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Poor rural families in Burkina Faso need cash income to meet basic needs. This is why TREE AID launched the Village Tree Enterprise programme, to help villagers make money from the multitude of products that grow on trees but now the villagers have a new desire to expand their forest resources to secure the future of their fledgling enterprises.
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Over the past 2 years this project has helped these 11 communities to develop business plans for 60 different enterprises, based on tree products such as shea butter, baobab fruits, forest honey and seasoning from the fruit of the dawadawa tree. All these products are available from their local trees and forests, but now the villagers have a new desire to expand their forest resources to secure the future of their fledgling enterprises. In due course some income generated by the enterprises themselves will be re-invested in natural resource management. However, for the present these communities need support to develop their forests and trees. The village entrepreneurs have already identified essential investments in local forest resources as part of the enterprise planning process. At community meetings they have reviewed and agreed how many tree seedlings, and of which species, need to be raised. The individuals and groups in the community who will be planting these, where natural forest needs to be regenerated and what specific skills and knowledge they need to acquire to make this happen has also been agreed. They have also recognised the need for changes in land management practice to provide the right support and incentives to sustain this investment in their trees and forests. This project will be helping them to deliver on these plans. Budget for Fada N'Gourma: £139,098 Budget for Barsalogho: £103,136 Budget for Parc de Po: £105,971 Project duration: 2007-2010