

- Why did you choose to join the FOF? What do you do in the FOF program? Do you think you learn anything? Enlarge this knowledge on?

Students responded to limited English as best they could to our questions. FOF program has been organized at the school through an environmental club, where 20 students are selected. Initially, the group taught by Vi Agroforestry staff in agroforestry, climate change and practical knowledge as how to plant trees and vegetables, and its positive effect on health and environment. The school has a number of trees planted and there is also a vegetable garden. But it turned out that the group of students who stood in front of us, was a new group that has not yet been clear about the implications of agroforestry, climate change and tree positive qualities.

When they were set during our intense interrogation, they were once timid and afraid to answer the questions asked. One of Vi Agroforestry staff came forward and said:

- Who can tell me what agroforestry is?

A confusion and silence followed in response. There was an embarrassed audience. To lighten the mood Anna and I stepped in and explained that we are students from Sweden who do not really know what agroforestry was before we came here, but we have now learned this and happy to share with our newfound knowledge. 20 minutes later we stood with an interpreter in front of these 20 young people and explained summarizes what we have learned about agroforestry and how we witnessed a positive change out of the farmers we visited. A dedicated crowd nodded in agreement on what we had to tell.

One of the guys in the group asked the question:

- But if you do not have money what should we be successful in agroforestry?

Anna had the pleasure to meet:

- You have begun to think at the wrong end. Money does not come first. With knowledge you can put your plans into action and knowledge, you can then convert into equity if you want. Remember that no one can take away from you the knowledge, but the money can easily be lost.

The time could quickly become four in the afternoon and it was time to leave. The students thanked us because we came and we thanked him for letting us come, for letting us share knowledge with them. I realized there and then that we too Swedish students may be part of the FOF program. We belong to a younger generation that is educated in how we must take care of mother earth in a sustainable manner. Just as the 20 young people we met, have we learned about sustainable farming practices and by our practice, we will bring this knowledge forward.

http://www.viskogen.se/blog/blogg/en-satsning-for-framtiden/
 
farmers of the future

Maybe we have future teachers,doctors etc here
 
Trees for Cities
February 11, 2013 · Emma Eine Forest · 1 comment

Before we left Kenya a week ago and we visited one of the schools that Vi Agroforestry works with. The school called Nyakongo Primery School, and is an hour's drive from Kisumu in eastern Kenya.

Phenyl have just come back from a month's vacation and apologetic, she says that it tends to be better organized in the kitchen garden than it is right now.
Four years ago, the school began working with Vi Agroforestry in a project called Threes for Cities . The school has, with the teacher Pheny Abonyo in the lead, started a agroforestryklubb for students, a group that is actively working to make the school environment greener.:)

In a rectangular area in front of the low school building thriving greenery. Small and large trees mixed with smaller shrubs. Through the rocky and dry soil penetrates the newly planted grass front. The shade from the trees extending over school building shiny tin roof. Between the trees, the temperature is much cooler than on the dry gravel yard next door. Trees range is used as the school assembly hall.:)

Children in blue uniforms playing and playing football on the sloping gravel which is the schoolyard.
In the far end appears a large crack in the ground, traces of soil erosion. When the rain comes in, the water brings the dry soil and leaves the ground and rocky with large wounds. Previously the schoolyard was full of cracks and it was difficult to find a flat surface to play football, Pheny tells without taking the eyes off the heavily inflated football that flies over the school plan.

In agroforestryklubben the students learn how trees can help to prevent the soil from eroding. Around football field the club has planted trees like a hedge and started planting grass inside the hedge. Land problems have been drastically reduced, the tree roots and the grass keeps the soil in place.:jump:

http://www.viskogen.se/blog/blogg/trad-for-stader/
 
Changed fertilizer to manure and became self-sufficient

Nyaberadistriktet in western Kenya, one of Kenya's hottest areas. Temperatures are constant over thirty degrees and rainy season is short and unreliable. Here live the family Achienga with four children on their three-acre farm. Emilly Achienga, 30, and Asha Achienga, 35, was until just two years ago tomato growers. Their unilateral agriculture was totally dependent on expensive chemical fertilizers.

