Key milestones and progress through APOI
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INSTITUTIONAL AND REGULATORY REFORMS:
Establishment of EdoGIS, ESOPP a new Forestry Commission and a Forestry Bill to replace the 1968 Forestry law. Commitment to RSPO certification.
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PROTECTION OF RIGHTS:
Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) must be given by Indigenous Peoples and local communities before agricultural development
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PRODUCE, PROTECT, REHABILITATE (PPR): INTEGRATION OF FOREST MANAGEMENT AND OIL PALM DEVELOPMENT:
Companies must integrate smallholder development into operations, protect forest areas within concessions and provide resources to restore degraded forest equivalent to 10 -25% of land holding.
ASCI in Nigeria
ASCI’s facilitator in Edo State, Nigeria is Churchill Ebehitale OBOH of IDN.
To support the national platform please contact him on churchillsimple@gmail.com
