Developing Countries: Forests

International Development written question – answered at on 14 July 2014.

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Photo of Frank Field Frank Field Labour, Birkenhead

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what rainforest projects her Department is supporting.

Photo of Lynne Featherstone Lynne Featherstone The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development

DFID supports the following projects that target the drivers of deforestation in rainforests: the Forest Investment Programme; the Congo Basin Forest Fund; the Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Programme; the Improving Governance of Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry Programme in Indonesia; and the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility.

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