Green Tree Commodities Initiative (GTCI)

Purpose

Link tree ownership to real commodity value so households earn from growing trees, not just from planting events.

Problem it addresses

Trees are planted and abandoned because there is no path from ownership to income. GTCI builds that path as a structured, data-driven commodity lifecycle.

How it works

1. Households register individual trees as commodities through their CFA or co-op.
2. Each tree carries data: species, age, survival, management, and planned harvest/use.
3. Aggregation pools household volumes into marketable sizes.
4. Verified lifecycle data connects growers to markets and, later, to traceable financial instruments.

Activities

Required data

Who participates

Tree-owning households · CFAs and cooperatives · Market buyers · Hub administrators

Expected outcomes

Conservation benefits & verification

Benefits: Trees kept standing through financial value · Managed rather than abandoned plantations · Landscape-level aggregation

Verification: Evidence for registrations, survival checks and commodity flows; human verifiers confirm records before finance or tokenization use.

Economic value

Commodity sales today; conservation finance taps and tokenized tree-based commodities at later phases.

Related resources & CFAs

Resources: GTCI commodity lifecycle guide · Household tree registration template · CFA aggregation playbook

Connected CFAs: Oloolua