Tree Reflection

We advance climate-friendly rural development through innovative approaches to sustainable farming, forestry and fisheries in tropical regions around the world.

Our Mission

Climate change, forest loss, and the global shortage of new arable land are among the most urgent challenges that humanity is facing. The ability of human societies to meet these inter-connected challenges with effective, large-scale solutions over the next 10 to 20 years will influence the levels of human suffering through hunger and malnutrition and the capacity of the Earth to sustain life for centuries to come.

The Great Environmental Challenges

  • Achieving Land, Water & Food Security

    Increases in food prices since 2007 have driven hundreds of millions of poor people into hunger, feeding civil unrest. The trend towards higher food prices, which is likely to continue for decades, is a reflection ...

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  • Reducing Tropical Deforestation

    Rising food prices and the scarcity of new farmland in the US and Europe are helping to drive agricultural and livestock expansion into the Tropics. Tropical forests are ...

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  • Stabilizing the Climate

    The world’s best science concludes that our climate is changing through human activities that release CO2 and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Farming, forestry, and livestock production emit nearly one ...

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