Finding the most effective ways to plant trees
Ecosystem Restoration Communities
Ecosystem Restoration Communities are repairing the earth by bringing people together to restore degraded ecosystems.
Scaling OUT is the fastest and most effective way to drive large-scale environmental restoration. With ecosystem degradation accelerating, relying solely on expert institutions to “Scale Up” solutions is not enough — we need billions of everyday people to take action. However, making expert knowledge widely accessible remains a challenge. As part of an EU-funded project aimed at scaling out ecosystem restoration and reforestation efforts across Europe, a group of local experts from five EU regions recently gathered in Spain’s rapidly desertifying Altiplano region at a workshop with the Ecosystem Restoration Foundation and More Trees Now/Meer Bomen Nu to exchange insights on reforestation and explore ways to spread this vital knowledge across the broader community where they work.
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Award Winning Environmental Management Practitioner. SLM, Climate-Smart Agriculture Development Planning, M&E and Project Management Specialist.
1 周This is such valuable information. Sometimes people get discouraged planting trees because they die. Of course they will die if planted at the wrong season, in the wrong agro-ecological zone for the Species, the size and shape of the hole, the origin of the seedling, and a whole lot of other 'inviting needs for survival' as you so well explain. Buying, selling or giving our trees should come with a capacity building responsibility. Even with suppliers, you will make a lot of profit if you take the responsibility of talking to your customers before you sell to them. Their trees will not die and the proverbial word of mouth will take its place. Communities will take pride in their trees and be only too glad to explain to their peers how their trees do not die.
Love to read about this and thank you so much for putting words to this idea of scaling out rather than scaling up. I was looking for a form of words that resonated with what I was seeing with the practices I work with and your article has put words on my thoughts!