ARUSHA, March 2 -- TANZANIA has taken a major step towards financing forest and landscape restoration in the country with the launch of the Capitalisation of Financial Instruments (CFI) Pilot Project. CFI is an initiative led by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).

The pilot programme is implemented in collaboration with the local communities, Forest and Farm Producer Organisations (FFPOs); Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs); Government and Financial institutions.

It builds on years of work under the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF), a global partnership programme that strengthens FFPOs to improve governance, climate resilience, sustainable entrepreneurship including access to finance and markets.

Since 202...