We Are Pragmatic Visionaries!

Fairventures Worldwide is a non-profit organization based in Stuttgart, Germany. We combine forestry and modern technologies to reforest degraded areas in the tropics. In cooperation with smallholder farmers in Indonesia and Uganda, we create sustainable forests from timber and food crops. These provide local people with a secure income, help to preserve biodiversity and counteract climate change.

Together with partners from academia, the business community and the public sector, we combine reforestation with sustainable value chains in the timber industry to replace climate-damaging building materials such as concrete, cement and steel. We finance our work with donations, grants, corporate partnerships and consulting services.

Where We Work

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Vision

Good forests are climate solutions.

Why Forests?

Mission

Empowering farmers through reforestation and responsible value chains.

What We Do
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Our Structure

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Our Story

In his TEDx Talk, Johannes Schwegler tells our founding story and shows how we can work together to plant 100 million trees.

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Our Milestones

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2013

Acquisition of Swisscontact Germany and tranformation into Fairventures Worldwide gGmbH.

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2014

Start of the “One Million Trees” program

Office in indonesia from outside
2016

Opening of the Indonesia country office

Solution Search Prize 2017
2017

Winners of the Solution Search: Social Impact Award at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn

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2018

Opening of the Uganda country office

Johannes Schwegler holds up the award, audience applauds
2018

Winners of the Google Impact Challenge Germany

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2019

Fairventures Social Forestry established as private sector sister company

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2020

Successful completion of “One Million Trees” in Borneo

Treeo app is tested on a tree
2021

Founding of Fairventures Digital

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