Story of a Mission – ACA® x Trees for the Future

Since the establishment in 2019, ACA® has worked in partnership with non-profit organisation "Trees for the future", to improve the livelihoods of impoverished farmers by revitalizing degraded lands.

We aren’t just planting trees. We’re changing lives through regenerative agriculture.

The Problem

We lose trees at a rate of 50 soccer fields per minute as our food systems destroy our ecosystems. Most of this degradation occurs in the developing tropics of Africa, Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia where hundreds of millions of chronically-hungry, smallholder farming families use destructive and short-sighted agricultural practices that further degrade their communities trees, soil, water and biodiversity, making them even more likely to migrate and more vulnerable to the climate changes that lie ahead.

Our Solution

The Forest Garden Program is a simple, replicable and scalable approach with proven success.  We train farmers over a four year period to sustainably revitalize their land. We provide all of the training, seeds, tools, and materials. The farmers come prepared with their own land and ready to change their family’s life. Through our Forest Garden Approach, farmers plant thousands of trees that protect and bring nutrients back to the soil. This helps farmers grow a variety of fruits and vegetables. Forest Garden farmers gain increases in income and food security, even in the first year.

The ACA® Support

In 2019 "Trees for the Future", through the ACA® support, has helped 314 farming families across five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our focus is on the implementation of Forest Garden Programs in Cameroon, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, and Tanzania, as these are areas where we are having the biggest impact and seeing profound results.