Tree Registration - LEAN Project
Registering on-farm trees to secure tree tenure for farmers under the EU co-funded Landscape Environmental Agility Across the Nation (LEAN) project.
Under the LEAN project, Rainforest Alliance needed trees registered on the farms of 3,000 farmers in the Sui River Landscape - securing tree tenure, encouraging farmers to plant and care for trees, and building a centralised database (via the Forestry Commission's RMSC T-Regis application) toward eventual certification.
GaiaCare was trained by RMSC, then trained and deployed enumerators across 51 communities in two districts under close regional supervision, capturing farmer profiles and tree-level data in the T-Regis app and synchronising it to the RMSC web platform.
655 farms visited and 6,355 trees geo-referenced; 488 farms synchronised to the national database. The exercise proved registration is feasible, and delivered a candid account of the operational and technical (T-Regis) fixes needed - insight the client can act on for any similar assignment.
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