Brookside mulls Agroforestry deal to combat climate change

Brookside has unveiled a programme an agroforestry project targeting dairy farms as a strategy to combat climate change and enhance livelihoods.

In collaboration with its contracted dairy groups, the firm has moved to promote tree planting on dairy farms, with the goal of enabling farmers to benefit from increased tree cover on their properties.

Brookside’s milk procurement general manager Emmanuel Kabaki said the dairy sector’s reliance on rainfall must end with a mindset towards smart solutions like agroforestry to address the challenges posed by climate change.

In a statement, he said that trees play a vital role in absorbing and releasing water into the atmosphere. The involvement of farmers in agroforestry is seen as a means to ensure that all regions receive adequate rainfal.

He said that in addition to benefiting entire ecosystems, trees contribute to the absorption and filtration of stormwater and carbon sequestration.