Meet the farmers helping to reforest Timor-Leste

Meet the farmers helping to reforest Timor-Leste

The WithOneSeed community forestry programme in Baguia, Timor-Leste, began in 2009;

It establishes village-based plant nurseries to grow seedlings and then pays small landholders annual incentives to reforest their land by planting and maintaining the trees;

More than 980 subsistence farmers are now involved and 200,000 trees have been planted to date, earning the Baguia village economy more than $400,000 from the sale of carbon credits.



High in the mountains of Timor-Leste, a group of subsistence farmers earn an income by planting trees, leading the way to a future of self-determination for their families and local communities.

The WithOneSeed community forestry programme began in Baguia, Timor-Leste, in 2009 and is the only Gold Standard certified community carbon offset programme in the region.



As a community social enterprise, WithOneSeed establishes village-based plant nurseries to grow seedlings and then pays small landholders annual incentives to reforest their land by planting and maintaining the trees. More than 980 subsistence farmers are part of the programme, which enables them to generate an income while taking real action on climate change.

WithOneSeed makes four commitments:



to address environmental degradation through community reforestation;

to build village economies through payment to small landholder farmers