Community Forests International

[2] Traditional agriculture, charcoal production and population expansion have left natural forest systems largely depleted across the island of Pemba, Tanzania.While living in Pemba, Schnurr worked in partnership with Mbarouk Mussa Omar, a local activist to organize gardeners, tree growers and foresters in order to fight land degradation and to empower communities to sustainably manage their own resources in an economically viable way.[3] Since 2007, CFI in partnership with CFP has launched 14 community-owned projects in Tanzania, operated by 1,800 locals, 70 percent of them women.The land belonged to Clark Phillips and Susan Tyler, a couple who had been farming organically and restoring the forest since the early 70s.The property boasts more than 70 acres of certified organic farmland; in its early years Phillips and Tyler hosted Green Party MP Elizabeth May.
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