• The practice of traditional itinerant rain-fed agriculture by rural families, using unsustainable farming methods driven by rapid profit motives and/or demographic pressure on natural resources, particularly the expansion of unplanned subsistence slash-and-burn farming areas;
• The presence of large cassava cultivation areas in forested regions;
• The pressure of populations migrating from other areas in search of arable land;
• The limited capacity of traditional and local institutions to manage land and natural resources;
• Inappropriate seedling methods that require excessive use of wooden supports;
• The lack of information and/or training for the population and/or authorities;
• The absence of population support programs and/or balanced and well-adapted regulatory measures;
• The complete disappearance of some gallery forests, now replaced by grasslands/savannas;
• The presence and emergence of erosions, destroying ecosystem benefits and reducing arable land;
• The shortening of fallow periods practiced by rural families;
• The decline in agricultural production, leading to reduced income and, consequently, family impoverishment;
• The rural exodus of young people (towards major cities);
• For women in particular: in the context of itinerant rain-fed agriculture practiced by rural families, which is highly vulnerable to climate change, rural women farmers face multiple discriminations regarding economic empowerment (insecure access to land, lack of access to information technology, limited technical training, restricted access to agricultural credit, and difficulties in entering value-added activities and markets).

By providing adapted solutions to these factors, the NGO will enable the people of IDIOFA to better adapt to climate change and reduce ecosystem degradation.

The strong commitment to addressing these challenges in Idiofa in the short term and in the DRC in the long term, within the environmental and sustainable development sectors, has led us to establish the non-governmental development organization named FAJA LOBI, abbreviated as FALO/ONGD.