Non-timber forest products exploitation and limits to tackle deforestation

LoRiscales, Afro-Colombian community in Chocó region of Colombia, is characterized by geographical isolation and institutional abandonment. The result is an economic development ecologically unsustainable with increasing deforestation drivers. Faced with this consequence, Los Riscales general community council is partnering with ICCO Cooperation to find an economic, social and environmental sustainable solution. Based on a participatory methodology, different solutions have been defined in order to solve a problem with transversal thematic. Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) exploitation is one of the outcomes of this alliance. The concrete formulation of this initiative through bibliographic work also raises its limits brining up a reflection on REDD+ mechanism and its resolve conflicts capacity at local level.