In Tanzania, 80% of rural population relies on utilization of natural resources to sustain their livelihood, tree products being among them. We are grateful seeing farmers practicing sustainable tree harvesting adopted from our facilitation sessions. Beside cutting down of trees, a large number of them die due to poor harvesting methods of different parts such as roots, barks, branches, for different uses like medicines, fodder, construction poles, fuelwood etc.

In our regreening programs where we engage farmer and pastoralist to practice Kisiki Hai, we also trained them how to sustainably harvest different parts of trees. In this way farmers have been able to grow trees while sustainably utilizing them. This acts as a mean to promote stewardship of trees which is fundamental for communities stability and growth.