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Les petits producteurs sèment l’espoir : Reconstituer la forêt ivoirienne en assurant le futur de la cacaoculture

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Lorsque la sécheresse a frappé le sud-ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire en 2015, une grande partie de la récolte de cacao, la principale matière première agricole du pays, a été perdue et des milliers de petits producteurs ont vu leur gagne-pain menacé. « J’ai presque perdu toute ma plantation de cacao, sauf aux endroits où j’avais de grands arbres », déclare Kouassi Akoura Apollinaire Yao, un jeune fermier qui exploite une plantation de deux hectares près de Méagui, 400 km à l’ouest d’Abidjan, la capitale du pays. « C’est l’ombrage qui a permis de sauver ces plants. »

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One seedling at a time: How Ivorian smallholder cocoa farmers are restoring lost tree cover

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When a major drought hit the South-West of Côte d’Ivoire in 2015, much of the expected harvest of the country’s main commodity — cocoa — was lost and the livelihoods of thousands of smallholder farmers were jeopardised. “I nearly lost my entire cocoa plantation, except for in the areas where I had large trees,” says Kouassi Akoura Apolinaire Yao, a young farmer who manages a two-hectare plantation near Méagui, 400 km west of the capital Abidjan. “It was these trees’ shade that saved the cocoa plants.”

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Financing sustainable cocoa: solutions for Côte d’Ivoire smallholders

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When you buy a chocolate bar, it’s quite likely that the cocoa in it came from Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s top producer. If so, it is almost certain that the cocoa plants were grown where dense rainforest once stood.

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Financer les engagements pour la forêt et le climat

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Dans la plupart des pays en développement, les secteurs de la forêt et de l’utilisation des sols occupent une place centrale dans les stratégies nationales de lutte contre le changement climatique, et plus généralement dans les plans de développement. Comment s’assurer que les investissements effectués dans ces secteurs contribuent aux objectifs fixés par les contributions nationales déterminées (CND) ? Dans quelle mesure est-il possible de rediriger certains financements vers des activités contribuant de manière plus efficace aux efforts de protection des forêts et d’atténuation du changement climatique ?

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Mapping financial flows to implement forest and climate commitments

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In most low-income countries, the forest and land use sectors have a central role to play in national climate change plans and broader development objectives. But how can these countries ensure that investments in these sectors are adequate? And what scope is there for redirecting finance from supporting business-as-usual to effective approaches for protecting forests and mitigating climate change?

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About the EU REDD Facility

The EU REDD Facility supports countries in improving land-use governance as part of their efforts to slow, halt and reverse deforestation. It also supports the overall EU effort to reduce its contribution to deforestation in developing countries. The Facility focuses on countries that are engaged in REDD+, an international mechanism that incentivises developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their forest and land-use sectors. The Facility is hosted by the European Forest Institute and was established in 2010.

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