BACKGROUND
As part of its international reforestation activities, Reforest'Action, a French social enterprise, has teamed up with Ivorian company AGROMAP to help cocoa producers create sustainable agroforestry systems.
This project will reconcile trees and crops to create a microclimate conducive to agricultural development. By restoring degraded areas of the eastern forest islands, local communities in Agnéby-Tiassa, Indénié Djuablin, Mé and Gontougo are also improving their resilience in the face of climate change.
OBJECTIVES
The aim of the project is to reforest degraded areas and preserve biodiversity.
- Restoring patches of forest located near and in the classified forests of eastern Côte D'Ivoire.
- Setting up cocoa-based agroforestry systems.
- Create private and community forests.
- Raise awareness and train communities in agroforestry, cocoa-based agroforestry systems, reforestation, the new forestry code and tree ownership.
- Use hedges to define village boundaries.
- Plant monitoring.
RESULTS
- Around 1,000,000 forest and fruit seedlings are produced.
- More than 7,000 cocoa farmers trained in agroforestry, cocoa-based agroforestry systems, the new forestry code and tree ownership.
- More than 60 communities sensitized to reforestation, the new forestry code and tree ownership.
- Over 700 ha of degraded land reforested.
- Over 10,000 ha of cocoa farms converted to agroforestry systems.
- The boundaries of seven(07) village territories marked by trees.
- Over 230 ha of community and private plots reforested.
- Forest and fruit trees are monitored and maintained.
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