Liberia is home to one of West Africa's last remaining tropical rainforests, yet decades of civil conflict, poverty, and land degradation have pushed rural communities into a cycle of subsistence farming that accelerates deforestation. Small-scale farmers, particularly in rural Liberia, have long relied on slash-and-burn agriculture, a practice that destroys forest cover, depletes soil nutrients, and leaves families trapped in food insecurity and poverty.

TforTrees Liberia was born out of a conviction that trees and people can thrive together. The project works directly with smallholder farmers and rural communities to integrate agroforestry systems into their existing farmlands, combining food crops with timber, fruit, and nitrogen-fixing trees to restore degraded land while improving livelihoods.

The ecosystem we work in is both fragile and full of potential. Liberia retains approximately 40% of the Upper Guinean Forest, a globally significant biodiversity hotspot, but it remains under constant threat. Our farmers are the true stewards of this forest. By giving them the tools, seedlings, training, and market access they need, we transform them from agents of deforestation into champions of reforestation.

Our model is simple but powerful: trees pay. When farmers see that agroforestry generates more income than burning forest, conservation becomes a rational economic choice, not just an environmental obligation.