Issues and Perspectives
In 2008, CMP established the organization TANDAVANALA, which continued CMP’s achievements by focusing its activities in the peripheral areas of the corridor. CMP Tandavanala identified the constraints and opportunities in the area, such as: isolation, poverty, obsolescence of cash crops, a high population density (with large household sizes), but also the need for conservation of unique biodiversity, fertile lands, tropical climate, export-friendly industrial crops, and the potential for organic production.
Since the creation of TANDAVANALA, several activities have been initiated with communities, addressing areas such as food and nutrition security, income improvement, forestry and land management, capacity building for grassroots communities, promotion of improved cookstoves, and carbon market processes.
As a perspective, TANDAVANALA sees favorable outcomes for the sustainable development of municipalities geographically close to the ecoregion in several areas:
- Continuation and optimization of sustainable agriculture in production areas (food crops and cash crops)
- Professionalization of farmers (quality and standards) and their gradual integration into the market economy
- Promotion of “Eco” certification, adding value to local production (production based on land management and conservation of natural resources)
- Adoption of an environmental tax from the use of water provided by the corridor (payment for environmental services) to finance the corridor’s conservation activities
