Environmental Sustainability

WithOneSeed, we're working for environmental sustainability. The initiative provides a unique opportunity to help move Timor Leste from and aid based economy to an enterprise-based economy. This opportunity is afforded due to the need for the developed world to move from a carbon-based economy to clean-energy-based economies. Third world economies like Timor Leste can develop viable enterprises based on carbon capture and market these services globally.

WithOneSeed has three sustainable impacts:

1. Contribute to climate change adaptation and carbon emissions abatement
2. Create a sustainable livelihood based on agroforestry as an integrated approach by combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock to improve soil quality, increase groundwater supplies and boost wildlife numbers
3. Bring about long-term social, economic, technological and environmental benefits to subsistence farming communities. Women and children are at the core of these communities and their participation is essential to community sustainability.  Providing a future sustainable business opportunity in rural areas is of particular benefit to the next generation.

WithOneSeed is particularly relevant for Australian's because it provides an opportunity for Australian citizens and organisations to contribute to offsetting their carbon footprint through village-based reforestation initiatives in Timor Leste.