[fnordpiglet]

The citation is the video linked to that you’re commenting on. This isn’t tree planting greenwashing. This is engineered and planned, but it involves local people tending the land and turning it into continuously productive soil for profit. Greenwashing tree planting fails because it’s untended unplanned work. In this video they go through all the steps they take, including analyzing contours and building the water retention berms along them, the phasing of the work from basic planting to trees with crops interspersed etc. It’s really worth watching it.