Leasehold Forestry and Livestock Programme

The programme covers the middle hills area where a large percentage of the population is poor. It targets poor families in the 22 districts not covered by the ongoing IFAD Western Uplands Poverty Alleviation Project, with particular attention to those living in areas adjacent to degraded forest who cannot secure enough food for their families year round. The overall goal will be to reduce poverty in the area by allocating leasehold forestry plots to poor families to enable them to increase incomes from forest products and livestock. Specifically the programme will work to:

• improve household forage and tree crop production
• improve household production of livestock, especially goats
• provide access to microfinance institutions
• support the government’s capacity to implement leasehold forestry in a gender-sensitive way

Source: IFAD