Project Kenge aims to deliver a highly impactful Organic Symbiotic Regenerative Agroforestry and Reforestation model to be implemented across the DRC.

The initial pilot is being implemented on an 80k-ha plot of land situated east of Kinshasa with the aim of rolling out across 1 million hectares.

Forest villages with a community centre, training centre, office, school, medical centre, a cooperative, nursery and organic fertiliser and soil remediator factory will be built.

The hybrid model integrates the local communities as key stakeholders who receive a fixed income, a smallholding for cash crop production and land for subsistence farming with the necessary infrastructure to support their success.

The project will create large permanent carbon sinks by planting trees for CO2 sequestration. It will also implement regenerative agroforestry systems using nitrogen-fixing trees planted in symbiosis with crops to fix nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil optimizing yield and providing a continuous supply of organic nutritional foods.

Conservation and wildlife corridors will be created connecting forests, rivers, and adjacent lands enabling animals including elephants, buffalos & hartebeest to migrate between rivers and native untouched forests and restore swamplands/riparian zones.

The project will create jobs & provide income to local communities through sustainable harvesting of forest resources & agriculture products: crops (cassava, maize, cowpea), fruits (cocoa, mango, avocado, banana), nuts (cashew nuts, almonds, cola, nutmeg) and bi-products (honey, gum arabica, pods).

Co-op's set-up to provide tools, materials, and infrastructure, training & support to improve skills, natural resource management & agricultural production techniques, access to logistics & supply chain networks particularly helping female smallholders & subsistence farmers.

Through the cooperatives, these female smallholders will be integrated into local & global supply chains, increasing employment, revenues, and subsequent welfare in the DRC.

Current Ecosystem

Degraded Forest Savannah mosaic land. Tree felling in the DRC doubled between 2015 and 2019. Apart from causing a depletion of resources and biodiversity, this has led to lost habitat for the mountain gorilla and species such as the okapi, as well as causing soil erosion and diminishing carbon stocks.