Hurricane Melissa took the breadfruit, ackee and fruit trees that fed Western Jamaica's small farms. We are replanting them, farm by farm, with the families who own the land — and building the nursery, training and market that keep the harvest coming.
Each enrolled household receives around fifty climate-resilient food trees — breadfruit first, alongside breadnut, ackee, avocado, mango, coconut and cocoa — plus the training to establish them, a producer group to belong to, and a guaranteed floor price at the Savanna-la-Mar aggregation and processing centre.
1,000 farming households in Westmoreland, Hanover, St James and St Elizabeth. 50,000 trees on about 400 hectares over three years. A central nursery and two satellite nurseries.
5,000 farmers and 250,000 trees, delivered with RADA and aligned to Jamaica's climate-resilient agriculture programme, with the processing centre running as a farmer-owned business.
Replication across CARICOM states that lost tree crops to the same storms, designed with the Caribbean Development Bank.
CRM Jamaica Group holds leases on two parcels of former sugar land at Shrewsbury, in the Roaring River and Petersfield area of Westmoreland — 35 and 39 acres, leased from SCJ Holdings Limited, the Government of Jamaica's land-management company. These parcels are being transferred to the charity as its founding contribution and will host the central nursery, the demonstration farm and the first commercial plantings.
These numbers come straight from this site's sign-up register and are updated every time someone registers. When funding is secured and planting begins, trees planted, survival counts and payments to farmers will be published here too.
| Register | |
|---|---|
| — | farming households registered for Phase I |
| — | acres of farmland offered for planting |
| — | trees these households are in line to receive (50 per farm) |
| — | funders and partner organisations in conversation |
| — | government agencies engaged |
| — | individuals offering to sponsor trees, volunteer or share skills |
Every dollar has one of four jobs. The charity publishes its budget lines, its audited accounts and the price it pays farmers.
Households farming half an acre to five acres with secure tenure or written landholder consent, prioritising farms damaged by Melissa, female-headed households and farmers under 35. Selection is reviewed by a steering committee that includes RADA and a farmer representative.
Grant funds sit in segregated accounts, audited every year by an independent firm. Any work done by companies connected to the charity's directors is disclosed and approved by the steering committee at arm's length.
Trees planted and surviving, hectares under agroforestry, household food security and income, jobs held by women and young people, and carbon stored — all against baselines taken before planting.
Published as they are finalised. Ask for anything not yet listed.
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