Assisted Natural Forest Regeneration

VisionHave restored up to 2M Ha of degraded rainforest with commensurate sustainable income streams for up to 5M local and indigenous people via the catalyst of high value sustainable forest vanilla farming. MissionLead the restoration of significant areas of degraded forest in Indonesia through supporting local and indigenous people with vanilla farming and ecology expertise, proving its effectiveness, researching the impact and consequences, and driving sustainable income streams through engagement with the principle global vanilla purchasers and leading brands. Objectives: • Demonstrate that growing vanilla is a better long term economic model for local people than depletion of virgin forest for palm oil production and the one-off short-term benefits from mining and logging. • Get scientific and corroborated proof that our model for forest vanilla farming both yields high quality, healthy and sustainably grown vanilla, is restorative for the forest, a benefit to local farmers and does not have significant unintended consequences. • Grow natural vanilla sales volumes from 1% of the market to 5% ( + 4% )• Reduce degraded forest in Indonesia from 6-11M Ha by -2M Ha.
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Keywords: renewables & environment