Currently, the harmful effects of climate change such as soil erosion and loss of fertility, prolonged droughts, swamp floods etc. are causing so much damage to communities that do not have enough resources to adapt to them.

It is in this context that the Burundian Office for the Protection of the Environment in Burundi (OBPE) has just produced around 420,000 agroforestry and forest plants that it has already distributed to the populations living on the hills bordering the banks of the banks in the Kibira and Ruvubu National Parks. These plants, once planted and maintained in their fields, could help them stabilize their cultivable soils for the short and long term while providing them with various services in order to protect the fauna and flora of the parks mentioned above.

In fact, the plants produced are those of Grevillea robusta and Calliandra colothyrsus that were proposed by the communities themselves.

These images are those of the hill populations of Muramvya commune who take the plants produced on Gashanga Hill, not far from Bugarama.