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Land and water management
in Africa’s drylands.
Gloucester University, September 2014
Vision:To replace poverty in the African drylands with thriving, self-reliant communities
Mission:To help communities unlock the potential of trees…
…to fight poverty
and protect the
environment
TREE AID’s work in 4 key areas:
Enterprise Development
& Trade
Food Security & Nutrition
Forest Governance
Agroforestry &
Natural Resource Management
supports villagers to
build thriving and
sustainable futures
for themselves and
their landscapes.
Africa’s drylands are home to 350 million people. More than 130 million of these people live in rural villages,
in chronic hunger and on the constant edge of a food crisis. These are the communities TREE AID works with.
Poverty and the environment are often tightly
linked. Poverty limits the choices of poor people
so they are often forced to over-exploit their
environment just to survive.
Land Management
Water Management
Trees are increasingly recognised as an essential
asset for poor people.
Trees help to build resilience to the impacts of
climate change: freak weather; drought; crop failure; hunger
With TREE AID’s help dryland forests can provide a
safety net for the poor: trees are a sustainable
resource that offer a pathway out of poverty