RIBAUE SKY ISLAND - Promote the sustainable management of Monts Ribaue and M'paluwe by involving local communities
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Main goals
The Ribaue massif is composed of Mount Ribaue and Mount M'paluwe. It is located in the north of Mozambique, near the town of Ribaue in the province of Nampula. The mountains rise in a relatively flat landscape from 500 to 600 m in altitude up to 1675 m for Mount M'paluwe. They are part of a belt of granitic rocky outcrops, inselbergs and mountains, which cross the Nampula and Zambezia provinces from north-east to north-west and include Mt Inago (1804m), Mt Namuli (2419m) and Mt Mabu (1700m). The Ribaue Massif is home to endemic and endangered species. It is covered by a mosaic of mid-altitude rainforest, Miombo forests and cultivated areas. However, the expansion of subsistence agriculture on the slopes of the Ribaue Massif is a major threat to biodiversity and forest habitats. Since 2019, Nitidæ, with the support of the NGO Legado, has been studying the agrarian and landscape dynamics of the Ribaue Massif, in order to promote the sustainable management of the Ribaue and M'paluwe Mountains by involving local communities. Nitidæ is also working for the preservation of Mount Namuli Biodiversity in Zambezie province in Mozambique.
Specific objectives
SO1. Promote economic and sustainable development less dependent on deforestation
SO2. Promote better community management of natural resources
SO3. Identify vulnerable sites, conserve ecosystem services and limit pressures on biodiversity
Beneficiaries
Surrounding communities of the Ribaue and M'paluwe Mountains
Results
R1. Existing deforestation productions are identified and support measures are proposed
R2. Priority conservation and restoration sites are defined and a monitoring system is set up to trace and monitor deforestation
Activities
A1. Typology and socio-economic studies to identify agricultural support measures to reduce deforestation
A2. Elaboration of a land use baseline (mapping of land use in 2019)
A3. Study of historical deforestation and implementation of a forest cover monitoring system
A4. Study of pressure factors on biodiversity (NTFPs, hunting, charcoal, deforestation, fires, etc.) and implementation of a monitoring system for these pressures
Related documents
Exploratory diagnosis of agrarian dynamics of the Mount Ribaue and M'Paluwe region - Intermediary report
Historical and future deforestation analysis of Ribaue Mountains (Mount Ribaue and Mount M’paluwe)
Land Use and Land Cover Map of Ribaue Mountains (Mount Ribaue and Mount M’paluwe)
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Jean-Baptiste Roelens
Holder of a master Tropical environment and Biodiversity, he worked for 3 years in French Guyana, notably as forest ecology and soil science research officer at CIRAD. From 2008 to 2016 he worked at the WWF in Madagascar, France and Democratic Republic of Congo as Forest and Climate program manager. At WWF, he supported conservation, forest landscape restoration and REDD+ projects, he also conducted campaign and advocacy work on forest policies and energy infrastructure development. He joined Etc Terra - then nitidæ - in May 2016 as MOZBIO project manager around the Gilé national reserve in the Zambézia province in Mozambique.
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Margaux Béringuier
Agricultural Engineer graduated from the “Institut des Régions Chaudes” from Montpellier Supagro School, specialized in the management of agricultural resources and rural development in the South, Margaux joined the Nitidæ Mozambique team in January 2019, bringing her field expertise to the diagnosis of agricultural dynamics and to the definition and implementation of support measures for producers in our Nitidæ intervention zones in Mozambique. Today, she manages the NAMULI project and the second component of the ACAMOZ II project in the macadamia sector
Clovis Grinand
PhD in Functional Ecology and Agronomic Sciences (SupAgro, IRD and CIRAD) and specialized in Localized Information Systems for Spatial Planning (AgroParisTech), he is an expert in land use change monitoring using remote sensing, digital soil mapping and spatial modeling applied to forestry, agronomy and landscape ecology. He is the author of numerous international scientific publications.
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Frédérique Montfort
Doctor of AgroParisTech in environmental sciences, she brings her expertise on the biodiversity component and on the degradation and restoration of forest landscapes. She joined N’Lab de Nitidæ in 2017 to carry out her thesis with the association, UR Forêts & Sociétés and UMR Tétis on the degradation and restoration of Miombo forest landscapes in Mozambique. She is currently conducting studies and technical support (capacity building, technology transfer) on various projects of the association
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Marie Nourtier
PhD in Forest sciences conducted at INRA Avignon, EMMAH research lab, she brings her expertise in forest ecology, support for REDD+ mechanism and carbon accounting, Environmental and social impact assessment of projects, project management and supervision of technical work
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Palmira Marinho Gravata Vitória
Graduated in economics and education from the Pedagogical University of Mozambique, with 7 years of experience as an administrative assistant, since 2019 she has been responsible for administration, finance, human resources management and relations public.
Valéry Bourotte
Graduate Engineer Agronomist, Sustainable Agrifood and Agronomic Systems in the South (SAADS) of the Institut des Régions Chaudes (IRC) Montpellier SupAgro, he brings his expertise to the teams' methodological support on the diagnosis realization at the territory and plot scalesto co-construct projects with producers
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