Empowering Ivorian communities to conserve biodiversity and improve their livelihoods
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £300,000
WHERE Côte d'Ivoire
Summary
The project will support the cocoa industry to remove deforestation and poaching from its supply chain, as well as the Ivorian government’s commitment to a deforestation-free agricultural economy, by facilitating the creation of a Landscape Management Board in South-West Taï to rehabilitate degraded land in and around forest reserves. Communities adjacent to Taï National Park understand and engage in sustainable land-use and natural resource management, while cocoa farmers apply sustainable, climate-smart, biodiversity-conserving practices that improve their productivity and incomes.
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