WithOneSeed Community Forest Programme
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The WithOneSeed community forestry program, developed by xpand Foundation, is the first social enterprise acting on climate change through community lead forestry and carbon markets in Timor-Leste.
WithOneSeed community forestry started in Baguia, Timor-Leste in 2010. The program achievements to date are:
- 1200+ farmers engaged in community forestry
- 252,000+ trees under management
- 80,000+ tCO2eremoved from the global atmosphere
- More than 45,000 carbon credits sold internationally to companies driving toward carbon neutrality
- Nearly US$600,000 paid into the Baguia village economy since 2010
- Over 5%of Baguia farmers directly involved in planting and managing trees flowing on to just under 30% of the population benefitting financially from WithOneSeed
- 22permanent full-time jobs and 15 casual jobs created
- Baguia Farmer Finance Cooperative established
- WithOneSeed achieving the internationally certified carbon forestry program under the Gold Standard Foundation
- Internationally recognised Master Tree Growers agroforestry training program established in Baguia
- MOU with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste providing authenticity to the WithOneSeed program.
- 10 of the 17United Nations Sustainable Development Goals being addressed by WithOneSeed.
- Established Foundation Rai Matak (Green Land)in 2019 to manage expansion across Timor-Leste to be managed and directed by Timorese for Timorese.
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