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More informationDriven by the search for better living conditions, the rural exodus is growing by the day, on the pretext that urban centres offer more advantages in terms of income-generating activities than rural areas, which are dependent on agriculture. This rural exodus is driven more by young people (girls and boys) and capable women of working age who could have taken up farming to meet the subsistence needs of their households. But often, at the ends of the earth, the urban El Dorado is nothing more than a chimera.
Faced with the various forms of land and forest grabbing by the elite to the detriment of ordinary people, the Congolese government has formalised community forestry as an effective strategy for empowering local communities in the sustainable management of forests.
In the wake of land dispossession, which is exacerbating the vulnerability of forest-dependent peoples in a context of climate change, legal security of forests and land is still needed to support the livelihoods of these peoples.