Win-win solution for forests, peopleA community leader points at a vast forest area villagers have preserved against the expansion of corn plantations in Mae Chaem district of Chiang Mai. Why then is this win-win solution only applied to some local areas, and not yet scaled up to a wider scale? It is urgent to turn to chemical-free agroforestry practices, which are widely recognised as a sustainable farming method, to restore degraded forests from monoculture. According to our SROI calculations, the Mae Chaem project is worth almost 177 million baht with the project investment at about 21 million baht. In other words, the Mae Chaem project generates around eight baht for every single baht invested to restore the forests through sustainable farming.

Source: Bangkok Post July 21, 2020 23:03 UTC