Public-private alliance for the conservation and sustainable management of Central Africa's forests - P3FAC

The P3FAC project is based on a collaboration between research organizations, national forest administrations and forest operators. It aims to improve the guidelines for forest management that regulate more than 18 million ha of forest concessions in the Congo Basin. To accomplish this, it relies on and will strengthen the network of permanent monitoring devices of forest dynamics installed by the DynAfFor project between 2013 and 2018.
Laurent Teillier ​​​​​​​Cirad

Laurent Teillier © Cirad

Issues

Improving the sustainability of forestry management by mobilising public and private players to promote the consolidated results of research on forest dynamics

Description

The sustainable management of production forests requires a balance between the harvesting carried out by the operators and the development of the forest. Forest management plans seek this balance based on scientific data, by calculating the rate of reconstitution of the initially exploitable timber potential. The oldest management plans currently in use in Central Africa have been in existence for about fifteen years.

During their first revision, various problems concerning their quality and sustainability appear: the lack of scientific knowledge on forest dynamics is the main cause. The DynAfFor project (2014-2019) was implemented to fill this gap by installing a new type of permanent monitoring devices.

The P3FAC project intends to continue the programme of scientific data collection and analysis for management plans initiated under the DynafFor project, while extending it to other issues: synthesis of silvicultural trials, consideration of the regeneration of species favoured by wildlife, the impact of hunting and logging on the latter, and the management of non-timber forest products for local populations.

Expected impacts

The project will enable the study of the implementation of sustainable, pragmatic and economically viable improvement practices for forest management plans, in order to integrate them into the public policies of Central African countries, for the benefit of the populations living in the vicinity of these forest areas.

Partners: ATIBT, Gembloux Agro-bio Tech, Nature+, University of Bangui, University of Kisangani, UMNG, USTM, University of Yaoundé I, Institut de Recherche Agronomique et en Développement (IRAD) et Herbier National IRET, ICRA, IRF, INERA, , AlpiCam-GrumCam, CFT, CIB-Olam, IFO-Danzer, Mokabi SA, Pallisco, Precious Woods Gabon, Rougier-Gabon, Wijma

Partners: ATIBT, Gembloux Agro-bio Tech, Nature+, University of Bangui, University of Kisangani, UMNG, USTM, University of Yaoundé I, Institut de Recherche Agronomique et en Développement (IRAD) et Herbier National IRET, ICRA, IRF, INERA, , AlpiCam-GrumCam, CFT, CIB-Olam, IFO-Danzer, Mokabi SA, Pallisco, Precious Woods Gabon, Rougier-Gabon, Wijma