tree aid - land and water management techniques

Land and water management

in Africa’s drylands.

Gloucester University, September 2014

Vision:To replace poverty in the African drylands with thriving, self-reliant communities

Mission:To help communities unlock the potential of trees…

…to fight poverty

and protect the

environment

TREE AID’s work in 4 key areas:

Enterprise Development

& Trade

Food Security & Nutrition

Forest Governance

Agroforestry &

Natural Resource Management

supports villagers to

build thriving and

sustainable futures

for themselves and

their landscapes.

Africa’s drylands are home to 350 million people. More than 130 million of these people live in rural villages,

in chronic hunger and on the constant edge of a food crisis. These are the communities TREE AID works with.

Poverty and the environment are often tightly

linked. Poverty limits the choices of poor people

so they are often forced to over-exploit their

environment just to survive.

Land Management

Water Management

Trees are increasingly recognised as an essential

asset for poor people.

Trees help to build resilience to the impacts of

climate change: freak weather; drought; crop failure; hunger

With TREE AID’s help dryland forests can provide a

safety net for the poor: trees are a sustainable

resource that offer a pathway out of poverty