The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nation announced that Nigeria and 14 other ECOWAS members are to benefit from an eight-million-dollar five-year forest protection project.
The world body said that three agencies, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Sida, the organisation and ECOWAS had joined forces to protect West Africa’s forests to help safeguard the livelihoods of millions of people, depending on them.
The organisation named Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana and other ECOWAS states as the beneficiaries of the planned support programme.
It said the three institutions would carry out project, aimed at strengthening sustainable forest and land management.
They would also address trans-boundary forest threats to maximize the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities.
