Many people.

Suppporting and linking subsistence farmers
with people around the world wanting to take direct action on climate change.

In all of our work, we focus on sustaining a development model that is about putting an earned dollar in a person’s pocket. We believe that doing this empowers people to make decisions for themselves and not be reliant on charity and aid. We believe in economic justice through viable, locally controlled social enterprise. We look to the UN Sustainable Development Goals to provide the framework for this work.

We spend time in remote villages working with subsistence farmers developing their capacity to improve the crop yields and harvesting practices. We work with village woman looking at food security issues including food preparation, food and personal hygiene and nutrition.

Our achievements to date:

• Over 960 Baguia farmers engaged in community forestry
• Over 152,000 trees under management
• Over 50,000 t CO2e removed from the global atmosphere
• More than 15,000 carbon credits sold internationally to companies driving toward carbon neutrality
• Nearly US$300,000 paid into the Baguia village economy since 2010
• Over 5% of Baguia farmers directly involved in planting and managing trees
• Just under 30% of the population of Baguia benefitting financially from WithOneSeed
• 15 permanent full-time jobs and 15 casual jobs created
• Baguia Farmer Finance Cooperative established
• WithOneSeed achieving the internationally certified carbon forestry program under the Gold Standard Foundation
• Internationally recognised Master Tree Growers agroforestry training program established in Baguia
• The establishment of the Baguia Agroforestry and horticulture centre in 2019
• MOU with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and WithOneSeed
• 10 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals being addressed by WithOneSeed.
• WithOneSeed community forestry program expansion into four other Municipalities of Timor-Leste in 2019
• Establish the Foundasuan Rai Matak (Green Land Foundation) in late 2019 to manage expansion across Timor-Leste to be managed and directed by Timorese for Timorese.

Standing with our regional
neighbours in Timor-Leste.

Subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste, who are some of the poorest people in our region, are taking action to improve their environment while at the same time doing something about climate change. They recognise that the atmosphere knows no borders and we all have a responsibility to look after our planet.

Now, we have an opportunity to take responsibility for our own mess while supporting our regional neighbours, and together make a global impact and create a healthier planet.

CarbonSocial and WithOneSeed are initiatives of the xpand Foundation, a social enterprise committed to an inclusive society that values the sustainable livelihood and happiness of every individual.

Big impact.

Moving beyond charity and aid and delivering economic empowerment while reducing human-made global warming.

WithOneSeed successfully gained certification from the Gold Standard Foundation under its afforestation/reforestation standard in March 2106 and achieved a successful Performance Audit outcome in 2017 and 2019. Therefore, CarbonSocial carbon credits produced under the WithOneSeed program meet both international and Australia carbon offset standards and are the only internationally certified credits available from Timor-Leste.

All funds raised from the sale of CarbonSocial credits are used to directly pay small landholder subsistence farmers to plant and manage the forests under guidance from WithOneSeed.

It’s simple actions by many people that will make the biggest impact on climate change.

For less than $1 a day you can now join a growing group of people taking responsibility for their individual carbon footprint.

Your action will ensure the viability of the WithOneSeed program as a new way of development which is beyond charity and aid and focused on small landholder social enterprise initiatives.  Putting an earned dollar in a farmers pocket gives him or her the opportunity to make decisions for themselves.

The planting of forests is one of the quickest and effective ways of removing green house gases from the atmosphere today.

The WithOneSeed program provides a way for individuals and businesses to show our leaders that we, the people, want to leave a habitable planet for our children and grandchildren.

WithOneSeed has embraced the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.

CarbonSocial credits can help deliver the 10 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by:

1. ending poverty and hunger and supporting sustainable farming
   and lifelong learning
2. promoting decent work, sustainable agricultural communities and economic growth
3. taking action to combat climate change, manage forests and reverse land degradation
4. encouraging global partnerships for sustainable development through relationships with Australian schools
5. empowering women and children, (particularly girls), by increasing family income, facilitating children’s education and creating
   family job prospects.