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# SexyTrees protocol scope: agroforestry, reforestation, chagras

### What this protocol covers

This is an *economic* protocol for restoration initiatives aiming to recover the ecological function of degraded tropical land by *adding more native trees.* This protocol is interoperable between agroforestry, reforestation, or natural regrowth and extends to traditional Indigenous *chagras* (see [Table B](#table-b-mechanisms-for-sexytrees-with-credit-revenue-options)). 

<div><figure><img src="/files/DFBvuG6nuUKKsL3fmt6j" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/gnI7AB6DIDIox66DR0Ty" alt="Miguel Chindoy, on behalf of Agropueblos, Asociación Indígena para la Gobernanza de los Primeros Pueblos"><figcaption><p>Miguel Chindoy, Indigenous author of the <a href="/pages/sSnH3dvBAuVEJiqw8Sxg"><em>chagras</em></a> section.</p></figcaption></figure></div>

<div><figure><img src="/files/QX6UqmU4AYdp5UaiEwiD" alt="Wheelbarrow full of freshly harvested pink-fleshed tropical rhizomes with distinctive concentric vascular ring patterns visible in cross-section, dug up for propagation and replanting on a Putumayo agroforestry site, Colombia. Vegetative propagation of food and ornamental species supports Savimbo&#x27;s grassroots SexyTrees reforestation methodology."><figcaption><p>Vegetative propagation in action — rhizomes dug from a mature stand,</p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/ToY8yYLpQVwXnRPqCBGL" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/w4Oi9Uu6akcBldgTzdBw" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>

All included activities restore soil fertility, [biodiversity](/biodiversity-credits/biodiversity-unit.md), [water quality](/water-credits/water-unit.md), and [nature-based carbon](/carbon-credits.md) on lands previously deforested or under unsustainable cultivation, while providing food security and livelihoods to smallfarmer and Indigenous implementers. They must have proven to either reverse or reduce pressure on deforestation. Enrolling plots must be segmented by area, as they constitute variance in human activities and intended human use; however, please note that agrobiodiversity is a gene-based unit.   &#x20;

### Mechanisms and credit pathways

#### Table B: Mechanisms for #SexyTrees to directly earn recurring revenue and/or qualify for outcomes-based forward financing

<table><thead><tr><th width="159.11328125">Mechanism</th><th width="94.3359375">Tree</th><th width="100.66015625">Tree carbon</th><th width="110.4296875">Biochar carbon</th><th width="130.2734375">Biodiversity</th><th width="100.54296875">Water</th><th>Agrobiodiversity</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Agroforestry</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td></tr><tr><td>Reforestation</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Natural regrowth</td><td></td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td></td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Chagras</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>🌱🌱🌱</td></tr></tbody></table>

*Chagras* are included because [they are awesome](/trees/chagras.md), often include trees, and their protocols overlap on a subset of high-quality sites for the preservation of rare crops. Separating them from the protocol is unnecessarily reductive, including them synergistic. &#x20;

This protocol is written with standard generic guardrails for sites using it for MRV-based crediting with or without auditing. If it is adopted under a certifying body, many of the sections will be streamlined or redundant, depending on the certifier (See [Document history](/document-history.md)).

### What's not included

We don't cover afforestation carbon in this methodology, although we do [advocate for its inclusion](/carbon-credits/the-lace-problem.md) in crediting the carbon layer.&#x20;

### EUDR compliance

As a side effect of sheer 😎, all plots are EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)-compliant, and can prove it, so we automate those certificates into the supply chain from grassroots suppliers for free as part of the protocol.&#x20;


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