We are serious about monitoring and reducing tree loss to the minimum possible. The job doesn’t end when a tree sapling is planted but that is the start. Our team monitor all trees for several years until the community is ready for the handover stage.

In this blog post we explore how Mbedza monitors nearly 150,000 trees and the challenges of tree loss.

It’s one of the busiest times of the year for our environment team as they work with communities to distribute and plant 30,000 saplings. We are also celebrating the impact of our Tiyeni training and planning further training to improve food resilience.

Mbedza’s 2025 - 2026 environment programme for tree planting begins with the training and preparation for 6 tree nurseries this month.

We were able to select 6 communities for this task although many more are crying out for this intervention. Important lessons continue to be learned from previous programmes.