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Madagascar’s dry-deciduous forests are now being destroyed rapidly through slash-and-burn agriculture for maize and beans for export/industry. Profits are mainly kept by entrepreneurs and farmers gain little. In the short term we will combat this destructive and abusive relationship by enabling farmers close to Bongolava Forest to gain better income from conserving and restoring their traditional lands and, in the longer term, access viable livelihoods from the propagation and sale of native trees in support of Madagascar’s ambitious reforestation targets