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Displaying 306 - 310 of 359Scaling Up Fertilizer Micro-Dosing and Indigenous Vegetable Production and Utilization in West Africa (CIFSRF
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Poor soil fertility and land degradation result in low production yields and quality for indigenous vegetables in West Africa. This project will address the challenges to improve vegetable production through fertilizer innovations. Increasing vegetable yields and quality This project will build on earlier research funded by the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF), a program of IDRC undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada provided through Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. Two earlier projects generated promising results to improve food security in West Africa for poor families. Using innovations developed in this earlier work, researchers will speed up adoption of innovative approaches that will use cost-saving fertilizer micro-dosing and better water management to improve indigenous vegetable production in Nigeria and Benin. The project team will develop, test, and deploy two different models (Innovations Platform and Satellite Dissemination Approach) that will reach and benefit more farmers with sustainable vegetable production and marketing approaches. They will connect women-led cooperatives and youth groups to the private sector and business organizations, directly reaching more than 255,000 households. The team's work will involve further developing commercial seed production, postharvest handling, and value chains. They will also strengthen producer groups. Project leadership A consortium of five universities in Canada, Benin, and Nigeria will lead the project. They will mobilize at least 20 private sector partners and government agencies to build small and medium vegetable and fertilizer businesses. Their work will serve to double the income of approximately one million farmers in West Africa along the vegetable value chain.
Scaling Up Fertilizer Micro-Dosing and Indigenous Vegetable Production and Utilization in West Africa (CIFSRF
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Poor soil fertility and land degradation result in low production yields and quality for indigenous vegetables in West Africa. This project will address the challenges to improve vegetable production through fertilizer innovations. Increasing vegetable yields and quality This project will build on earlier research funded by the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF), a program of IDRC undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada provided through Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. Two earlier projects generated promising results to improve food security in West Africa for poor families. Using innovations developed in this earlier work, researchers will speed up adoption of innovative approaches that will use cost-saving fertilizer micro-dosing and better water management to improve indigenous vegetable production in Nigeria and Benin. The project team will develop, test, and deploy two different models (Innovations Platform and Satellite Dissemination Approach) that will reach and benefit more farmers with sustainable vegetable production and marketing approaches. They will connect women-led cooperatives and youth groups to the private sector and business organizations, directly reaching more than 255,000 households. The team's work will involve further developing commercial seed production, postharvest handling, and value chains. They will also strengthen producer groups. Project leadership A consortium of five universities in Canada, Benin, and Nigeria will lead the project. They will mobilize at least 20 private sector partners and government agencies to build small and medium vegetable and fertilizer businesses. Their work will serve to double the income of approximately one million farmers in West Africa along the vegetable value chain.
CO-Women’s Livelihood and Climate Smart
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Project Description In Uganda, women’s land and property rights are not easily realizable despite having highly rated gender sensitive constitution. This is because of deeply rooted patriarchal attitudes in society that often relegate women’s land right to merely user rights and impracticalities in implementing well designed laws. Ironically it is women (75% - 80%) who produce foods for consumption in Uganda and beyond. The situation would be different if they enjoy all bundles of land rights, i.e. ownership, control and user rights. In other words, production would exponentially increased and then eliminate hunger and poverty. In fact according to UBOS, 2014, women’s ownership and control of land directly increases production by 40%. Human Development Survey United Nations Development Fund Report 2019, shows that only 20% of the women own land. This trend will likely and continuously jeopardize governmentefforts to agricultural development programs and other agrarian reforms. For example, the failure of Plan for Modernization of Agriculture (PMA) can partly be traced to lack of women ownerships and control which inextricably link to lack of and limited decisions of land use patterns. Some of the laws in Uganda are theoretically good but remains practically biased due to imbalanced practices that do not address the root causes of women’s lack of ownership and control of land such as deeply rooted negative cultural practices, norms and attitudes. Some of these practices are extremely negative and leads to violence, e.g. land related gender based violence. Because of this, the ultimate development goal of the National Land Policy 2013 is becoming difficult to attain. It