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Promoting a System of Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Fandriana Marolambo Forest, Madagascar

Grantee Name: Association PARTAGE

Hotspot
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
Location
Madagascar
Amount
$31,155
Dates
Jun 2023 – Jun 2025
Keywords
Agroforestry, Climate adaptation, Climate mitigation, Conservation finance, Habitat conservation and management, Payment for Ecosystem Services

Develop a pilot site for a payment for ecosystem services scheme to encourage small groups of self-governing farmers to plant trees and show environmental leadership. Restore degraded land and reduce pressure on the natural forests of the Fandriana-Marolambo Forest Corridor, while testing this innovative and proven sustainable development model in Madagascar. Community quantifiers will be paid to monitor the trees planted and the new sustainable agricultural practices that promote biodiversity.

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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