With Livelihoods Funds

Upstream Lake Victoria, in Kenya, the Livelihoods Mount Elgon Project tackles simultaneously poverty, environmental degradation and sustainable supply chain. It involves 30 000 farmers and aims at restoring 20 000 ha through agroforestry. An innovative partnership, involving a private company and an international NGO, has been signed to implement this large scale project.

In Sumatra, Indonesia, restoring mangroves is of great importance. Natural barriers against the elements, these forests can also provide the people with sustainable business opportunities, therefore enhancing the livelihoods of many families.

In the Araku valley, spread over the territory of Adivasi people, the NAANDI Fundation has taken up a huge challenge… How can the carbon finance be used to rebuild a forest and solve nutrition issues ?

A 7’30” movie shot in the Gange’s delta, where the local NGO N.E.W.S and the Livelihoods Fund have undertaken a large scale mangrove reforestation program. Financed via the carbon economy, but carried out by the Sundarbans communities, this project aims at helping people to face the elements and protecting farmlands.

This short film tells the story of the Livelihoods Camp, that was hold in India… It was all about setting up co-working models to create sustainable carbon projects with high social and environmental values.