Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world with an average income by inhabitant of US $260 per year.
With your support, our objective is to plant more than 5,000,000 Jatropha trees in the high plateau region in the next two years.
Soils in this area are particularly acid and lack mineral elements, which mean they are not suitable for food producing agriculture on a large scale.
This zone has no special value regarding biological diversity and only rustic plants such as Jatropha can prosper in the current ecological conditions.
Moreover, this is a low density population area, highly downgraded by massive deforestation and its consequences, the worst one being soil erosion.
