USAID Work in Reforestation: With Programmatic Examples
USAID works with countries to protect, manage, and restore their forests. Sound management of environmental and natural resources is integral to a country’s development, resilience, and self-reliance. Forests provide a wealth of benefits. Forests protect water resources and biodiversity, improve health and nutrition, sequester carbon, provide timber and other products that contribute to people’s livelihoods, and protect communities from weather and climate extremes. USAID focuses its biodiversity and sustainable landscapes programs on the conservation of globally important forests and the benefits they provide. Whenever possible, programs work across an entire landscape to achieve results at scale. Landscape-level programs often center around the protection of natural standing forests, complemented by sustainable management and reforestation in surrounding areas. Protecting mature, natural forests provides the most benefit for the least cost, especially with regard to biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, and water resources preservation.
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USAID Work in Reforestation: With Programmatic Examples
USAID works with countries to protect, manage, and restore their forests. Sound management of environmental and natural resources is integral to a country’s development, resilience, and self-reliance. Forests provide a wealth of benefits. Forests protect water resources and biodiversity, improve health and nutrition, sequester carbon, provide timber and other products that contribute to people’s livelihoods, and protect communities from weather and climate extremes. USAID focuses its biodiversity and sustainable landscapes programs on the conservation of globally important forests and the benefits they provide. Whenever possible, programs work across an entire landscape to achieve results at scale. Landscape-level programs often center around the protection of natural standing forests, complemented by sustainable management and reforestation in surrounding areas. Protecting mature, natural forests provides the most benefit for the least cost, especially with regard to biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, and water resources preservation.
