{"id":3645,"date":"2025-01-22T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2025-01-22T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:56:01","slug":"uwe-rosenbergs-project-to-plant-40000-trees-in-ghana-gets-backing-from-18th-publisher-tie-in-kickstarter-game-passes-e20000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/uwe-rosenbergs-project-to-plant-40000-trees-in-ghana-gets-backing-from-18th-publisher-tie-in-kickstarter-game-passes-e20000\/","title":{"rendered":"Uwe Rosenberg&#8217;s project to plant 40,000 trees in Ghana gets backing from 18th publisher, tie-in Kickstarter game passes \u20ac20,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eminent German board game designer Uwe Rosenberg&#8217;s project to create a forest in the Ghanaian savannah &#8211; and provide fair employment for local people &#8211; is nearing its goal of bringing 20 board game publishers on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosenberg, the designer of games including <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/31260\/agricola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Agricola<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/163412\/patchwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Patchwork<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/177736\/a-feast-for-odin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">A Feast for Odin<\/a>, launched the Board Game Road project in 2022 alongside sustainability business <a href=\"https:\/\/clickatree.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Click A Tree<\/a>, with the aim of planting 40,000 trees along a rural road in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Board-Game-Road.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3649\" style=\"width:506px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Board-Game-Road.jpg 795w, https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Board-Game-Road-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Board-Game-Road-768x544.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Plots of land due to be turned into a forest in Ghana thanks to support from board game publishers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosenberg contacted Click A Tree after researching living conditions in Ghana for his 2022 board game <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/362452\/atiwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Atiwa<\/a>, which sees players developing small communities near the country&#8217;s Atiwa mountain range &#8211; partly by attracting fruit bats to act in a symbiotic relationship with farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The designer has since brought on board 18 board game publisher to create the new forest in Ghana, which will provide local people with 10,000 hours of work &#8211; equivalent to 250 weeks of full-time employment &#8211; to grow, plant and care for the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project will also finance 8,000 training days in local business schools, which it estimates will provide education for about 40 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lookout-spiele.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Lookout Spiele<\/a>, the now Asmodee-owned board game publisher Rosenberg co-founded in 2000, is the 18th company to sign up to the project, following backing from businesses including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amigo-spiele.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Amigo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feuerland-spiele.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Feuerland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hans-im-glueck.de\/en\/home-en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hans im Gl\u00fcck<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skellig-games.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Skellig Games<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spielwiese-berlin.de\/edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Edition Spielwiese<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spielworxx.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Spielworxx<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-A-Tree-components.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3650\" style=\"width:510px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-A-Tree-components.jpg 555w, https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-A-Tree-components-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Prototype components for the Click A Tree board game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosenberg is also hoping to raise awareness about the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/skellig-games\/click-a-tree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">through a Kickstarter project for his namesake board game design Click A Tree<\/a>, which has raised more than \u20ac20,000 since launching a week ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game, which is being published by Skellig Games, is a tile-laying game themed around Ghanaian farmers having to adapt to changing climate conditions by aiming to plant their crops in the shade of trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 400 people have backed the Kickstarter campaign to date. The crowdfund is scheduled to end on February 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/buttondown.com\/boardgamewire\" style=\"background-color:#f6bf00\">For more stories like this direct to your email inbox, click here to sign up for BoardGameWire&#8217;s free email newsletter. \n\nAnd if you&#8217;ve found our reporting interesting or useful, please consider a paid subscription to help support our journalism!<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eminent German board game designer Uwe Rosenberg&#8217;s project to create a forest in the Ghanaian savannah &#8211; and provide fair employment for local people &#8211; is nearing its goal of bringing 20 board game publishers on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1466,6,1464,135,1465,1368,1408,108,1460,1467,58,725,1463,991,217,375],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amigo-spiele","tag-board-game","tag-board-game-road","tag-board-games","tag-click-a-tree","tag-edition-spielwiese","tag-feuerland","tag-german","tag-ghana","tag-hans-im-gluck","tag-kickstarter","tag-lookout-spiele","tag-planting","tag-skellig-games","tag-spielworxx","tag-uwe-rosenberg"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}