Fes Enying

Project
aims

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Agroforestry for climate resilience

In partnership with Graine de Vie, the Fes Enying Plan Vivo project aims to strengthen food security for people living around Bankim, Mayo-Banyo, a department in the Adamawa region of Cameroon. The communities living near the transition of the Congo Basin rainforests to the Sahel savannah are vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. The project aims to implement climate resilient agroforestry to diversify the livelihood opportunities of participating communities. The project focusses on the establishment of communal gardens and home orchards.

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Project
impact

Community

During citizens councils, participatory land management maps are created. These ‘plan vivo’ maps become the input for designing the socioenvironmental developments in the area.

Biodiversity

All home orchards and communal gardens are planted with native or naturalized tree species.

Carbon

Atmospheric carbon is removed and stored in the soils and biomass of the project areas. Soil fertility and crop yields benefit from more soil organic matter.

Communal gardens

Communal gardens include a mix of native forestry and naturalized fruit trees to provide ecosystem services and benefits to the broader community.

Home orchards

Home orchards are established with fruit trees (such as mango and avocado) to deliver fruits for auto consumption and sale on the local market.

Community engagement

Via Plan Vivo committees at village level, communities get to decide their socio-ecological investments with 60% of the revenues of the carbon removal credits.

Projects
specs

Project type

Plan Vivo 5.0 - Agroforestry Project

Project area

The project works on two planting models: home orchards on individual smallholder fields, and communal gardens on community areas . The project plans to welcome more smallholders and communities over time, expanding based on community interest. The initial project areas are located in the villages Moinkoing and Bandam.

Main activities

The project raises and distributes tree seedlings based on the interest of the smallholder and communities. In communal gardens, planting is done through a mix of direct seeding and planting of seedlings. Strategies are in place to protect the newly planted areas from fire and livestock. The active involvement of the community in managing these communal gardens and individual home orchards ensures their long-term sustainability.

Plan Vivo stage

The project was launched in January 2023 with baselining. The PIN was approved in September 2023 and we expect Plan Vivo certification in November 2024.

PVC Type

Verified PVCs (after each verification)

Project aims