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Covering an area of 342,000 km2 , the Republic of Congo (also known as Congo) is located in the heart of the world's second-largest rainforest, after the Amazon basin. The country is also home to part of the world's largest tropical peatland, an ecosystem that absorbs and stores large amounts of carbon. With a population of 5.7 million in 2022, the country has one of the lowest population densities in Africa. In terms of land tenure, the underpopulation of rural areas helps preserve forests but poses challenges to agricultural production and food security.
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Land Area
34,150,000 ha
GINI Index
48.9
GDP/Capita
5,024.1 USD
Total population
5,244,363
Urban population
66.9 %
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Agricultural land
31.1 %
Perceived tenure security
55.8 %
Primary forests
7,407,000 ha
Women owning land
3.2 %

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Call for applications: Africa consultancy roster
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Photo ID 557871 UN Photo/Tobin Jones (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED) Are you passionate about upholding Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LC) rights and supporting the protection of forests and biodiversity and the governance of IPLC land and forests in the African continent?   Do you have…
The artisanal operators of the Soremi / DR site 2
Industrie minière : suspension de l’exploitation artisanale des polymétaux sur le territoire national
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Outre la suspension de l’exploitation artisanale, le gouvernement a décidé de sécuriser les investissements de Soremi; rétablir l’ordre dans la zone des activités de cette société; interdire l’artisanat minier des polymétaux dans les sites du périmètre minier de Soremi. L’exécutif a également pris…
Le Dr Elie Jean-Pierre Nongou/Adiac
Gestion foncière : adopter une procédure inclusive dans l’élaboration des lois
13 December 2022
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Research published in 2017 established the existence, area and depth of the world's largest peatland, straddling swamp forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Congo. Given the importance of these discoveries, the government of the Republic of Congo committed to protecting them in the Brazzaville Declaration and the Resolution UNEP/EA.4/RES.16 on the conservation and sustainable management of peatlands of 15 March 2019. 

Towards Rights-Based Conservation in the Congo Basin
A presentation by the Rainforest Foundation UK and Réseau Ressources Naturelles (RRN).   To be sustainable, nature conservation must also support the rights, livelihoods and cultures of local communities. International conservation organisations recognise this, but have these good intentions been…