By Ashley Capps | Project Leader
A Well-Fed World’s Plants-4-Hunger program funds plant-based feeding, farming and disaster relief food aid projects around the world that feed more people using far less land, water, and energy, while protecting animals, ecosystems, and the climate. Our dedicated Food Trees for Climate and Hunger Fund, which you generously support, is a crucial project of Plants-4-Hunger.
Food trees uniquely address the triple crises of global hunger, climate change, and biodiversity loss by providing food and income, carbon sequestration, and wildlife habitat, while reducing deforestation, which, globally, is overwhelmingly driven by animal-based food production.The UN says conserving forests and planting more trees could provide nearly one third of urgent climate mitigation needed in the next ten years, while forest-based food systems “are associated with increased fruit and vegetable consumption and increased dietary diversity,” leading to improved nutrition and health outcomes.
One of the standout tree planting projects our Food Tree Fund supports is Green Generation Initiative (GGI) in Kenya. Founded in 2016 by the young Kenyan environmentalist Elizabeth Wathuti, Green Generation Initiative is a non-profit, youth-led organization creating a generation of ecologically conscious individuals by educating and empowering children and communities to love nature through experiential learning and on-the-ground, nature-based solutions.
GGI runs programs focused on food forest planting and care to help schools in Kenya simultaneously instill environmental values in students, while improving food security and nutrition and proactively addressing the climate crisis. Since its inception, GGI has planted more than 30,000 native fruit trees in more than 35 schools across Kenya.
With your continued support, we can keep empowering the incredible work of Green Generation Initiative and other groups who are planting trees to feed people, shelter animals, and cool the climate. Thank you for supporting our vision for a world that is healthy, well-fed, and kind...all at the same time.
Yours for more food, and less harm—
A Well-Fed World
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