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<p>Stopping deforestation is essential to protect biodiversity, tackle climate change
and promote sustainable economic development. DFID works to address the underlying
causes of deforestation, such as stopping illegal logging and related corruption,
ending unsustainable practices in the production of palm oil, cocoa and other agricultural
commodities, and helping local communities to secure recognised legal rights to the
forests which they depend on for their livelihoods.</p><p>For example, support to
the Mapping for Rights initiative has helped over 1,000 communities in the Congo Basin
map their forest lands covering more than seven million hectares. The communities
use these maps as the basis for claims to secure their rights and to help ensure that
the forests they depend on are not allocated to logging concessions.</p><p>Work to
tackle deforestation is funded through the Forest Governance, Markets and Climate
programme (£250m, 2011-21), which is tackling illegal logging and promoting trade
in legal timber and Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use (£107m, 2015-23),
through which DFID funds Partnerships for Forests (P4F). P4F works with companies
to develop new and sustainable approaches to growing agricultural commodities, which
protect forests and provide sustainable livelihoods. DFID also funds work to protect
forests through the Indonesia country programme.</p>
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