Stakeholder-led Forest Governance Assessment in Côte d’Ivoire : Evaluation de la Gouvernance Forestiere Dirigee par les Parties Prenantes en Cote d’Ivoire (الفرنسية)

Cote d’Ivoire, in West Africa, has a total surface area of 322,463 km. Liberia and Guinea border it to the west, Mali and Burkina Faso to the north, and Ghana to the east. It is divided into two main geographic regions: a forest zone in the south (48.2...  انظر المزيد + Cote d’Ivoire, in West Africa, has a total surface area of 322,463 km. Liberia and Guinea border it to the west, Mali and Burkina Faso to the north, and Ghana to the east. It is divided into two main geographic regions: a forest zone in the south (48.2 percent of the surface area) and a savanna zone in the north (51.8 percent of the surface area). The main direct causes of deforestation and forest degradation are massive expansion of extensive slash-and-burn agriculture; uncontrolled harvesting of trees, in particular for firewood (currently estimated at 20 million cubic meters per year, a figure that continues to grow, fueled by lack of protection for gazetted forests and, to a lesser extent, protected areas and significant shortcomings in the management of forest resources); bushfires (accidental or intentional, often for agriculture or hunting); and mining, notably illegal small-scale gold mining. The main indirect causes, which have a broader yet highly significant effect on forestry resources, are growing demographic pressure, which is increasing urbanization in the forested part of the country, where 75.5 percent of the country’s population currently lives, and generalized poverty of rural households, which leads to overexploitation of available natural resources to compensate for lack of productivity of smallholder farming and of opportunities for nonagricultural rural revenues.  رؤية أقل ـ

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