The vast majority of Africa’s tropical moist and tropical rainforests exist in West and Central Africa. Western and Central Africa alone accounts for about 8% of all forests in the world, and 25% of global tropical forests. However, the region is fast losing its forest resources through unsustainable land use practices.
The Partnerships for Forests programme aims to reverse this trend in Western and Central Africa by leveraging private sector investment in Forest Partnerships in the cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber and timber value chains.
The forests of Central Africa are the world’s second largest moist tropical forests, exceeded in area only by the Amazon Basin forests.
Case studies
Unlocking Carbon Finance in Ghana
Lessons learned from incubating a regenerative cocoa business model in Ghana which helped unlock performance-based payments for carbon emission reductions in Ghana’s High Forest Zone from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Carbon Fund.
