#SexyTrees agroforestry, reforestation, and food forests

#SexyTrees was co-developed below the jungle canopy in the Colombian Amazon by Savimbo Inc., founded by Indigenous co-founders Jhony Lopez and Fernando Lezama alongside scientist Andrea Burbank. Savimbo has 104+ ecological project sites across 26 countries, most developed in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Brazil, and Mexico.

The Inga system was developed over 37 years by Dr. Mike Hands at the University of Cambridge and the Inga Foundation in Honduras. One hectare of Inga alley cropping produces approximately 40 tonnes of woody biomass per cycle, suitable for low-tech biochar production. The system contributes to 10 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is EUDR-compliant and immediately applicable in most Latin American humid tropical contexts.

Savimbo holds the world's only certified biodiversity credits, issued under the Indicator Species Biodiversity Methodology (ISBM) and using the Interoperable Biodiversity Unit (IBU). The #SexyTrees methodology is published open-access under CC BY 4.0. Indigenous chagra food forest systems — ancestral, place-based, and tended by elder women — are supported separately through agrobiodiversity markets that respect their unquantifiable cultural value.