The money is to be spent on supporting and strengthening local forest management schemes, developing new sustainable forestry techniques in the area, such as ruminant grazing corridors and drought management, and establishing a monitoring and evaluation system to track the progress being made in Caatinga.
“The programme responds to a need to control the rapid degradation of a unique ecosystem that provides a livelihood for 11 million people,” said John Briscoe, the World Bank‘s director for Brazil.
Caatinga covers an area of 800,000km², 11% of Brazil’s national territory, with the Bahia and Ceará states encompassing around half of the forest’s area.
