International Forestry Group

Rooted in Uganda. Built for the Long Run.

IFG was not founded to plant trees. It was founded to restore landscapes — and to do it in a way that is rigorous, lasting, and genuinely good for the communities who call those landscapes home.

Who We Are

A Different Kind of Forestry Company.

International Forestry Group Ltd (IFG) is Uganda’s premier forestry, agroforestry, and environmental services company. We were established to respond to a clear and urgent challenge: Uganda’s forests are disappearing, its soils are degrading, and the rural communities that depend on healthy landscapes are bearing the cost.

We are not a tree-planting campaign. We are a professional implementation company — bringing together expert foresters, community development specialists, ecologists, environmental planners, and digital monitoring technicians to deliver restoration that actually works.

Operating across Uganda’s diverse ecological zones — from the northern savannah woodlands around Murchison Falls to the central highlands — IFG has built a reputation for technical excellence, transparent reporting, and meaningful community impact. Every project we design is intended to thrive long after we have finished our work on the ground.

Our Partnership Model

Three Strengths. One Integrated Team.

IFG’s capabilities are built on a powerful model that fuses three complementary institutional strengths. This is not a consortium of independent contractors — it is an integrated team that works as one, sharing data, systems, and accountability across every project.

Advanced Digital Monitoring Capability

IFG deploys a world-class digital Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system that tracks restoration outcomes at the individual tree level. Using GPS-enabled mobile applications in the field, our teams collect precise location, growth, and survival data for every tree we plant — building an audit-ready dataset that supports both carbon market verification and donor reporting.

Our digital infrastructure provides:

• Single-tree GPS data collection with precise geolocation for each planted or monitored tree
• Continuous growth tracking — recording height, diameter at breast height (DBH), and canopy development over time
• Real-time biomass and carbon quantification using validated allometric equations
• Live digital dashboards giving governments, investors, and development partners instant visibility of project performance
• Fully traceable, audit-ready datasets from seedling establishment to carbon credit issuance

Proven Field Implementation Expertise

Paired with our digital capabilities is a deep reservoir of practical, on-the-ground experience built over more than five years of active forestry and restoration delivery across Uganda. Our field operations team has successfully established and managed projects across diverse ecological zones — from the semi-arid north to the humid central highlands.

This operational depth means:

• High seedling survival rates achieved consistently across challenging environments
• Proven nursery management systems capable of producing high volumes of certified, quality-assured planting material
• Experienced field crews trained in silviculture, agroforestry, fire management, and community engagement
• Established relationships with district local governments, community organisations, and national authorities

OUR PARTNERSHIP MODEL

Three Strengths. One Integrated Team.

IFG’s capabilities are built on a powerful model that fuses three complementary institutional strengths. This is not a consortium of independent contractors — it is an integrated team that works as one, sharing data, systems, and accountability across every project.

Advanced Digital Monitoring Capability

IFG deploys a world-class digital Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system that tracks restoration outcomes at the individual tree level. Using GPS-enabled mobile applications in the field, our teams collect precise location, growth, and survival data for every tree we plant — building an audit-ready dataset that supports both carbon market verification and donor reporting.

Our digital infrastructure provides:

• Single-tree GPS data collection with precise geolocation for each planted or monitored tree
• Continuous growth tracking — recording height, diameter at breast height (DBH), and canopy development over time
• Real-time biomass and carbon quantification using validated allometric equations
• Live digital dashboards giving governments, investors, and development partners instant visibility of project performance
• Fully traceable, audit-ready datasets from seedling establishment to carbon credit issuance

Proven Field Implementation Expertise

Paired with our digital capabilities is a deep reservoir of practical, on-the-ground experience built over more than five years of active forestry and restoration delivery across Uganda. Our field operations team has successfully established and managed projects across diverse ecological zones — from the semi-arid north to the humid central highlands.

This operational depth means:

• High seedling survival rates were achieved consistently across challenging environments
• Proven nursery management systems capable of producing high volumes of certified, quality-assured planting material
• Experienced field crews trained in silviculture, agroforestry, fire management, and community engagement
• Established relationships with district local governments, community organisations, and national authorities

Community-Centred Approach

At IFG, community engagement is not a box to tick — it is a pillar of our business model. We have learned that the most technically perfect restoration plan fails if the people living alongside it do not benefit from it, believe in it, and feel ownership over it.

Our community model includes:

• Participatory planning using Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) — communities help shape the projects that affect their land
• Local employment at every stage: nursery operations, planting, monitoring, maintenance, and management
• Equitable benefit-sharing frameworks so communities receive a fair share of carbon revenues and long-term value
• Farmer training and agroforestry extension so households gain practical skills that generate income independently
• Transparent governance through community forest groups and Catchment Management Organisations (CMOs)

Our Team

IFG’s multidisciplinary team is the foundation of everything we deliver. Our staff and associates bring expertise across professional forestry and silviculture, restoration ecology and biodiversity, digital monitoring and geospatial analysis, community development and rural livelihoods, environmental planning and safeguards compliance, and carbon project development and verification.

We are proud to employ and develop Ugandan professionals — building local technical capacity that strengthens the country’s restoration sector long beyond any single project.

Why We Exist

Uganda has lost an alarming proportion of its forest cover over the past two decades. The drivers are well documented: charcoal production, agricultural encroachment, population pressure, and the absence of credible, professional alternatives for landowners who depend on the land for their livelihoods.

IFG was founded with a conviction: that large-scale, high-quality forest restoration in Uganda is achievable — but only if it is done professionally, with the right tools, the right people, and the right relationships. That conviction drives us every day.

Since our founding, we have implemented and supported more than 4,000 hectares of restoration, plantation, and conservation work across Uganda — and we are only getting started.