Source: UNREDD, August 2024
Since 2022, the PROMIRE project (Promouvoir une Production de Cacao sans Déforestation pour Réduire les Émissions) has enabled Côte d’Ivoire to contribute to the fight against deforestation and forest degradation.
The project aims both to support the country in finalizing the development and operationalization of REDD+ tools, and to implement direct actions at the jurisdictional level to reduce the impacts of cocoa production on the forest, in three regions: La Mé, Agneby Tiassa, and Sud-Comoé. Cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire is vital for economic, social and environmental reasons. Economically, Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s leading exporter of cocoa. The sector employs almost a quarter of the population. But the expansion of cocoa plantations is considered one of the main drivers of deforestation and biodiversity loss.
Through its holistic approach, territorial planning and capacity-building activities, particularly in areas such as zero deforestation agriculture, cooperative and associative management (for women), and good agricultural practices, are implemented in parallel. The project also supports land tenure security, in addition to actions to improve the quality of cocoa plantations and restore degraded areas. In addition, the project supports the finalization and operationalization of the tools needed to implement REDD+, initiated and complementing the assistance granted by the UN-REDD Programme in Côte d’Ivoire.
To date, the project has achieved a number of results.
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