- Fertilisers became a major expense for us, which meant that it was difficult to get households to make ends meet. Sometimes when the tomato crop failed, we had nothing that gave us an income, says Emilly.

More crops securing access to food
With Vi- Agroforestrys help the family has changed to green forest farming. Tomato growing is gone and instead have Emilly several kinds of crops and lots of trees in the yard. To have more crops than just tomatoes gives the family a more secure access to food and income, even if the harvest would be wrong, there are more harvests left.

Not dependent on expensive chemical fertilizers

Just two years after Emilly planted his first agroforestrytree on the family farm it has undergone a tremendous change. With Vi Agroforestrys help Emilly now use the tree's natural ability to take care of the earth instead of being dependent on the costly and unsustainable fertilizer. The trees grow in long lines amid the vegetables and in addition to the positive environmental impact of supplying trees Emilly can feed animal , which provides healthy and strong animals that make the whole family Achienga getting enough milk and eggs.

Proudly showing Emilly a large and prosperous dairy cow.
- Her name is Vi, as without Vi Agroforestry's advice, I had not been able to buy her.

Reduces the impact on the environment

Replacing fertilizer on planting trees and using dung from cow Vi, was a very profitable business for the family's finances. But even the global environment feel better transition. Chemical fertilizer requires large amounts of fossil fuels, both to produce and transport, which contributes to the increasing global greenhouse effect. The trees and dung doing now instead that the family Achienga year after year can continue to work the land and have successful harvests.

Emilly looking out over the green fields as the width is filled with various fruit trees.
- Vi Agroforestry has learned how to conserve both the farm and the earth's resources, which is good both for our sake but also our children. It is reassuring to know that when we get old, our children continue farming the land here. We have not ruined it for them!
Text: Emma Eineskog
http://www.viskogen.se/blog/2013/05/15/bytte-konstgodsel-mot-dynga-blev-sjalvforsorjande/
 
How you educate 3000 farmers without powerpoint

Slowly the gardens at Vi Agroforestry Agroforestry Centre in Kitale are filled with farmers from all sides. We anticipate that 3000 will come to our annual open learning to learn anything from that build their own biogas plant. To grow nutritious leafy vegetables in a little small space.

How have you advertised to reach the farmers? I wonder a little timid when I think it is not so many there the educations first day. Huh? Nah, we do not advertise, replies the young manager. We drive around with a truck with large speakers in the villages. I promise you - they will come. And they did! With buses, boda bodas, matatus and walking soon men and women poured through the gates.

Two out of the visitors are Alice and Sara,friends from Mwanda. They follow the taped path around the small cultivated fields inside the area. They giggles little but note carefully what is being said in their black notebooks and pencils small illustrations showing how crops are planted. For here grows Vi Agroforestry throughout the year different types of crops using agroforestrymethods. In this way, the farmers themselves can come and compare for example how well different kinds of corn grow, what plants can be planted with maize to remove vermin, which trees fix nitrogen in the soil and the soil's fertility, how to gathers water in the yard when the rain. All the agroforestrymetoder as Vi Agroforestry taught to tens of thousands of farmers in East Africa available here, gathered in one area. It's like a farmers' lego land where anything is possible - with a little imagination and a strong will to do it.

Living with HIV - and simultaneously support seven children
Sarah's husband died of HIV a few years ago. Today she supplies her seven children on her own. I'm struggeling, she says and leans forward to quietly tell that she has HIV. She is tired. Tired of the disease. Tired of agriculture. It is hard to run around the yard on her own. In the treatment of HIV nutritious diet is an extremely important part, the drugs can only do 25% of the work while the right foods is said to account for nearly 75% of the treatment here. Therefore, education about the vegetable garden today is particularly important for Sara. She reads the signs on the leafy vegetables: Boost your immune system. Good for Those with anemia. Sara notes. Well, some of these should she try to cultivate at home.

