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Building a business case for forest-friendly commodities in Côte d’Ivoire

14 October 2015/by EU REDD Facility

The EU REDD Facility supported the work of the National REDD+ Secretariat in Côte d’Ivoire to develop a strategy for engaging effectively with the agricultural sector and private actors. The innovative project engaged national commodity producer associations in discussions on decoupling deforestation and production of commodities.

Q-Huong Le, MDRI, 2022
Bringing together stakeholders for land-use planning in Vietnam25 April 2023 - 9:00 am
The European Forest Institute (EFI) and the Provincial Project Management Unit of Lam Dong Province hosted a Land-use Planner training course in Da Lat City, Vietnam. Three project teams shared their experiences in learning how to use the Land-use Planner to support sustainable agricultural and land-use planning.
WRI Indonesia
Enhancing land security: lessons from Côte d’Ivoire and Indonesia30 November 2022 - 11:46 am
In many parts of the world, Indigenous Peoples and local communities have no legal recognition of their rights over the forest land they live on. At the EU REDD Facility, we have gathered experience in Côte d’Ivoire and Indonesia to find innovative solutions to enhance local communities’ and smallholders’ legal security over their lands.
Nitidae
Securing land rights: one stone, three birds30 November 2022 - 10:58 am
Land tenure insecurity is a key driver of deforestation and land degradation. In contrast, tenure security comes with significant climate, biodiversity and development benefits: three birds with one stone. However, when looking at the national climate plans of major forest countries, more could be done to foster the securing of land rights.
Satrio Wicaksono, EFI
Training land-use planners for sustainable landscapes13 July 2022 - 5:59 pm
Landscapes around the world have experienced dramatic transformations in recent decades. Global supply chains link smallholder palm oil farmers in Indonesia with major retailers, like Lidl, Carrefour and Tesco, in Europe or cocoa growers in Ghana to chocolatiers in Belgium. The growing population of our globalised world has intensified pressure on land, soils, water and forests. Ensuring the health of these ecosystems is essential to address climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation to achieve sustainable development.
Reducing the bitterness of coffee from Vietnam’s Central Highlands20 June 2022 - 3:00 pm
I love coffee in the morning, its taste, its aroma and the boost of energy it gives me to start the day. While enjoying a fresh brew some years ago, I began to think about what was behind my morning cup – where do the beans come from? What are the landscapes where they are produced like? And who are the people that harvest this coffee?
Six ingredients of successful partnerships for legal and sustainable forest-risk commodities20 June 2022 - 1:46 pm
How can we ensure legal and sustainable value chains that unleash local wellbeing and protect forest and biodiversity without excluding smallholders? The answer may be in the mixing of six ingredients to whip up successful multistakeholder partnerships that can support legal and sustainable supply chains of forest-risk commodities.

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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