DREAMNATURE developed an agroecology project named after “A FOODFOREST FOR US” to establish community-led regenerative farms that integrate native trees into food and cash crop farming system for (a) food, nutrition and health (b) income and employment (c) soil healthy (d) water retention and regulation (e) climate resilience and biodiversity conservation. These deliverables fall in the theme “for people and nature” bringing climate resilience, biodiversity conservation and livelihood. We train farmers establishing Mult-strata agroforestry farms (foodforest) using principles of syntropic agroforestry that mimic nature. Is a sustainable farming method inspired by a Swiss farmer in Brazil Ernest Gotsch bringing together perennial and annual plants together and is based on five principles, such as full (1) soil coverage (soil should not be naked), (2) plant diversification (plants help each other to grow), (3) stratification in respect of sunligh requirement for each plant, space as well as rotation age (time of harvest), (4) intensive management and succession in time.

The farming system has been tested in Tanzania through other stakeholders including APOPO Organization, in Mgeta division of Uluguru mountains and the demonstration plot at Sokoine University of Agriculture with experts from our organization Dreamnature. The farming system responds as promising solution from the lesson learned through baseline surveys conducted by team of Dreamnature in Ulanga district – Morogoro and that of Kibondo district – Kigoma region. 

PELUM Tanzania is contributing a grant of 30,000,000 TZS to pilot implementation, starting November 2025 to Dec. 2026 in the area involved in baseline surveys February 2025 in Ulanga district – Morogoro; such as Idunda, Chikuti, Ikungua, Igota and Kichangani. 

However, establishing Mult-strata sustainable farming system, careful

consideration must be kept on the selection of compatible trees to maximize
ecological impact in the farm (positive interaction between tree-crop
interface) and reduce as much as possible negative plant interaction such as
competition or allelopathic effect. It is very important also to consider
social acceptance by the community themselves if they connect to services or
products from respective trees under consideration. If we incorporate trees needed by people
themselves, rooted to their social cultural practice or material benefits will
make them readily available in their homestead from small farms including the
firewood, herbs, construction materials and other resources pressuring natural
forests.

With a dedicated team of forestry and agriculture experts; DREAMNATURE prioritizes native trees of high social, economic and ecological potentials for domestication and integration into agroforestry systems. With this approach, we support safeguarding endangered and threatened species and make native trees more accessible for sustainable use in farming and land restoration. We evaluate ethnobotany, relationship between people and plants through assessing Indigenous´ knowledge influencing preferences and attitudes related to native tree domestication, to foster their willingness to participate in native tree conservation and implement projects of native tree seeds production, propagation, and planting.

Landt Foundattion is supporting establishment of living class what we call demostration areas in Morogoro region, Mafuru Villege at 13 km from Morogoro Iringa highway from the entry point Sanga sanga Villege.  In this place you will find and learn how native trees of various potentials are intergrated in sustainable farming systems benefiting both people and nature. The following will be found 1. Native tree nursery to supportt land restoration initiatives and for intergrating in farming systems. 2. Sustainable agroforestry farm designs showing ecology relationship with high output of farm products and climate resilience. 3. Small land Restoration demostration showing how land recovery could be fastened to form climax forest, as we identify pioonere plants, plant species in respect to emvironmental conditon favoring the existence.