BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The mandate of Forestry Commission is to sustainably develop and manage the nation’s forest resources, Manual Of Procedures (MOP) have been developed for the operational activities to manage the forest resources in the forest reserves in the country. It is also enshrined in MOP D that during stock survey, identified trees with very good phenotypes should be selected with inscription of ‘’ S” as seed trees where their seeds could be collected to be propagated artificially or allow them to provide viable seeds for natural regeneration. Resource Management Support Centre monitors these seed/Plus trees in the Production and Provenance Compartments in the forest reserves within the forest zones of Ghana

The Government of Ghana acknowledging the threats of climate change and the growing cost of natural resource degradation (10 per cent of GDP) adopted an integrated approach to a long-term goal of achieving sustainable development by aligning the country’s natural resource management and economic development strategies. Subsequently, Ghana applied to the Climate Investment Fund (CIF), and got approval for the implementation of a Forest Investment Program (FIP) in November 2012