Our targeting approaches appreciate the need to emancipate special interest groups including women and young people. Women are active users and managers of forest resources. However, forestry is largely considered a man’s field. Women’s participation in forest restoration thus require special consideration. Through involvement of young people, both children and youth, we cultivate a long-term...
Forest ecosystems provide key goods and services for the subsistence and survival of local populations. Trees and forests strengthen poor people’s assets base for increased incomes, food security and resilience to shocks. Trees and forests also provide descent employment in the wood industry, ecotourism, and the collection and sale of a wide range of non-wood...
In order to conserve trees and forests, sustainably use forest resources and mitigate climate change, we support communities to adopt efficient and clean energy technologies. Greater energy efficiency can also relieve stress on forestry resources. Local communities continue to rely on primitive methods of cooking technologies, most especially the 3-stone cook-stoves.
Through trees and forests restoration we support communities to get access to healthy food products from trees thus contributing to food security and better nutrition. Forest ecosystems also support a range of crucial ecosystem services for agriculture, including pest and disease regulation, pollinator habitat, microclimate control, water and nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, protection against soil...
We support the restoration of trees and forests on the farmlands, in water catchment areas, on marginal lands and urban landscapes in order to enhance the environmental ability to provide ecosystem services
Biodiversity loss, through land degradation and drought, is a serious threat to the sustainable development activities across the continent of Africa. This is often exacerbated by the lack of knowledge and skills on sustainable land management practices and forest biodiversity conservation. Low levels of awareness and sensitization of the advantages of land restoration among some,...
Smallholder farmers in Uganda are hit hardest by the effects of climate change. One of Dream International Agroforestry most important tasks is to provide trainings and advice on how smallholder farmers can adapt to climate change. By employing Sustainable Agriculture and Land Management methods, the farmers can continue to develop their farming methods, despite drought...
Differences in the roles and responsibilities of men and women in farm households are likely to influence their capacity to adapt to climate change as well as the choice of adaptation strategies. It is easy to see why: women are poorer because they earn less, have less-secure jobs, and are more dependent on the natural...
planting basins, green manuring, conservation agriculture (rotations, intercropping, mulching and reduced tillage) and agroforestry are among the most common climate- smart practices being promoted in Bunyangabu district to improve productivity, food availability and resilience to climate hazards.