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Distribution and planting of 51,000 saplings to marginal farmers in Lalitpur, UP, 2017 FIGHTING HUNGER, #FruitTreesChangeLives POVERTY & CLIMATE CHANGE BY PLANTING & NURTURING FRUIT TREES Conserving life, planting trees

Connecting the dots between the billion who cause climate change and the billion who will sleep hungry tonight….. Conserving life, planting trees #FruitTreesChange2Lives

Our one and a half million young trees are producing over three million tons of oxygen annually By 2020, they will start providing a minimum of 15 million tons of fruit annually Conserving life, planting trees #FruitTreesChange3Lives

The SGI Story: Aims and Objectives 1 Sustainable Green Initiative (SGI) was set up as a social enterprise in 2013 with the objective of planting mostly fruit trees to fight hunger, poverty, and climate change. 2 SGI distributes, plants, and maintains fruit tree saplings for one-three years in community lands, homesteads of marginal famers, government schools and campuses, orphanages, old-age homes etc. Distribution and planting of 51,000 saplings to marginal farmers in Lalitpur, UP, 2017 4

SGI’s planting activities address SEVEN of the 17 SDGs set by the UN 5

The current situation of farmers worldwide Marginal farmers have With less yield from smaller land holdings, farmland, the world’s which yield less produce food growers face the threat of food insecurity and less money Women and children Water sources suffer from drying up in many malnutrition parts 6

The solution… Plant & nurture fruit trees with small and marginal farmers Conserving life, planting trees #FruitTreesChange7Lives

SGI’s working model for small farmers 1 4 SGI provides quality, 6 fast-yielding fruit SGI plants fruit To choose SGI has evolved a unique trees in villages marginalised farmers saplings and supports way of working with the and in rural and whose food security the process by community to generate semi-urban areas. We have impacted needs are to be providing fertilisers, local employment, 6,500 villagers so addressed, SGI sharing technical increase the green cover, liaises with village knowledge, and far encourage sustainable heads monitoring the trees farming practices, and 3 sarpanch/pradhan for twelve months creating environmentally- conscious populace, in the The planting takes and/or NGOs SGI ensures complete form of Vriksharakshaks place in financial and economic 5 homesteads, support to partners, fallow land and covering the entire activity extra farmland of -- sourcing and planting farmers fruit and fodder saplings, encouraging sustainable 2 organic farming, nurturing the sapling for 12 months through dedicated Vriksharakshaks 8

Planting methodology Pre-planting Distribution Planting Post-planting Monitoring Locally- Saplings Process includes Periodic Monitoring of sourced good distributed to organic support in the saplings done on quality fast- form of organic a monthly basis yielding fruit identified fertilisers such as marginalised vermi-compost, fertilisers is by and fodder provided, as is Vriksharakshaks tree saplings farmers neemkhal organic pest readied for based and mychorriza control such as to ensure a on demand and as needed. A survival rate planting assessment unique method neemkhal, of deep-root, tobacco and of 80%. drip irrigation neem oil. Compensatory system is put in replanting is done place quarterly. 9

Vriksharakshaks: The vital link in community outreach Explain ways in which Sensitize a population that more fruit and fodder was inherently a green trees will help villagers warrior and did sustainable farming, to go back to nurturing and planting trees and minimise use of chemical pesticide & fertilisers. Educating an entire Better survival rate of populace about green tree saplings for SGI cover, climate change, 10 protecting the environment and creating environment activists

SGI: Outcomes and Achievements 7 15,00,000+ 6,500+ of the 17 SDGs set by the trees planted & farmers we have worked United Nations. nurtured/nurturing in 13 with. Mostly from regions districts across nine states - reeling under the impact of Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, severe drought (Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh) and poverty Haryana, Karnataka, (Mewat region of Haryana). Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. 11

We partner with some of the biggest brands globally 12

SGI’s strategy for self-sustaining villages Encourage Inspire and educate Empower women to sustainable villagers to become protect and nurture organic environmentally their own forests farming conscious and techniques protect trees Encourage Find community-based Strategise ways to villages – events to encourage help villages especially in semi-urban area planting of fruit saplings, add value to their – to segregate such as weddings, fruit produce by waste and set childbirth, setting up fruit up composting death and birth preservation units units anniversaries of parents, and so on. 13

SGI: Three-year Impact Goals 5.000.000 50,000 4,000 6,500 10% 2% 3,00,000 500 2017 2020 2017 2020 2017 2020 2017 2020 Villagers Fruit trees Green cover Increase in medicinal & (hectares) aromatic plants 14

“The best friend on earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth.” - Frank Lloyd Wright Contact: [email protected] 15