{"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’s project to plant 40,000 trees in Ghana gets backing from 18th publisher, tie-in Kickstarter game passes \u20ac20,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eminent German board game designer Uwe Rosenberg’s project to create a forest in the Ghanaian savannah – and provide fair employment for local people – is nearing its goal of bringing 20 board game publishers on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosenberg, the designer of games including Agricola<\/a>, Patchwork<\/a> and A Feast for Odin<\/a>, launched the Board Game Road project in 2022 alongside sustainability business Click A Tree<\/a>, with the aim of planting 40,000 trees along a rural road in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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

Rosenberg contacted Click A Tree after researching living conditions in Ghana for his 2022 board game Atiwa<\/a>, which sees players developing small communities near the country’s Atiwa mountain range – partly by attracting fruit bats to act in a symbiotic relationship with farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 – equivalent to 250 weeks of full-time employment – to grow, plant and care for the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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 Amigo<\/a>, Feuerland<\/a>, Hans im Gl\u00fcck<\/a>, Skellig Games<\/a>, Edition Spielwiese<\/a> and Spielworxx<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prototype components for the Click A Tree board game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rosenberg is also hoping to raise awareness about the project 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

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

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

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