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Stefan Maard | 14.11.11

Stefan Maard | 14.11.11. A low-input agroforestry cultivation system is at the core of our partnership with smallholders. Forestry Shelterbelt Zone. The system has a 1 ha agroforestry zone with rows of fast-growing leguminous trees/shrubs and alleys planted with annual crop rotations

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Stefan Maard | 14.11.11

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  1. Stefan Maard | 14.11.11

  2. A low-input agroforestry cultivation system is at the core of our partnership with smallholders Forestry Shelterbelt Zone • The system has a 1 ha agroforestry zone with rows of fast-growing leguminous trees/shrubs and alleys planted with annual crop rotations • This is surrounded by a 1 ha forestry shelterbelt zone that contains indigenous trees and Pongamia oilseed trees • The system involves a mix of multi-purpose crops & trees, incl. cassava, cowpea, soyabean, sorghum, ground nut, lucaena, pigeonpea, pongamia and native tree species Rotation 1 Agroforestry Zone Rotation 2 Rotation 3 www.cleanstarmozambique.com

  3. Rural benefits • Higherincomes • Greaterfoodsecurity • Improvednutrition • Increasedresilience • Forestconservation • Land restoration • Urban benefits • Cleanenergy • Improvedhealth • Lowercostenergy* • Improvedquality of life Key benefits

  4. The venture will achieve profitability in 2014 and then expand in Mozambique & beyond by end of 2011 by end of 2014 2015+ (not modeled) • 500 farmers planted • 2 community-level pre-processing centres • 2m litre Ethanol cooking fuel plant commissioned • Stove manufacturing & assembly started in Maputo • 500 cook stove customers in a Maputo neighborhood • ~$5m invested total • 3,000 farmers planted • 7 community-level pre-processing centres • 20m litres of clean cooking fuel sold per annum • Farmer household income increased 3x from baseline • 80,000 urban households using clean cookstoves • 320,000 t CER per annum • 4,000 ha of avoided forest destruction per annum • 2.5 million trees planted in forest belts (3,000 ha total) • ~$15m invested total • 15,000 farmers planted in current area of central Mozambique • Agroforestry system replicated in Inhambane & Nampula provinces • Stove market share expanded to 40% (160,000 households) • Ethanol cooking fuel production capacity matched to demand • Cooking solution launched in other sub-Saharan African cities • Potential for several hundred million dollars of investment leveraged with local sources Targets have been set to demonstrate the commercial viability, sustainability and scalability of the venture by 2014 for a total initial investment of $15 million

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