Tree Survival Monitoring (TSMP)
Five years of shade-tree distribution, finally accounted for - a rigorous, GPS-based survival assessment that turned an unmeasured investment into decision-ready evidence.
Between 2019 and 2023 Cargill distributed shade trees to cocoa farmers, but survival was unknown - leaving the impact of the investment unaccounted for and future decisions (where, why and whether to keep supplying) without data.
Designed digital data-collection forms and deployed trained enumerators to visit farms across 50 communities, capturing farmer demographics, GPS farm polygons, species, tree circumference and height, planting year and survival status - then estimated carbon sequestration from the surviving trees.
1,575 farmers visited (91% of target); of 82,996 trees distributed on record, 23,466 were confirmed alive - a 43% survival rate on validated farms. We identified the main drivers of mortality and set out an end-to-end, data-driven approach to raise survival on future programmes.
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