Trees for the Future

A US-based NGO founded in 1989 and based in Bethesda, Maryland, that trains smallholder farming families in Senegal, Mali, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to plant multi-layered Forest Gardens that combine trees with food and cash crops, through a four-year training programme. It reports more than 63,000 farming families trained since 1989 and 350 million trees planted worldwide by April 2024. In February 2024 the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration named it a World Restoration Flagship, with a goal of restoring 229,000 hectares of drylands by 2030, and UNEP and FAO supported its 2025 Forest Garden Training Manual.