Trees Are The Solution

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Trees Are The Solution is an advocacy initiative founded by Marc Zboch to help reverse deforestation in developing areas of the world.

Research shows how well managed, sustainable timber plantings can reduce environmental temperatures while increasing food production, humidity, and top soil preservation. Crops are planted in rows between trees. Roots remove soil salinity while stabilizing the water table so fresh water becomes more accessible. Fallen leaves add much needed nitrogen for the food crops. In remote areas, transportation challenges drive the cost of a bag of fertilizer to a price ten times what we pay in America. Intercropping is proving to transform agriculture productivity. Now that third world food cost are rising 40% annually, the need for sustainable agriculture has become urgent.

Marc Zboch and Trees Are The Solution, promote cloning and propagation techniques that produce faster tree growth. While taken for granted in the west, trees are becoming a scarce commodity for much of world. Trees are fuel for the poor. Those beginning to use petroleum now have to revert back to wood. Each day, over two billion people cook their meals over a wood fire. Most using three rocks and a pot, just as they have for thousands of years. Wood gathering has long been a source of income for women around the world.

Now faster growing fruit and shade trees provide incomes by preserving trees rather than destroying them. Villagers are being taught how to compress leaves and organic waste into fuel pellets that can be used to cook with. Each pellet is about the size of a small can of food and can efficiently heat an entire meal. Two people can produce hundreds of pellets a day without harming a single tree. In areas like Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda, we are seeing brutality at a level seldom witnessed in world history. These conflicts are fought over limited resources. Trees Are The Solution has been an advocate for promoting peace through self sufficiency. Help from the west is no longer charity, but self preservation. We now realize that weather patterns around the world are interrelated. Deforestation in one area can lead to drought conditions continents away.