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Project code: |
| GCP/RAF/479/AFB |
Donor: |
| African Development Bank through the Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF), |
Executing Agency: |
| Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations (FAO) |
Implementing |
| Commission of the Forests of Central Africa (COMIFAC), |
Funding: |
| EUR 3,589,587 |
Duration: |
| 3 February 2014 - 3 February 2017 (3 years) |
Context
The Congo Basin is among the world’s major reservoirs of biological diversity and is the home of some 100 millions habitants of which the livelihoods of many depends on the forest. Large areas in Central Africa have been attributed to commercial timber exploitation or set aside as protected areas while Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) are of major importance for subsistence or income generation of forest dependent people with small-scale forest based enterprises playing a key role in commercialization.
Despite their importance and significant potential in the fight against poverty, NTFP are hardly visible in the national economy statistics. In addition, the NTFP sector is mostly informal with an inappropriate legal, institutional and organizational framework.
Villager seen through eucalyptus trees. Rwanda. ©FAO/Giulio Napolitano / FAO
Publications
Information note N° 4: Should protecting forest biodiversity in forest concessions and in natural reserves be more important than human well-being, food security and nutrition?