#SexyTrees pays smallfarmers and Indigenous communities directly to plant trees. Planting can occur in agroforestry, reforestation, or food forest plots. Applicants must own or manage land. Sites recieve a micropayment — starting with a simple, verifiable outcome: a living tree.
Across the humid tropics, the people with the most direct power over forest outcomes receive less than 1% of glob...
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#SexyTrees pays smallfarmers and Indigenous communities directly to plant trees. Planting can occur in agroforestry, reforestation, or food forest plots. Applicants must own or manage land. Sites recieve a micropayment — starting with a simple, verifiable outcome: a living tree.
Across the humid tropics, the people with the most direct power over forest outcomes receive less than 1% of global climate finance. Existing carbon markets are too slow, too opaque, and structurally designed around timelines that smallholder economies cannot afford. #SexyTrees flips this: $1 to plant a tree, $0.50 if it's alive at six months, $0.50 if it's alive at twelve months. One sentence, communicable verbally at any farmers' market on Earth.
The simplest technique for new agroforestry sites is Inga alley cropping — a rigorously field-tested system using native nitrogen-fixing Inga trees planted in rows, with food crops grown between them. It eliminates the need for slash-and-burn farming, produces mulch that regenerates soil permanently, and draws insects away from production crops within weeks.
However many sites have their own reforestation systems, and the protocol is flexible as long as the system meets basic parameters (more than 5 species in the plot, native species, attention to secondary benefits like soil, air, water, equity (food security), carbon, and biodiversity.
Plots that enroll can stop at reforestation, or continue on for recurring revenue from EUDR-compliant crops, organic certifications, and carbon, biodiversity, or water credits once those credit markets mature.
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