Fruit tree initiative

Growing fruit tree have multiple benefits for the individual, community and the world at large. They provide food, money and environmental benefits.  A fruit tree just like another tree provide clean air, reduce cost of energy and green jobs. In hot places, cooling system are used in offices which contribute to more emission of CO2. fruit tree can regulate the temperature hence reduction of CO2 emission. Fruit tree last longer as compared to other trees as their value is seen more in the fruit they continue providing other than in other products like charcoal, timber or firewood they would through being cut.

The project responds to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 on climate action, specifically on target thirteen o strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related hazards and natural disasters. The project also addresses other SDGs directly and indirectly;(poverty, no hunger, education, decent work and economic growth, good health and well-being) among others. Kenya also has a target of planting 15 billion tree by 2032, a move aimed at reducing green house emission, stopping and reversing disforested and restoring 5.1 million hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes through the African Landscape Restoration initiative.

Fruit tree initiative contribute to this target through development of fruit tree nurseries, fruit tree project in schools and institutions and targeting individual through training to substitute cosmetic tree with fruit trees.