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This project addresses risks in the soy supply chain from Argentina. The social and environmental risks primarily take place in the primary production process. This project focuses to avoid – and where needed restore – the impacts of soy on forests / ecosystems and people. However, the soy trade chain is a complex one due to a number of factors, among which:• Soy is produced in countries where sustainable land governance, including legal compliance to forest and labour legislation, is a challenge;• Suppliers of soy often do not sell their produce to the same customers each year;• Soy (meal) is mainly used for livestock feed, making it invisible for the end consumer, mostly requiring business to business solutions;• Soy is a low margin-high volume bulk commodity; gathered and transported in huge quantities. This makes separation of sustainable streams costly, and• The fear of additional costs in the sector is paramount, from farmers, to traders, to processors to retailers.This project will explore several temporary models / stepping stones to achieve field impact. These include "area mass balance" (supporting farmers to become certified in areas that link to the physical trade chain), and "direct trade" (companies directly supporting responsible production with credits and positive impact investments), as well as stepwise improvements and restoration of damage with farmers in risk zones.

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Women smallholder Farmers in Zombo District face climate change challenges that have affected their food production and income capacities. These challenges range from prolonged dry spells affecting crop germination, too much and erratic rains which causeflooding and damage root tuber crops such as cassava, yam, and potatoes. Dry spells and waterlogging result in crop diseases which can affectother crops, especially since women producers lack the capacity to control such infestations. These, coupled with ineffective agronomic practices and accelerating climate change impacts and damages, affect the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and their households. The project aims at enhancing the food and income security of 200 women smallholder farmers using the CRAEM model. Oxfam has piloted this model with smallholder women and men food producers, and the model has proven to enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change impacts and improve productivity. The model emphasizes working with andstrengthening community leadership structures and emphasizes practices and technologies within the means of beneficiaries which can be scaled without further external support Land degradation, poor soil health, and high dependence on rain-fed agriculture has increased the vulnerability of rural households to food insecurity and poverty, eroding productive assets and weakening their coping strategies and resilience. Onset, duration, and intensity of rains vary considerably from year to year, and the increased frequency of erratic weather patterns, including drought and flooding, have negatively impacted the national economy and the livelihoods of the people. New measures are needed to help farmers and consumers cope with the changes in emerging and projected weather patterns. Oxfam would like to support 200 women smallholder farmers to practice climate-smart agriculture to maximise their productivity and increase nutrition and income using the Climate Resilient Agro Ecological Model (CRAEM)

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Women for Green Economy Movement Uganda (WoGEM Uganda).WoGEM Uganda is dedicated at influencing and promoting women and girls'participation in a greener economy to promote social and economicdevelopment.Our CampaignBridging the gap between Women in Leadership andthe local women infighting for Climate Justice.BackgroundClimate change is a global issue and has greatly affected the local andmarginalized women and girlsIn Uganda, it is attributed to different factors such as deforestation, swampreclamation,development projects which include East Africa Crude OilPipeline (EACOP), construction of hydro dams and roads.These projects have caused injustices among the local and vulnerablewomen such as violation of human, environmental and land rights,compulsory land grabbing leading to food insecurities , limited access toclean water among others.There is less/no engagement between the government, developmentpartners and the vulnerable women during the planning of these projects yetthe women are the most affectedby the impacts of the projects that arecarried out in their ancestral land.ActionThis campaign will help to bridge the gap between the most affectedvulnerable women andwomen in leadership so that their voices andgrievances can be presented to the decision makers.How this Campaign will pilot or incorporate the use of the feministinfluencing basket?This campaign is envisioned at empowering vulnerable women withknowledge and skills to know their human, environmental and land rights sothat they can speak upwith confidence to claim what belongs to them henceattaining justice.What you will use the funds for?We will carryout a 3 day conference bringing together women in leadershipand the vulnerable women to share experiences and ideas on climate changeimpactsand come up with locally led solutions to the existing impacts.More so, we will build a Feminist Movement where the vulnerable women areable to share their climate change stories and struggles withwomen inleadership to build resilience while fighting for climate justice.Further more , we will carryout media campaigns and produce advocacymaterials to create public awareness about climate change and the injusticesfaced by vulnerable women thereby reducing onthe shrinking civic spacefaced by many feministgroups.Lastly, we will also train women and girls on green economic alternatives likeweaving to replace polythene bags and making of briquets to reducecharcoal burning there by protecting and preserving the environment fromclimate change impacts. More sothese projects will empower womenfinancially to reduce on gender based violence in families.