Thursday, August 15, 2019: 9:20 AM
M105/106, Kentucky International Convention Center
Jean Aristide Nicaise Aman, University Cheick Anta Diop Dakar (UCAD)Senegal, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL);
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Background/Question/Methods Forests importance cannot be underestimated for human survival and climate change mitigation. Because of anthropogenic activities, forests areas in the tropics are shrinking worldwide. Many countries in West Africa have suffered from deforestation and Côte d’Ivoire is perhaps the best example of exponential deforestation. The need to find a solution to limit urgently carbon emissions due to anthropogenic activities has led to the international initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). Côte d'Ivoire became a REDD Program partner country in June 2011, and has developed a REDD+ Readiness Plan following a participatory approach. Our research aims to analyze the effectiveness of REDD+ program in Côte D’Ivoire by using a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) methodology. The data were collected from 138 REDD+ projects beneficiaries from La Mé region in southern Côte d’Ivoire.
Results/Conclusions The findings show that the benefits (use and non-use like the gain in agricultural production, carbon emissions reduction and sequestration, and finally the goods conservation and the environmental services provided by forests) of the REDD+ projects in the study area are higher than the costs of implementation, land security and territories zoning. The benefit cost ratio is higher than one. The policies recommendations that can be drawn from these results are to imply local population in forests management, conservation and restoration by sensitization and collaboration. The benefits will be then profitable for everyone and for climate change mitigation.