Around Madagascar's Masoala buffer zone, young people and youth-headed households face a pressing challenge: limited access to farmland leaves them with few options to build stable livelihoods. This affects their economic security and increases pressure on the surrounding natural environment.

The project works directly with these communities to design and test practical alternatives—from off-farm employment and rural entrepreneurship to skills training and new income-generating activities. By co-creating solutions with young people rather than designing them from the outside, the project aims to ensure that outcomes are grounded in local realities and built to last.

The goal is a set of livelihood approaches that expand opportunity for land-limited households, ease resource pressure, and can be adapted and replicated across similar contexts in the region.