Growing trees for living
AS A way of taking meaningful action against the climate crisis, Zambia in 2018 launched the Plant A Million (PAM) trees initiative.
The ambitious initiative was aimed at planting two billion trees by 2021 and the plan was in line with the country’s Seventh National Development Plan (2017-2021) which sought to diversify the economy from copper dependency. The initiative targeted young people through schools, colleges and universities and was to be used as a vehicle for mindset change among Zambians so that they could begin to value the importance of planting trees for commercial purposes.
Title of publication: Zambia daily mail
Author: VIOLET MENGO
Year: 2022
Country/ies: Zambia
Geographical coverage: Africa
Type: Blog article
Full text available at: http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/growing-trees-for-living/
Content language: English