DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY

Deforestation prevention with land-use monitoring and valuation in Cote d'Ivoire

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Description

The project’s aim is to alleviate two key development problems in Côte d’Ivoire: rural poverty, which afflicts more than half of the rural population; and deforestation for economic development, which has led to the loss of 80% of the country’s natural forests. It will contribute to efforts to reduce poverty and protect forests by developing tools that help policy-makers preserve and expand forests to the greatest benefits of rural communities, and to integrate relatively unproductive smallholders into more valuable global supply chains. Three tools have been created: • Land use inventory that classifies and differentiates physical surface cover types. • Natural capital valuation framework that informs national reforestation and forest protection strategies, and supports the extension of sustainable supply chains. This will integrate the land-use inventory with other economic information on the value of production and eco-systems services to map the value of land under different uses, recorded in a natural capital accounting balance sheet. • Forest disturbance early warning system to tighten enforcement of land-use rules. These will drive two key outcomes: improved monitoring and enforcement efforts that prevent forest loss and prioritise afforestation; and better targeted support to local economic development and sustainable supply chains through Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes. All three tools represent substantial improvements upon what is currently available, but the real benefit of the project lies in their combination and close integration into policy and regulatory activity. The tools initially covered an area in the south west of Côte d’Ivoire covered by the Emissions Reduction Programme (ERP) initiative. The ERP region was chosen as it contains much of the country’s remaining natural forest and is the focus of the development of sustainable supply chains and PES schemes in the country. The project has now been extended to cover the whole country.

Objectives

Using publicly available Earth Observation imagery, Vivid aim to create land-use tracking and deforestation warning systems for the Ivory Coast. This will improve monitoring to help and inform enforcement efforts, better target support to local economic development and sustainable supply chains through payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes. Overall this will prevent forest loss and prioritise afforestation.

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Location

The country, countries or regions that benefit from this Programme.

Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast

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