A key aim at the midpoint of the seven-year FOLUR impact program and its global platform is to sharpen the overall focus on effective strategies for project implementation across the production landscapes of cocoa, coffee, livestock, maize, palm oil, rice, soy and wheat in 27 countries. To achieve this goal, over the 2024-2025 fiscal year, project leaders attended regional dialogues and workshops in Ethiopia, Paraguay, Türkiye and Viet Nam, participating in sessions, seminars, and field visits across a range of ecosystems.
Exchanges of practical knowledge and achievements on FOLUR targets aim to ensure productivity, environmental benefits, support to small-scale farmers, as well as policy and private sector engagement for the betterment of agricultural and forested landscapes while boosting economic growth.
“FOLURization,” a prototype for incorporating effective integrated landscape management principles into restoration efforts that go beyond the 27 FOLUR countries, is also a key topic, as a way to expand the reach of global environmental benefits. These efforts include increasing low-carbon, climate-resilient targets boosting public-private initiatives and meeting traceability goals.
The global platform aims to broaden its impact by providing technical assistance to other World Bank country projects that want to embrace Integrated Landscape Management (ILM).
Find out more in the latest FOLUR Spring Update.
