Many of them live in rural areas where the poverty rate is 17.2 per cent – more than three times higher than in urban areas. One way to relieve this pressure and alleviate poverty is to recognize and further optimize the critical role of forests and trees as allies in the fight against poverty. This is the central finding of a new global assessment report entitled “Forests, Trees and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations”. The study consolidates available scientific evidence on the wide range of contributions forests and trees outside forests make to curbing poverty and on the effectiveness of diverse forest management policies, programs, technologies and strategies. The full range of its effects on forests and rural livelihoods remains to be seen.

Source: News Business Ethiopia October 15, 2020 06:33 UTC