The aim of WAFEDEG is to cooperatively and locally address the rapid rate of environmental degradation and the resulting loss of food security and poverty associated with it. WAFEDEG seeks to realize this aim by embarking on agricultural activities, alternative livelihood projects, and reforestation programs that promote sustainable land use and local self-reliance. The root and the function of the aim are to address poverty by maximizing resources and protecting the environment for future generations’ use. Localizing processing requirements for crops, attracting entrepreneurs through alternative livelihood projects (such as grasscutter and snail rearing), and promoting agroforestry cropping systems will aid in promoting community prosperity and self-reliance. Although the group’s area of focus and origin is the Guaman community in the Jasikan District, the group also desires to broaden its geographic influence.

Wofabeng is also collaborating with environmental anthropology graduate student Douglas Joseph La Rose from San Diego State University in a deforestation assessment program to analyze the relationship between locallly based environmental knowledge and narratives and the intentions and understandings of intervening environmental organizations.