Togo is a country with a low forest cover (just 7% of total land area in 2010) coupled with one of the world’s highest proportion of forest loss relative to forest area. In this small country situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, trees are at the center of the landscape in all rural areas. Deforestation and forest degradation, driven primarily by slash-and-burn agriculture and charcoal production, therefore present major development challenges for the country.
