What is a micro-forest? - AKDN
At Nzasa Secondary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Madam Lusajo Chanya has been teaching her students in the one-year-old micro-forest planted on the school grounds.
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We have seen honeybees coming back to farms, and butterflies and birds coming back to villages because of the micro-forests we’ve planted.

Naveen Patidar, CEO of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, India

We need to support marginalised women with limited natural and financial assets to grow micro-forests. That is where the power of micro-forests comes in: they can target gender inequality as well as environmental breakdown.

Humaira Daniel, Climate Change Science Specialist, AKF