About the Dreamnature organization
DREAMNATURE ORGANIZATION (in the following: DREAMNATURE) was established on April 7th, 2022, to unlock the multiple potentials of native trees for sustainable development and a regenerative economy in Tanzania and beyond by integrating native trees in agroforestry initiatives and land restoration. As a registered NGO, we work at the intersection of native tree domestication and community empowerment to tackle viscous cycle of rural poverty, deforestation and soil degradation, major threats to both ecosystems and livelihoods. By conducting applied research, growing native trees and ensuring the involvement of local communities, for people and the planet.
Dreamnature was founded by Aron Katosho holding a proffession in Tropical forest science. The passion for him was to help his communities to the place where he was born and raised in Itaba village, Kigoma region – Tanzania. The organization is built in series of ideas connecting each other; The first idea was to domesticate Anisophyllea boehmii, because it is a native tree valued by local communities of Kigoma, for its highly nutritional and medicinal edible raw fruits, juice jam, and nuts; the most important is that its wood ashes are used as organic pesticides to corn in the farm and grains in the storage. The idea here is that there are more native trees with social/material services connected with tradional and cultural value with potentials of domestication and could be studied through ethnobotany (plant relation with people) as well scientific investigation of their contribution to the nutrition, herb and ecology for both people and nature.
The second Idea from the founder was that he belonged to the rural family, have that feeling of being poor, sometimes going to bed with empty stomach. he participated in cutting down trees with parents and siblings to sell firewood and charcoal to relieve the burden of poverty, unfortunately didn’t help, instead; saw how poverty was worsening, with the torture of climate change, soils were depleted, rivers were drying, pollinators disappearing, and families breaking apart. Young girls were resorting just to support their siblings, while men abandoned their families in search of livelihoods elsewhere. The idea is to develop a sustainable farming for food security, releive from poverty while helping climate resilience and save the trees.
“The interconnectedness of viscous cycle of poverty and deforestation tuned my mind to the vision of Dreamnature and founded this organization”.
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