Description

The Project "Sustainable Production and Resilience for the Prevention of Food Crises in the Yangambi Landscape" (abbreviated to FORETS-Food) is an Action mainly financed by the EU Program FED/2022/044-450 (DRC - Sustainable Production and Resilience for the Prevention of Food Crises). It is implemented over a period of 48 months, between 2023 and 2026.

Better harvests, crop diversification, and improved post-harvest phases play a key role in ensuring sustainable food production, increasing people's incomes, and building resilience to future food-related constraints. Although the action is an emergency response to the food insecurity situation, its sustainability will result from its synergy with development actions in a landscape approach, which has already demonstrated its ability to ensure sustainable food production in the Yangambi Landscape.

The proposed action aims to increase short-term agricultural production of the most prevalent crops in the Yangambi Landscape, as well as to improve the sustainability of food and agricultural production and agri-food value chains, particularly those serving the city of Kisangani. Key activities include improving the seed and extension sectors, reviving agroecological production of local crops, particularly cassava, to replace wheat imports, and reducing losses at the production and post-harvest stages. Where appropriate, the action also focuses on the spread of plant pests and diseases.