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💡 Project spotlight! 📢 “If you wish to achieve financial stability through farming, I encourage you to plant at least one acre of mahogany," says Pravin Atmaram Jadhav, a smallholder farmer in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Jadhav is part of the Mahogany Plantation in India Project, which has transformed the lives of 4,000 farmers and led to the planting of 3.1 million mahogany trees. ✅ Registered with Verra's Verified Carbon Standard Program, the project implements Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) activities. The trees remove carbon from the air, and for each tonne of carbon removed, a carbon credit is issued and sold on the global voluntary carbon market. For every carbon credit sold, the farmers receive 70% of the profit, which supplements their income. Before Mahogani Vishwa Agro Limited developed the project, smallholder farmers in many districts across India were struggling to support themselves and their families through traditional farming methods. 🌱 Now, participating farmers are able to provide for their families through practicing sustainable agroforestry across numerous small land parcels. By planting mahogany trees alongside their crops, the farmers experience increased crop yields, improved soil quality, and enhanced biodiversity preservation, among other benefits. The project also contributes to 13 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, working to reduce poverty, eliminate hunger, promote good health and well-being, and much more. ➡️ Learn more about this incredible project and the farmers whose lives it has changed: https://bit.ly/4hpSOc4 #Verra #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #Agroforestry #SustainableDevelopment