We’ve sent investment offers to 14 companies. All have agreed, in principal, and we’re busy working through the contracts, KYC, and other details. As soon as the companies are signed, we’ll post details of them here. Stay tuned…
African leaders recognize that the degradation of 65% of the continent’s agricultural land threatens economic and environmental ruin for millions of farmers. At the same time, the effects of climate change – lower crop yields, erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts – are making life harder for millions of people. That’s why African countries have pledged to begin restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030 through AFR100.
Africa Trees is an investment holding company, investing in for-profit companies restoring land through agroforestry. Profitable companies whose business models are centered on growing tree (or bamboo) seedlings and not just planting the seedlings and hoping for the best, but creating sustainable value from those trees so that the local communities ensure the trees survive and thrive.
To start with we are focusing on three landscapes: the Greater Rift Valley of Kenya, the Cocoa Belt in Ghana, and the Lake Kivu & Rusizi River Basin in Rwanda, DRC, and Burundi.
