trees – IUAF

In the Botanic Forest of Divo, project team and MINEF rangers walk through a field that would have once held Raffia palms. Remnant trees are mostly native Terminalia species. Credit - Cathy Watson.

What happens when even the mother trees disappear?

As Côte d’Ivoire’s farmers are finding out, that means trouble. By Patrick Worms, President of the International Union for Agroforestry West Africa’s coast used to be thickly forested, with rainforests hugging beaches and…

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