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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 II
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$49,949
DATES
Apr 2024
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Dec 2026
Stats
Project Overview Overview
CEPF Strategic Direction Strategy
HOTSPOT
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands II
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$49,949
DATES
Apr 2024
-
Dec 2026

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