Integrated landscape management – Grand M’bam
The Grand Mbam Integrated Landscape Management Project (PGIP-GM), funded by the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) through KfW, is aligned with Cameroon’s National Development Strategy 2030 (SND30), which aims to support the structural transformation of the country’s economy. It also forms part of CAFI’s start-up phase, which is intended to pilot replicable approaches to integrated land-use planning and payments for environmental services (PES) at the decentralised level.
PGIP-GM is based on a landscape approach that combines biodiversity conservation, particularly in protected areas, with the sustainable management of surrounding agricultural land and forests, while promoting inclusive development for neighbouring communities. The project targets the Grand Mbam landscape (PGM), comprising the departments of Mbam-et-Inoubou and Mbam-et-Kim. This landscape constitutes a critical ecological transition zone between forests and savannahs and has been divided into six strategic clusters to ensure adequate representation of the principal challenges, including cocoa-producing areas, national park buffer zones and deforestation fronts. The main municipalities concerned are Mbangassina, Yoko, Ngambé-Tikar and Bokito.
The overall objective is to address the structural drivers of deforestation while promoting local economic development. More specifically, the project aims to:
- reduce the deforestation and degradation of High Conservation Value (HCV) forests and High Carbon Stock (HCS) forests;
- promote sustainable agriculture and agroecological practices, particularly in cocoa production and food-crop farming;
- strengthen land-use planning through local land-use and sustainable development plans (PLADDT); and
- pilot financing mechanisms based on environmental performance, including payments for environmental services.
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