Income from Greenhouse Gas Sales is passed on to farmers and can help
them to buy better seed, become more financially secure, and plant and
maintain trees.
TIST
works to provide revenues to participants to help sustain themselves during
the dry season and embark upon a program that would enable residents to
reforest their land and replenish the soil. TIST has developed opportunities
for groups to sell Greenhouse Gas Credits from trees they are planting,
and create regular revenues for groups for their healthy trees.
TIST
provides quarterly payments to small groups on a per tree basis. In Tanzania
a typical group with 1,500 trees could earn the equivalent of a month's
wage over the course of a year from their trees. Quarterly payments as
act as an encouragement to the groups, but the trees also have significant
intrinsic economic benefits:
-
Fruit
and nuts produced
-
Bark,
which can be used to produce medicines
-
Shade,
protecting crops and families
-
Soil
improvement
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