From July 31 to August 6, 2024 at ERAIFT and the Kisantu Botanical Garden, members of the said project participated in a training on alternative food value chains to bushmeat with the aim of providing them with the necessary skills to identify, analyze, design a vision, an upgrade strategy and a development plan for a value chain.

The training was funded by University of California, Los Angeles campus (UCLA) in collaboration with the Congo Basin Institute (CBI). Five (5) main activities were organized, namely (1) a theoretical overview on the analysis of food value chains, (2) a guided tour of some tourist and nature conservation sites, (3) a practical exercise in identifying and analyzing value chains, (4) a restitution session and (5) a final evaluation.

This training thus enabled the project members to better prepare themselves to promote the encouraging results of the project through the production of books and/or articles, dissemination and various presentations.

ERAIFT rightly thanks University of Oxford, WCS, GCRF, UNEP-WCMC, UCLA, CBI and European Union for their support to Congolese youth training.