Trees&Life combines:
creation of community-based forests that restores the property, or at least the use, of the forests to the local populations, thus helping to reduce deforestation;
replanting of multipurpose trees (fruits, energy, quickset hedges, honey, etc.) in the villages;
rainwater harvesting and retention for the benefit of farming.
Therefore, Trees&Life immediately improves the living conditions of the populations involved, restores the deteriorated ecosystems and has positive effects on the climate.
About climate, it uses the support of the scientific experiments of the NASA Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE) and the theory of The Global Cooling Project by the "Land Atmosphere and Resilience Initiative" (LARI) in order to try to demonstrate that this combination of actions extended to a large scale has an impact on the temperature and rainfall not just at local level but also at regional and even global level. If the experimentation is conclusive, humankind will have at its disposal a revolutionary tool because it is natural, inexpensive and can be duplicated for the restoration of ecosystems and climate stabilisation.
The programme started in Casamance, Senegal, where 300,000 multipurpose trees have already been planted during the rainy season (July–September 2009).
15 billion trees will be planted within 10 years in various countries of the intertropical belt.
