Around the world, things are speeding up: advances in technology but also the quest for profit, deforestation, air, water and soil pollution, forest fires, trafficking of threatened species, climate change, and the decline of wildlife, to name a few. It might be easy to give up and look the other way, focus on the tip of one’s nose or take refuge in television shows. This is why ADAP continues to support the implementation of management models that include village authorities in protected areas management, and the development of non-timber forest product chains such as those for honey and wild mushrooms. The latter was one of our 2024 flagship activities, as the production of dried mushrooms using solar dryers began to take off.
