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Displaying 271 - 275 of 358Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality Targets of Georgia through Restoration and Sustainable Management of Deg
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Support the national efforts to implement LDN targets of Georgia through restoration and sustainable management of the degraded pasturelands (National Targets 1 and 4)
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Describe the socioeconomic benefits to be delivered by the project at the national and local levels, as appropriate. How do these benefits translate in supporting the achievement of global environment benefits (GEF Trust Fund) or adaptation benefits (LDCF/SCCF)? Please also explain explain how the project promotes full and productive employment and decent work in rural areas, aiming at the progressive realization of their right to Decent Rural Employment [1]. Grazing lands in Georgia provide forage for beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, goats, horses and other types of domestic livestock, but also carry other important ecosystem functions. Conservation values of these lands are extensive and provide many essential ecosystem services, such as clean water, wildlife habitat, and recreational opportunities. Scenic, cultural, and historic values of these lands provide not only economic benefits, but also quality of life values cherished by many people. The proposed project will provide global environmental and socio-economic benefits in the form of the following benefits: Environmental/Biophysical · Effective Land Degradation Neutrality system in place · Healthy, productive pasturelands (747 ha restored and 20,000 ha under SLM) · Increased CO2 sequestration in pasturelands Socio-economic · Improved livestock value chains · Improved food & nutritional security · Improved livelihoods · Reduced risk (natural disasters, market volatility, access to information and finance) · Improved access to finance for small scale livestock owners · Gender equality [1] Specific guidance on how FAO can promote the Four Pillars of Decent Work in rural areas is provided in the Quick reference for addressing decent rural employment (as well as in the full corresponding Guidance document). For more information on FAO’s work on decent rural employment and related guidance materials please consult the FAO thematic website at: http://www.fao.org/rural-employment/en/.
Strengthening the management capacities of the Cultural Affirmation initiatives that improve the socio-cultura
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Asociacin No Gubernamental Rural Amaznica Andina Choba Choba (Choba-Choba) will help communities living in the buffer zone of the Cordillera Azul national park to recover and reestablish traditional land management and agricultural production practices, promote agricultural biodiversity, and carry out natural resource conservation and sustainable economic development activities. The project will benefit 3,680 community members who live in the districts of Pilluana and Tres Unidos, in the Mishikiyacu Valley of San Martin Region.
Women's Voice and Leadership - Tanzania - Women Fund Tanzania (WFT)
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Women’s Rights to Land For Economic Empowerment project aim to ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for productive resource, employment and land in particular. The grant applied to LCSL will support the implementation of Women’sRights To Land For Economic Empowerment. This project among other things will support the organization to identify differences among women and men as to accessing land in the Tanzania under the customary land tenure system, identify the contributions of on-going land reforms in increasing women’s access to land in their respective areas (villages), assess the constraints and opportunities affecting access to land by women econamicaly and socially and assess the influence of religion and intermarriage on women’s access toland for economics earning as well as to identify and form women’s mechanisms/groups to protect women against any possible loss of their access rights; and Among the activities that will be implemented in this project includeto build advocacy capacity of pastoralist women and young mother and support their engagement on women’s land rights for economic empowerment, strengthen the advocacy approaches of women’s network on land rights for economic empowerment, create four (4) groups of women within our cooperative to promote entrepreneurship through land. Four (4) groups will have access to land for economic activities, training pastoralist women and young mothers on entrepreneurship through land, organize maasai festival and provide public award to 2 creative business ideas generated by pastoralists maasai women and young mothers through land. The aim is to break the stigma and taboos around women’s rights to land and to support the trained 4 pastoralists women and young mother groups to access capital for their business. This will include link them with the financial institutions, support them with materials for business startup, link them with local government authority of development fund.
Promotion of Integrated Biodiversity Conservation and Land Degradation Neutrality in Highly Degraded Landscape
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Strengthen governmental and non-governmental capacities to achieve biodiversity conservation and land degradation neutrality in Middle Euphrates landscape through integrated landscape management.
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The global environmental benefits that this project will bring should result at the local level, in the medium term, in enhanced ecosystem services and improvement of availability of natural resources in the areas within and surrounding the 2 new established PAs and also in the areas surrounding the pilot SLM areas. Local communities will enjoy in these areas a healthier environment and improved conditions for livelihoods based on natural resources. Moreover, local communities, thanks to the project, will be less vulnerable and more adapted to climate extremes. Farmers in particular (an estimated 5000 of them) will enjoy an increase in quality, productivity and sustainability of crops production. The success of these case studies, as also of those from the sister projects (FAO and IFAD), will prompt a spread, through scaling up and replication, in ecologically similar areas of the country; and therefore, during the medium to long term hopefully there will be positive outcomes also at regional and national level.The proposed alternative scenario - with the GEF project - will support the design and initial steps for the integration of biodiversity conservation and land degradation neutrality at national level, contributing to the ongoing transition process by:· Support the GoI’s capacity to effectively integrate biodiversity conservation and land degradation neutrality into sectoral policies· Establish 2 new PAs significantly contributing to the extension of the national PA network coverage and the number of species of global importance that will be under effective conservation management in the country; support in engage and involve the local stakeholders; development of management plans and prompting their implementation; support in providing trained staff and equipment to the new PA· Piloting a testing ground for SLM methodologies, tools, and stakeholder involvement mechanisms, thus creating a model to improve agro-ecosystem services and demonstrate sustainable flow of agro-ecosystem services to sustain food production and livelihoods. · Supporting the MoE in managing and use knowledge and in raising public and authorities’ awareness on the value of biodiversity and the importance of maintaining ecosystems and their services for human well-being into national planning processes and achieving sustainable use of land and biodiversity resources in the country.
Harnessing IDRC-Supported Research on Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Accountability in Africa
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Commercial interest and investments in Africa's agricultural lands have intensified in quantity, speed, and size over the past five years, particularly in the wake of the 2008 food crisis. This project will address concerns over the phenomenon. It aims to enhance leadership skills that will help build more equitable policies and practices for communities around large-scale land investments in Africa. Large-scale land acquisitions Foreign and domestic investors, both public and private, are acquiring control of vast stretches of fertile land for agricultural production in developing countries. While agricultural investments can contribute to economic development and reduce poverty, many investments have failed to live up to expectations and are not generating sustainable benefits. In many instances, these land deals are leaving local people worse off than they would have been without the investment. Pressures on agricultural land are expected to continue to meet the needs of growing populations. There is also the issue of diminishing supplies of fertile land caused by pressures on water sources, encroaching urbanization, and changing weather patterns related to climate change. Investments to date have served to highlight existing weaknesses in the management and governance of agricultural lands and on local communities' ability to secure land rights. More accountable, equitable investments This project will advance IDRC's work on this issue in sub-Saharan Africa to make land investment processes more accountable and equitable, and to prevent displacement and conflict. It will build on five action research projects covering 10 countries. Project teams will work with communities to increase their power to negotiate equitable terms and protect their rights and interests. It will fund the following activities: -Land Research Summit in Dakar, Senegal, to share initial research results and lessons learned, as well as foster policy discussions -Blogs and op-eds to raise awareness about research findings -Conference participation to share the research and findings