is evident that the Government has done very little to tackle obviously discriminate legal and social regime regarding women’s land rights and in particularly any deliberate efforts to appreciate their and recognize their contribution to national development. Despite the fact that the Constitution and the Land Act offer adequate protection for women’s land and property the structures of land managementare weak and dysfunctional. Uganda is also a signatory to the CEDAW ( The Convention on Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women hence making Uganda internationally accountable. The great need to place issues affecting women on land and property ownership and control at the center of any land reform initiative and or domestic laws like the Domestic relations Bill have prevented by lack of political will. Sincepolicy makers have failed to do so, they ultimately are being professionally negligent, misusing poverty reduction resources, and achieving their national development objectives. The objective is to enhance capacity of women landright movements that will collectively advocate and negotiate for practical women’s ownership and control of land. Specifically to; i) Mobilize, organise and support grassroots women land rights movement for enhanced advocacy capacity ii) Strengthen CSOs capacityto support grassroot movements and advocate for women land rights regulatory frameworks and guidelines at all levels iii) Build/strengthen stakeholders’ leadership capacity on women land rights programming, Problem Analysis 11. Using Oxfam’s narrative power to shape and/or promote certain storylines and what those stories tell us about power and rights, and to push for actions to be taken. 2. Using Oxfam’s mobilizing power to strengthen and amplify women’s voices and to support their access to policy spaces to share their experiences and promote their demands. 3. Using Oxfam’s power and experience working with private sector actors to hold businesses accountable for how they strengthen, or undermine, women’s access to and control of land, and advocating forreform of their business models that further inequality and injustice through ensuring gender justice in their land-based investments. 4. Using Oxfam’s power to engage with the public sector to inject gender justice and a land rights agenda in governinginstitutions. We will demand and influence the implementation of laws, policies and participatory decision-making processes, advocate for effective global, regional,national, and local policies to secure women’s land rights, and promote women’s participation in law and policy-making processes. Expected Results • A Paper or Policy Briefs or other communication materials for engaging in the Beijing +25. • A meeting respondingto the process of women's land rights in Beijing +25 process at country level(Uganda), regional(East Africa) and global level. • Contribute to documenting a magazine which will be online published capturing stories of women land rights defenders from across Uganda. • Documentation of cases of WLR in context of climate change or LSLBI • Webinar sharing the learning and evidence gathered from implementation of the LSLBI tool in Uganda. • Preparation of Shadow reports(SDGs on Land Shadow report) from Uganda. • Virtual meeting with other countries working in the same subject.
The Jama Conservation Corridor: Reforestation and Agroforestry to Reconnect Remnant Semi-deciduous Tropical Fo
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The rate of deforestation in Ecuador linked to unsustainable livestock and agricultural practices and illegal timber harvesting is one of the highest in South America; between 1990 and 2010 Ecuador lost 3.3% of its forest cover (978,537 acres). Deforestation and the ensuing land degradation reduces soil productivity leading to increased poverty and food insecurity in rural areas, while also threatening already endangered wildlife. The purpose of this project is to create the Jama Conservation Corridor spanning 69,189 acres in coastal Ecuador by supporting local, interested landowners with activities that will conserve and reforest parts of their land while encouraging sustainable livelihoods. This project will connect the last remnants of semi-deciduous tropical forests in coastal Ecuador through forest restoration, regeneration of abandoned cattle pastures, and groforestry, including silvopasture. Specific activities include: reforesting prioritized areas within the corridor; collecting baseline data for the flora and fauna in reforested areas; providing training to landowners in agroforestry; and facilitating educational outreach activities with local landowners, schools, and decision-makers on sustainable land use practices.
Fortalecimiento a la estructura trinacional para la implementacin del Corredor Biolgico Trinacional Montecrist
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Project will support improved connectivity between protected areas of the Trifinio region by strengthening management and communication tools, and the ability of key stakeholders to use them, for the Montecristo Trifinio Trinational Biological Corridor. Project activities include working with local, national and trinational stakeholders and platforms to create a series of detailed maps (mapping of all 7 sub-corridors, land use changes, coverage maps by ecosystems to better identify ecosystem goods and services, and water supply and sources) in order to support decision-makers to carry out land use planning, identify priorities for conservation actions, and guide future funding decisions. Project will also design, carry out and evaluate a communication campaign directed towards local communities and governments about the critical importance of the biological corridor and the services it provides.