Our project aims to restore the degraded Njinsing-Tabenken forest, its biodiversity and water catchments in order to also improve on ecosystem services, livelihoods and climate resilience for the local forest-adjacent peoples. We are implemting our project through a food-secured eco-village in order to sustain our project and ensure community ownership. We are able to carry out the following activities with the communities through the eco-village while restoring the forest
• Nursery creation & management: Our eco-village generates some 300000 native tree species annually including melliferous species, non-exotic timber species, water loving, vines, fruits species to improve on vegetation cover, water, fodder for animals and bees. We have already planted over 100000 trees and restored some 60 hectares of degraded water catchments and forest ecosystem.
• Agroforestry and tropical tree seebank: Through our agroforestry program, we train farmers on integrated modern agro-forestry techniques like live fencing, alley cropping, windbreaks, marcotting, grafting, seed management, vegetative propagation to name nut these.
• Aquaculture: At our eco-village, forest guardians are trained and supported in our aquafarms to produce fish from small scale fish farms. This is aimed at improving their skills and making them become income sufficient while conserving the forest
• Apiculture: through our eco-village, we promote the plantations of pollinator species that boost nectar for bees and boost apiary colonization. Beneficiaries are also trained on bee-hive fabrication, installation, sustainable honey harvesting, apiary management, processing, boo keeping and market outlets.
• Market gardening: We promote organic cultivation of vegetables for income generation and the promotion of native seed, tubers and vine varieties. Identified beneficiaries trained and supported to carry out their own income generation activities
• Mushroom cultivation: We cultivate Ploreutus ostreatus (White Oyster Mushrooms) with our forest users. We also promote the conservation and marketing of mushroom to sustain and manage our eco-village
• Goat farming: We practice zero grazing and integrated sheep farming for its dung which use for the growing of our organic vegetables and trees. Farmers are trained to practice it in order to recue farmer-grazer conflicts and promote sustainable co-habitation while generating income
• Integrated Piggery: We promote an integrated pig farming whereby we use the dung to fertilize our fish ponds. Farmers are trained on local sustainable feed production that sustains their pig farms and improves income.
• Integrated Azolla Farming: Our Azolla farms subsidize our poultry Piggery and fish nutrition. Farmers are trained on how to grow azolla for a sustainable income generation from each eco-village activity while conserving the forest and its biodiversity
• Integrated Black soldier fly farming: we also grow black soldier fly which we use in feeding our fish and our birds. Through this practice with our adjacent forest users, income is sustained
• Poultry farming: Through our poultry farm, we are training and supporting our forest users to grow and generate income from native brahma fowls species.
• Restoration and livelihoods: Through our eco-village, we have already restored some 60 hectares of degraded forest with native trees and trained and supported some 300 forest-dependent peoples and also temporally employed some 3800 people.