Agriforest
community LANDSCAPE management GAME
Objectives
Agriforest/COHAB is a game about village level land use decisions in Central Africa, inspiring conversations about rural development, human-wildlife interactions and community-led conservation.
Understanding
Understand the longterm impact of community level resource use and management.
community
Create a shared language of the challenges faced by the community and experience individualistic and collective organisation.
Solving
Explore pathways to balance rural development needs with conservation objectives.
How We Are Using It
We have used Agriforest to open up discussions about forest managment with local and indigenous communities. We have used the game both with local and indigenous communities as well as with high-level and institutional decision-makers.
- In 2024, we have used the Agriforest in combination with MineSet to support the forest policy development process in the DRC (see Story).
- Between 2020-2022, we have adapted the Agriforest game to integrate human-wildlife conflicts to facilitate conversations about cohabitation with chimpanzees in Guinea. The adapted version was called COHAB.
- In 2022, the COHAB game was then used to identify concrete conservation measures that communities would be willing to invest in, and was used to define alternative economic activities to develop a new approach to biodiversity and ecological impact offsetting in Guinea (Story).
- In 2025, we used the COHAB game to spark dialogue on ecological impact offsetting and compensation with mining companies and local communities as well as with institutional partners and ministry representatives.
Partners
Selected partners who have played Agriforest / COHAB
Resources
You can find here scientific publications, articles, videos and blogs about our approach, our methods and our projects.