We pass through a thick line of bright yellow flowers. Fine, I think, a something to look at.. No no, this is not for it to be neat, says trainer we meet. These flowers are natural insecticides and simultaneously attracts the bees. A perfect flower to plant next to corn, especially if you are a beekeeper and want good honey. Sara record, yes, this is she to tell their neighbors who could not come today. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers are expensive and often have a negative impact on crop yields in the long term - but in the short term, they increase farmers' incomes significantly. A fine balancing act to manage, and therefore raises Vi Agroforestry front alterations alternative methods. planting plants together. Compost. Smart plants.

Sustainable change takes time
Sara has known Vi Agroforestry for a few years, but it is only recently that she starts working actively with agroforestry on her farm. I've got seedlings from Vi Agroforestry which I planted with corn and I have started composting, says Alice. I get little better harvests now, but you know it takes time to change. So I want to learn more, why am I here today.

The program is simple - but effective. There is no need for flashy PowerPoint presentations, interactive apps or 3D printer. A flipchart with key facts and an inspiring facilitator goes a long way. And it will be a ripple effect.

http://www.viskogen.se/blog/blogg/hur-man-utbildar-3000-bonder-utan-powerpoint/
 
Every year disappears 10,000 hectares of forest in Kenya.

Deforestation in Kenya goes fast . Today, only six per cent of Kenya is forested, according to UN Agriculture Organisation. In 1970 the proportion was eleven percent. Every year over ten thousand hectares of forest disappears in the country. With devastating consequences for the environment , animals and people .

- Lack of legislation on harvesting is a reason, but mostly it's about money and poverty. To fell trees provide income, farming land , firewood and building materials. With an increase in population will also increase the strain on forests , says Arne Andersson, Vi Agroforestry Programme .

The whole world's climate is influenced
The large scale of deforestation leads to the extinction of plant and animal species , desertification , floods, hunger and poverty. Deforestation also has a significant effect on the global climate and is one of the major contributors to the climate changes that are happening today.

- In Kenya , as in Sweden , the trees are a source of life . Without forests, extinction of animals and plants and the climate changes . In some places where we work , the trees are also crucial for the earth, and thus the people's income, may not be flushed away from the fields, says Arne Andersson.

Tree saves both man and nature
People living in the area around Lake Victoria is greatly affected by deforestation. But through support and training in farming techniques , farmers plant trees and crops on their farms. The trees provide shade , wood, food on the table , income and food for the animals . They absorb carbon dioxide from the air and improve the environment , soil fertility and prevent soil erosion.

Facts:
Proportion of forest in Sweden: 69%
Proportion of forest in the world: 31%
Proportion of forest in Africa: 23%
Proportion of forest in Kenya: 6%

Did you know?
"The world's forests will decrease by 7.3 million hectares per year? East Africa's forests decreases by 0.7 million hectares per year. "
"Deforestation contributes 17 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Indirectly, it contributes to a lot more then the carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere instead of being taken up by the trees. "

How would life without trees look like?


How would it look like where you live?
 
Hills around Mpigi in Uganda are empty. Seven years ago the deforestation in the area began.
Deforestation leads to the extinction of plant and animal species, desertification, floods, hunger and poverty.
It also has a significant effect on the global climate and is one of the climate changes that are occurring today.
For the individual farmer the trees are the difference between going hungry and being able to feed themselves.Now the deforestation come all closer to the farmers houses

But Saidat N´s farm is green.
Here the mango trees heavy crowns give shadow to the ripening maize, while providing the family with nutritious fruit.
The rows with green kaliandrager feed the cattle and prevents the earth to disappear from the fields.
Forest Grove with the newly planted mahogany trees eventually give firewood and timber to the yard.

The change came when the S family became members of the village farmers' group.
When vi- Agroforestry first visited our village, I heard about planting trees and firewood saving stoves.Nu when we have planted trees on the farm and built the new stove's life easier.
I do not need the forest for firewood, I get firewood from the trees in our own yard

S and her husband share the work on the farm and both have through Vi- Agroforestry been trained in agroforestry ,planting trees and crops together, build water ditches to conserve rainwater and compost using leaves from trees

Vi Agroforestry taught us how we can best take care of the earth and we started with fertilizer of animals and compost. Now the soil very fertile and we get good harvests.
Today, we do not buy any food at all says S.

