Fes Enying Community Agroforestry Carbon Project (Cameroon)

The Fes Enying project in Bankim commune, Mayo-Banyo division, Adamawa Region, Cameroon, is run by the NGO Graine de Vie in partnership with the communes of Bankim, Banyo and Mayo-Darlé, using the Plan Vivo Keystone 2.0 methodology since 2024, in a division that lost 5,300 hectares (17% of its tree cover) of primary forest between 2001 and 2025, mostly to permanent and shifting agriculture.

The project pays smallholders to plant native trees in home gardens and agroforestry plots, sharing carbon revenue with participating villages.

Smallholders plant native trees at roughly 200 trees per hectare, adding about 10,000 trees per community each year.

As of the latest reporting, about 16 hectares have been planted, sequestering an estimated 3,300 tCO2e. Public sources describe the carbon-revenue split somewhat inconsistently: Plan Vivo's project page cites 60% of revenue going to communities, while Earthly.org describes a 50% direct-to-farmer / 50% community-fund split (with 10% of the fund earmarked for garden maintenance).

The project is still very young — one funding cycle since 2024 — and no independent, third-party audit of the carbon or revenue-sharing figures has yet been published; at 16 hectares, its footprint remains small relative to the scale of deforestation pressure across the surrounding division.