ITF’s partners Masaka District Landcare Chapter (MADLACC) in the central region of Uganda have recently completed a project called ‘Out Scaling of Agroforestry for Poverty Reduction and Improved Livelihoods’. This project focused on engaging school children in tree planting and tree nursery management within their school grounds. MADLACC also wanted to improve the productivity of…
The beating heart of landscape restoration ITF Programmes Manager Paul Laird spoke at the Global Landscapes Forum in Bonn in December. Focusing on how landscape restoration needs to be bottom up and based on a realistic understanding of what communities want, Paul talks about two of our main programmes in Kenya and Cameroon. “Women groups…
With funding from our partners Wessanen UK, ITF has supported a series of community-based tree planting projects in Madagascar, as part of our Sustainable Community Forestry programme. These projects have been managed in partnership with the community based organisation Ny Tanintsika (Our Land). In 2017 Ny Tanintsika started a project titled ‘Endemic Trees for Sustainable…
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) African Food Systems and the SDGs Conference 3 – 5 November 2018, Saly, Senegal Blog by Andy Egan, International Tree Foundation This was my first ASFA conference, with ITF joining the alliance as a Friend of AFSA last year. The conference took place at the Palm Beach Hotel…
It’s day 3 of The Big Give Christmas Challenge, all this week donations made via our Big Give profile are being DOUBLED! If you‘re thinking of giving this festive season, this is the perfect time to do so, as your gift will go twice as far! The money raised during the Big Give will go towards…
We are excited to share with you our new five year strategy. It’s called Growing Together; for a number of reasons. First, as ITF will continue to grow trees together with local communities. Second, ITF needs to grow over the coming years so that we can do more to support the growing number of communities…
We are happy to be taking part in The Big Give Christmas Challenge for the second year running. From midday today until midday on the 4th December anything you donate to our ‘My 20 Trees and Me: Growing up Together’ project via our Big Give profile will be DOUBLED! If you‘re thinking of giving this…
Are you a successful fundraiser? Do you have a track record of delivering ambitious growth strategies? Do you have a passion for environmental issues and an appreciation of the importance of trees in sustaining life and human well-being? If your answer is ‘Yes’ to all these questions then this could be the role for you.…
The Oxford Half Marathon 2018 took place on Sunday the 7th of October, the 13.1 mile route saw over 8,600 participants run through Oxford’s beautiful and historic city centre and surrounding areas. We are pleased to say that 5 of those 8,600 runners were running on behalf of ITF and collectively raised an incredible £2,599…
The Montonnso Sacred Forest Project is part of our sustainable community forestry programme, which helps community based organisations deliver projects which help restore and conserve local forests and associated biodiversity as well as improve livelihoods through the sustainable use of trees for resources. The project was based in Ghana and worked with two communities bordering…