Timberland Launches New Documentary: "KOMBIT: The Cooperative" Chronicling Journey Toward Greener Future for Haiti

Earlier this month, Timberland released “KOMBIT: The Cooperative,” a documentary film chronicling an unlikely partnership helping to reforest Haiti, resulting from the company's goal to plant five million trees in the country in five years. The film, which premiered at SxSW Eco in Austin, documents the development of a large-scale, self-sustaining agroforestry program owned and operated by smallholder farmers, creating lasting value well beyond the trees themselves.

With less than two percent tree cover, Haiti is threatened by severe deforestation and desertification caused by natural disasters, over-use of land by farmers and livestock and harvesting of trees to sell as charcoal. In 2010, Timberland aimed to reverse Haiti's dangerous decline in tree populations via a Clinton Global Initiative commitment, resulting in the development of a large-scale, self-sustaining agroforestry program owned and operated by smallholder farmers. The film, produced by Found Object, documents the emergence of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA), a Haitian nonprofit farmer cooperative dedicated to feeding and reforesting the country.

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