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The Green Intelligence, Agroforestry In Nepal
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The Green Intelligence (GI) focuses on transitioning smallholder farmers in Nepal’s mid hills (1000-1800m altitude) from monocultural cropping, like corn, to agroforestry. By adopting polyculture cropping—integrating productive trees with agricultural species—farmers can enhance carbon storage (in woody biomass above- and below-ground), soil health, biodiversity, resilience, and economic opportunities. The species mix is tailored to the farmer’s needs, specific location (soil, altitude, sunlight), and market potential, allowing income generation while conserving biodiversity and promoting harmony between humans and nature.
This transition also creates more climate-resilient landscapes, increasingly crucial due to changing weather patterns. GI uses a mobile application to boost tree survival rates—a global challenge in tree plantation projects. This includes geo-tagging (tree and land pictures with GPS coordinates) for enhanced accountability and quality, along with providing tree advisory services and financial rewards to farmers for planting and maintaining trees. The project includes activities like species research, soil tests, farmer group formation, plantation training, mobile app training, and ongoing monitoring.
Matthijs van Rijn founded GI in 2021 to increase biodiversity and provide a more sustainable way of land use with the vision to make it mutual beneficial to humans and nature. The Green Intelligence team is a mix of nature enthusiasts located in The Netherlands (Europe), Kenya (Africa) and Nepal (Asia).
To date, trees have been planted by 43 smallholder farmers in Nepal. Of these farmers 27 are located in the Dhulikhel municipality in Nepal and 16 in Sunkhani. Over 7000 trees have been planted across 9.22 hectares by the farmers. The local tree species that have been planted are: Coffee, Avocado, Macadamia Nut, Lemon, Timur (Nepali Szechuan Pepper) and Tejpat (Bay Leaf). The agroforestry model is adopted by planting these fruit trees in a distance of 33m (22m for coffee) between other agricultural crops (e.g. Maize, Mustard, Turmeric, Ginger).