{"title": "Bees and Trees Uganda", "logoImg": "bafkreidcl3jjnsfskep2z4odv6xvqmkdasybls32pucna7a2vyszmickvu", "website": "https://beesandtreesug.org/", "createdAt": 1729682524608, "credentials": {}, "description": "Bees and Trees is a youth-led social enterprise that motivates small-holder farmers to restore their degraded land through beekeeping, planting of indigenous trees and coffee growing.\n\nIn the Mt. Elgon sub region, farmers have long believed that trees are space-hungry competitors to their crops, and they therefore cut down the trees to allow their crops to grow. This, however, has led to deforestation & unsustainable agricultural practices, causing serious biodiversity loss, soil degradation, landslides, and changes in the micro-climate.\n\nBees and Trees Uganda therefore  incentivizes smallholder farmers to reintegrate trees on their farms using agroforestry principles, giving the farmers beehives, coffee seedlings & indigenous trees at no cost. We also plant fruits that contribute to food security and nutrition in the community.\n\nThe incentives for farmers are compelling; the flowers from the trees we plant nourish the bees, the bees generate honey, and we offer a ready market for the honey and coffee, adding value and selling the products to final consumers. This creates an\nadditional revenue stream for the smallholder farmers, a safety net during crop failure periods.\n\nOur work contributes to mitigation of the rampant climate related disasters in this region like landslides and soil erosion. The reintroduction of trees leads to  landscape restoration, fortifies on-farm biodiversity and improves soil fertility.\nThe bees, nature’s tireless workers, contribute to food production and ecological balance\n", "logoImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "bees_hope"}