Description

The rapid disappearance of forests in Côte d'Ivoire is one of the most dramatic examples of tropical deforestation with nearly nearly 90% of the country’s natural forests lost in the past 50 years. Agricultural expansion for the production of cash crops, including export commodities such as cocoa, is the main driver of deforestation and forest degradation in the country.

This project aims to improve cocoa and forest landscape management to enhance productivity and resilience of cocoa-based food systems. Working in a participatory manner with a full range of landscape stakeholders, and building capacities to enable a full and informed participation of all parties, the project develops detailed, integrated landscape management frameworks for implementation. It enhances the coordination and the synergy of multiple initiatives across defined landscapes and accelerate the scaling up of innovations by partners.

The project is implemented in three cocoa and forest landscape in Cote d’Ivoire. The beneficiaries are smallholder cocoa growers, cooperative unions, local governments, and district officials.