The project entitled Bagbwe Agro- forestry and Cashew Project? will be implemented in two sections in Ngalu Bagbwe Chiefdom in Bo District, Sierra Leone. The project being proposed, aims to build the capacity of farmers to address the problems, fuel wood, timber, fodder and other non-timber forest products while halting and reversing the trend of the forest loss and related environmental and Land degradation in the chiefdom promoting vegetable and fruit tree growing and agro-forestry systems on already degraded land both community owned and private the organization will embarked on building the capacity of local farmers in tree planting and Agro- Forestry using cashew nut as the main tree crop and other tree crops like oil palm, citrus, mangoes etc. The organization will also train farmers to establish community and private woodlots for fuel wood supply in for the communities and marketing purposes. This will help these people to improve their potential to increase food security, poverty alleviation, environmental conservation and sustainable livelihoods strategy, even though fruit growing and agro-forestry practices are currently a relatively low-key economic activity in Sierra Leone as a whole.
Gender mainstreaming will be at the centre of the project implementation strategy, as women suffer a lot in the face of Environmental degradation and water shortage. Women groups in these communities will be trained in the wood lot management for home consumption and also commercial purposes. They will also be trained in simple waste management i.e. the use kitchen wastes (Bio- degradable) into compost for vegetable production. The involvement of community children at school level is also at the centre of the project for the simple reason that they the future leaders of the community and the country as a whole. So capturing them young is important.