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Promoting Agroforestry to Safeguard Vohibe Forest’s Biodiversity, Madagascar

Grantee Name: Missouri Botanical Garden

Hotspot
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
Location
Madagascar
Amount
$49,949
Dates
Mar 2024 – Dec 2026
Keywords
Agriculture, Agroforestry, Buffer zones, Community-based conservation, Fire management, Soil conservation

Reduce the practice of slash-and-burn cultivation, the main threats to forest biodiversity. Promote agroforestry, by creating demonstration plots and supporting pilot farmers around the Vohibe forest, to avoid the extension of new clearings and to improve the habitat and the ecosystem by through the restoration of degraded parts.

Strategic Direction :

1 Empower communities and civil society to implement actions to improve the resilience of species, ecosystems, and human populations to climate change in priority KBAs

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