Sustainable Agriculture and Food Safety Programme (Boma, Luki)
Geographical location:
Africa/Madagascar > Central Africa > Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)
Summary
This project aims to promote sustainable development in and around the Luki Biosphere Reserve, which integrates economic viability, social acceptability and ecological sustainability of human activities. The project is built on 3-year experiences, developed in the Bas Congo Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as part of the project called “Support to Sustainable Management and Conservation of Forest Ecosystem”. The problematic faced in Luki can be summarised as such: high human pressure driven by general poverty, bad governance and growing scarcity of natural resources.
One of the major lesson learned from our precedent work in Luki is that conservation in that particular context will not be possible without effective population participation and alternative solutions to current human needs.
From that particular problematic, WWF built a project able to complement efforts already made in protection. So the goal is to assure sustainable food security, based on local democratic organisation, group commercialisation and conservation coordination of natural resources.
The project is planned for a 4-year period, from January 2008 to December 2011. The execution is assured by WWF DRC and its partners, i.e. Groupe de Recherches et d’Actions pour un Développement Intégré des Communautés de base (GRADIC), Groupe de Recherche, d'Action et d'Etudes pour l'Eco Développement (GRAED), Centre de Developpment Integre de Lukula (CEDIL), and Helen Keller International (HKI).
Objectives
General objective
Promote sustainable development in and around the Luki Biosphere Reserve, which integrates economic viability, social acceptability and ecological sustainability.
Specific objective
Assure sustainable food security, based on local democratic organisation, group commercialisation and conservation coordination of natural resources, around the Luki reserve.
