Growing Trees Is Helping Fight Poverty in Cameroon

In rural Africa, farmers are struggling to feed their families. The market price of the cash crops they depend on is fluctuating wildly on a monthly basis and there are no government subsidies to make up the loss of income. Zac Tchoundjeu is taking a grassroots approach to cutting this chain of poverty: empowering farmers with simple, powerful agroforestry techniques that they can bring back to their communities to improve their yield, market agency, and confidence.