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PfI’s FarmTreeTool records Plot Development« Everybody Can Grow Trees and Earn »

Frank van Schoubroeck Ph.D.; [email protected]

15 December, 2014

PfI works on Agroforestry: “Everybody Can Grow Trees and Earn”

>EVERYBODY => Smallholders, Men, Women, Youth, Pastoralists, Urban people, Companies

>CAN GROW TREES => each group, has opportunities to care for trees

>AND EARN => People as an individual should benefit from growing trees

Everybody can grow trees and earn

• ALL work for home consumption + markets• As a general rule: More People, More Trees

Women prefer Agroforestry-Horticulture Gardens

Men, Youth prefer wood lots, live fences

Pastoralists prefer systems with-animals

For example: Mali – Farmers manage Agroforestry Gardens. BUT have weak market linkages, and no credit options; so gardens are static

Some farmers manage to develop their Agroforestry gardens into vibrant enterprises

Subsistence Make money More money

Business Planning will allow farmers to invest in productive sustainable Agroforestry Gardens

>Existing loan schemes are short-term>With guarantees Credit Institutions might develop longer-term

schemes>Islamic Loans allow for longer term joint investor-entrepreneur

linkages

The Business Model Canvas helps to design Agroforestry-based Enterprises

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*The Business Model Canvas organises QUALITATIVE and QUANTITATIVE aspects

The FarmTreeTool documents QUANTITATIVE aspects

Feasibility Studies document QUALITATIVE aspects

The FarmTreeTool is an Agroforestry Business Planning procedure

>Through five steps, the tool underpins mixed economic-subsistence Enterprise Development Plans

Data Input

Data Base

Planning Options

Calcula-tions

Out-put

FarmTreeTool specifications

>Requirements:• Must work online AND offline• Must run on every computer• Must be an improvement over Excel-sheet

>Our tool can do this and more!

Vision Regional Data Set Farm Plans PfI Services Cases About

Welcome

The FarmTreeTool helps Men, Women, Young Entrepreneurs to assess the balance of investments and benefits from Agroforestry-Based Enterprises

After creating a Regional Data Set, you can develop Farm Plans that allow smallholder farmers to develop a “best mix” of trees, crops and animals and apply for loans for investments

The FarmTreeTool – Home PageEverybody Can Grow Trees and Earn

*The FarmTreeTool works with a two-step data entry that lead to a Business Plan

Data Input

Data Base

Planning Options

Calcula-tions

Out-put

• Then: design a Farm Enterprise by selecting Production Options

• First: enter Agroforestry Systems data – Investments (planting, harvesting) and Benefits (consumption, sale)

• Last: generate a Business Plan for individuals with an Agroforestry-Based Enterprise

• Next: describe an existing Farm by selecting Existing Production

The FarmTreeTool Regional Data Set consists of agronomic, social and market data

>Step 1: Agronomists collect data at Regional Level

Out-put

Calcula-tions

Farm ID & Planning Options

Regional Data Set

Data Input

• Trees, crops, animals – Initial, Recurrent Investments in techniques, labour, monetised; Production in volume, monetised

• Labour: men, women, specialist – time, monetised• Technology & Processing – Monetised• Prices of Products

Vision Regional Data Set

Farm ID and Plans PfI Services Cases About

Create Regional Data Set Create Economic Regime

Trees

Crops

Animals

Labour

Technology

Processing

Market Prices

*The FarmTreeToolEverybody Can Grow Trees and Earn

The FarmTreeTool has a DATABASE specific per Agro-Ecological Region

>Data Base for storage and retrieval of data – based on an on-line system

Out-put

Calcula-tions

Farm ID & Planning Options

Regional Data Set

Data Input

Storage & Retrieval data

The Regional Data Set allows entrepreneurs to CHOOSE production options

>Entrepreneurs indicate their EXISTING enterprise and and outline a DESIRED way to expand production

Out-put

Calcula-tions

Farm ID & Planning Options

Regional Data Set

Data Input

Entrepreneurs select production options• Choice of trees/crops/animals /

processing activities / labour services / Technology to boost production

Farmers indicate their Identity• Plot location, size; Family composition,

men, women, youth labour available• Present trees/crops/animals /

processing activities / labour / Technology

Vision Regional Data Sets

Enterprise Plans PfI Services Cases About

Create Family Enterprise PlanSelect Farm Profile Enterprise Plan

Create Family Profile

Print … Plot Plot

Trees Trees

Crops Crops

Animals Animals

Technology Technology

Processing Processing

*The FarmTreeToolEverybody Can Grow Trees and Earn

Entrepreneur Options allow the FarmTreeTool to calculate in-kind and monetised time series

>The FarmTreeTool aggregating protocol transforms data categories into cost/return TIME SERIES for entreprise-level balances

Data Input

Data Base

Planning Options

Calcula-tions

Out-put

Time Series Calculations consist of• Existing capital• Inital investments in labour, money• Recurrent investments month-wise for two years; year-wise for year 3-40• Yields, monetised yields, biodiversity / employment / carbon / etc.• Addition across categories Investments, Trees/Crops/Animals, Labour

The FarmTreeTool provides summarised investment & production data – for the REGION and for Enterprises

>The FarmTreeTool presents (1) general DATABASE key data; combined into (2) individual Enterprise Business Plan + socio-economic situation

Data Input

Data Base

Planning Options

Calcula-tions

Out-put

Outputs consist of• Input: Database content - Location• Input: Individual entrepreneurs’ choices on investment & production• Calculations: economic indicators per enterprise• Individual Enterprise Business Plan – in combination with qualitative information

Example Database Output: Analysis of the tree species of Mr Keita, Kita, Mali

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

-5,000

0

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000Bilan par arbre spec par ha: FCFA '000

Mangier (non greffé) Mangier (greffé)

Papaya Oranger

Guavier Baobab feuilles

Example: AFJ Garden of Dogondoutchi in Niger

Example: output: economic indicators

201241275

4130641334

4136541395

4142641456

4148741518

4154841579

4160941640

4167141699

4173041760

4179141821

4185241883

4191341944

4197442005

4203642064

4209542125

4215642186

4221742248

4227842309

42339

XOF -15,000.00

XOF -10,000.00

XOF -5,000.00

XOF 0.00

XOF 5,000.00

XOF 10,000.00

XOF 15,000.00

Cumulative Balance (3 years)

Month - Year

Cum

ulati

ve C

ash

Flow

(100

0 XO

F) Valley of Death

Initial investments

Set-up & Growing crops

Successful product launch

Payback Period, Operational Business

Successful Business

The FarmTreeTool Everybody Can Grow Trees and Earn

Contact us to learn more:Partners for Innovation (Amsterdam Office)T: +31 (0)20 620 05 11

Or send an e-mail to our expertFrank van Schoubroeck Ph.D.f.van.schoubroeck [ at ] partnersforinnovation.com