- the provision of education and training in sustainable agricultural techniques and resource management,
- the introduction of new technologies that improve food production and processing,
- the provision of agricultural extension services to forest farmers,
- the provision of a micro-finance system to give access to capital,
- the provision of technical support to add value to non-timber forest products,
- the provision of support in marketing and accessing markets for non-timber forest products.
How can we make this happen?
The partnerships built with forest communties will transform their use of natural resources through sustainable development and land-use change to end poverty and disease.
Target poverty - African Renaissance will work to alleviate social and economic deprivation in forest dwelling communities in sub-Saharan Africa by all or any of the following means,