The steepest plots, back to canopy
On the slopes above the safe farming contour, the programme is replanting deep-rooting native trees and publishing how many survive.
The steepest plots in West Java's upper catchment are where farming does the most damage. On steep volcanic slopes, cleared ground sheds soil toward the towns, reservoirs and rice fields below.
The programme replants those plots with deep-rooting native species, on slopes above the contour where farming is safe. As elsewhere in the programme, it reports survival counts rather than planting counts.
Farm income should not depend on taking more slope.
Farming without more slope
Replanting only holds if households do not simply move up the hill. So the programme also works on yield and market access for existing plots, including coffee agroforestry and ecotourism, so that farm income does not depend on taking more slope.
Steep slope replanted
1,180 households are in agreements in the landscape.