The increased yields also means that the family can sell some products from the farm. Much has already happened in the yard so S can dream of more;To be able to pay school fees for the children
S family needed only a few trees, a training and hard work to ensure that deforestation is not affected them.
Now, their planting contributes to that the hills in the area again turning green

We can help so that more farmers are getting opportunities that S and her husband got, to make a change for the better.
Together we can stop deforestation in East Africa.
Together we can make the change
 
What happens when field staff takes off?

The thing with aid. Is it really worthwhile?Does it really give any long-term changes or is it just plaster on a broken bone? And don´t everything get just as usual when the field staff leaves Nah - not all aid is good aid. But the meeting with Francis Atonya would provide any aid doubters any hiccups. For even though there are over 5 years ago Vi Agroforestry left the village Makutano Farmer in Kenya the farms are green and farmers continue to practice the techniques they have learned. It continues Vi Agroforestry spirit to sprout - without field staff attendance.


Avocado trees are heavy with fruit.
Banana Bunches hangs so heavy on the tribes that they need to be propped up. Coffee plants are producing new shoots. The trees provide shade to the little courtyard.
A prosperous farming simply.
Francis Atonya proudly shows us around the farm while his wife Pamela Atonya cleans the corn dried in the sun. Three of the children are in school, while the other three have already moved away from their childhood home. The afternoon sun is mild. The harmony of family shines through.
The farm breathe cooperation and success.

- Look there, says Francis, pointing to the property line. The trees here frames the courtyard and protects maize. And you see the napiergrass I have for my animals? It is advice I received from Vi Agroforestry.

Vi Agroforestry often works three years intensively with a region, and then 2 years of follow-up work and lower intensity in training. Next, the field personnelleaves the region to meet new villages, new farmers. But the result holds.

- Before we met Vi Agroforestry we cultured most corn and some bananas. But then we diversified our crops and made a plan for the whole farm, to use it to best effect. So now it supplies the whole family and we do not need to buy food.

The methods are many. But the trees are still the core of Vi Agroforestry aid work. And here on the farm, the trees are many; grevillea, sesbania, white sapote. And they have given a lot to the farm; increased yields, fruit, fodder, shade, shelter, firewood. And so the timber. Last year Francis could sell some of it and the money went straight to the children's school fees.

- I tell my children to never stop planting trees, for they are needed. Without trees and without Vi Agroforestry would life here on the farm has been difficult. Downright miserable. I had not had any tree products at all from my yard but had to buy everything. And how could I have money for school fees?

Aid that works in the long run. Simply. Generation after generation


http://www.viskogen.se/blog/blogg/vad-hander-nar-faltpersonalen-ger-sig-av/
 
1983 grounder of Vi-agroforestry asked people to give trees instead of flowers
Now Vi-agroforestry ask organizers to give thank you trees instead of flowers,
By thanking artists with trees instead of flowers after a performance, an organizer can help many people out of poverty.

The trees are designed by Lasse Åberg, director, actor and more..
I am against Destruction of forests he says.

Here you can see how that tree looks like and I can see there are some theaters that have began with it.
http://www.viskogen.se/foretag/tacktrad/
 
Did you know that farmer organizations in East Africal takes over parts of Vi Agroforestry's work to educate the farmers?

YEP - and we are super proud! Farmer groups we once helped to start has now grown so strong that they have formed cooperatives and themselves employ agroforestryspecialister, training new farmers' groups in how the trees and crops can interact together. We call that long-term assistance!

-" Before I got farmer training from Vi Agroforestry in such agroforestry. But now we have come together and have started our own cooperatives and become partner to Vi Agroforestry instead, says farmer and chairman Mujambere Appolinaire proud.

The cooperative still get help from Vi Agroforestry, but on another level. Now Vi-agroforestry support with organizational and leadership development so that the organization can grow even stronger and attract new members - new farmers who receive training in agroforestry.
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