Partners in Reforestation

Spades’ regreening partners include many of the world’s largest growers. As a network, they already regrow most of the trees globally, over 250 million per year. Nearly one billion trees have already been planted and restored by one of our nonprofit partners.

Our partners are organizations that understand that developing economies have their own inherent risk. They also keenly understand the importance of collaborating with communities and delivering co-benefits. By partnering with organizations that employ people living in extreme poverty to produce, plant, and protect tens of millions of trees every month, together we can create new opportunities for them to achieve economic self-sufficiency, improved health, and education.

These organizations know the local face of communities and governments, smallholder farmers and pastoral peoples, and the geography of the landscape. They have deep local relationships to advance and support projects to accelerate regreening to benefit people, the environment, and economics. Their expert knowledge and unique skills include:

• Growing techniques: Agroforestry, sustainable agriculture, Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR), Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)
• Local community needs: Renewable fuel, sustainable wood stocks, fruits, nuts, medicinals, oils
• Ecosystems: Arid land solutions, biodiverse forest habitats, blue carbon, sea trees, grasslands
• Landscape restoration: Natural landscapes destroyed by deforestation, mining, disasters, and climate change
• Carbon offsets

Ecofit™ biotech takes the guesswork out of tree-growing success. It has been laboratory tested across over 400 species in 30 ecosystems globally, including forest types in swampland, moist forests, dry deciduous, dry savannahs, and arid and semi-arid lands – at elevation and sea level. Ecofit decodes the environmental and ecosystem strengths and weaknesses of plants to help prevent plant failures. Results delivered a correlation coefficient averaging 0.95. Trials on other plants are showing similar promising results.

The presence of forests allows for the maintenance of human health, the preservation of indigenous cultures, timber plantings, agroforestry, microclimates, carbon sequestration and storage, water and food sources, and many other benefits, which makes Ecofit crucial for large-scale reforestation projects.

Spades supports regreening efforts globally with:

• Consulting and planning
• Financing and transparency
• Project management and leadership

Our company is proud to be a part of Initiative 20×20, a country-led effort designed to transform the dynamics of land degradation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Launched at COP 20 in Lima in 2014, the initiative supports the Bonn Challenge and the New York Declaration on Forests, global commitments to restore 350 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2030.