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Displaying 351 - 355 of 359Restoring the degraded watershed and livelihoods of Lakhandei river basin through Sustainable Land Management
Objectives
To achieve LDN in dryland landscapes creating enabling environment to support scaling up and mainstraming SLM and LDN
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Target Groups
The project targets to achieve value of economic, social and environmental benefits generated by the SLM interventions in the intevetnion site. By complying with the LDN TSP, the GoN has set voluntary targets and is committed to achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030. This target is also anticipated to contribute towards achieving the SDG target 15.3. The GoN has made efforts to develop a land degradation-neutral country by piloting interventions in the Lakhandei river basin and then gradually scaling up best practices throughout the remaining hot spots across Nepal as identified by LDN TSP. As such, this project in Lakhandei watershed is an initiative of GEF to curb the ongoing land degradation by streamlining the government line agencies in order to develop it as a model with appropriate SLM approaches to showcase it to stakeholders at the national and international level. The project will play an instrumental role in creating a conducive environment for the stakeholders at the federal, provincial, local and community level to reflect, plan and take appropriate actions for the transformation of the baseline scenario of Lakhandei watershed to a desired state as envisioned by this project. This, in the long run will contribute to generate environmental and socio-economic benefits at the global, national and local level and help them achieve the vision of land degradation neutrality. The SLM practices adopted by this project, identified as the best ones will be instrumental in creating a productive landscape that will deliver ecosystem services with benefits to livelihoods and biodiversity. In order to fulfil the gaps, overcome the barriers and achieve the project objective, the project interventions have been organized into four outcomes, each with several outputs. Apart from national benefits, the global environment benefits that the project will contribute are: improved provision of agro-ecosystem and forest ecosystem goods and services; mitigated/avoided greenhouse gas emissions and increased carbon sequestration in production landscapes; conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in productive landscapes; and reduced pollution and siltation of international waters.
FAO - Food Security, Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation in Dry Corridor JP
General
The program aims to improve food and nutritional security for families and communities in 7 micro-watersheds of Jalapa and Chiquimula in the Dry Corridor of Guatemala, through the improvement of sustainable use of natural resources (forest, soil), integrated water management and increased resilience capacities for climate change adaptation. The implementation includes promoting and improving governance, gender equality and water security with special emphasis in women and children. The indigenous groups in the area are Ch´ortí´ in Chiquimula and Pocomán in Jalapa. FAO will be the lead agency, working in coordination in field with UNICEF, UNDP and WHO. The Dry corridor is a portion of land in Guatemala affected by reduced precipitation, weak soil and low yields located at the rural area. The program. At the end of the intervention the joint program is expected to: 1. Improve communitarian food systems, food and nutritional security, biodiversity, resilience and climate change adaptation through strengthened knowledge in agriculture good practices, nutrition, sustainable use and management of natural resources and the promotion of gender equality. 2. Families, community organizations strengthened as right holders and Municipalities with improved capacities as public servants and duty bearers to jointly identify needs to plan gray and green water infrastructure for water management, health, land use planning, municipal development plans and disaster risk prevention to improve food availability/production, food security, resilience, climate change adaptation and women participation and decision making. 3. Strengthened capacities at ministries and municipal officials, members of the development councils, food security and nutrition commissions and National Coordinator for risk disaster prevention - CONRED coordinators, to perform their legal responsibilities as duty bearers, activate public policy in territories and improve dialogue with right holders to design and present investment proposals for development councils for food security and nutrition, water security, climate change adaptation and resilience.
Objectives
The program aims to improve the food security and nutrition of families and communities in 7 micro-watersheds of Jalapa and Chiquimula in the Dry Corridor of Guatemala. The improvements will be achieved through the promotion of sustainable use of natural resources (water, forest, and soil), integrated water management and increased resilience capacities for climate change adaptation. The implementation includes the promotion and improvement of local governance, gender equality and water security with special emphasis in women and children. The indigenous groups in the area are Ch´ortí´ in Chiquimula and Pocomán in Jalapa. FAO is lead agency, working in coordination in field with UNICEF, UNDP and WHO.
Oasis Landscape Sustainable Management project
Objectives
Support the integrated development of oasis landscapes in targeted governorates in Tunisia in order to contribute to achieving Land Degradation Neutrality while benefiting livelihoods and globally significant biodiversity
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Reducing deforestation from palm oil and cocoa value chains
Objectives
To promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable food systems for enhanced livelihood opportunities in NW Liberia Landscape through land use planning, restoration of degraded lands, and strengthening governance, policies, and market incentives for nationally replicable models of deforestation-free cocoa and palm oil value chains.
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Target Groups
Improved management of forest and lands under agriculture and agroforestry in Liberia will generate a range of socio-economic benefits including contributions to enhanced food security, livelihoods, and water availability and quality. Forest conservation achieved through community commitments under Conservation Agreements will also contribute to maintenance of key environmental provisioning services for a range of NTFPs. With respect to climate security, this project will help reduce GHG emissions and enhance carbon stocks through forest conservation, restoration, and climate-smart agriculture. Protection of forest ecosystems will provide climate mitigation benefits and enhance carbon stocks through natural regeneration. At the national level, a 2013 report estimated that 49% of Liberians faced some level of food insecurity, and 34% had inadequate food consumption patterns characterized by high intake of cereals and low intake of protein-rich foods (World Food Program 2013). Forest protection and landscape management for habitat connectivity will maintain critical reservoirs of bushmeat supply that represents 75% of protein consumption in Liberia; climate-smart agriculture will provide more dependable supplies of food crops; and improved agriculture and sustainable agroforestry will increase household incomes that further contribute to improved food security. To generate direct socio-economic benefits on the ground, the project will implement pilot activities to demonstrate climate-smart agriculture using the Conservation Agreement (CA) methodology with 9 clans throughout the Northwest Liberia Landscape. These agreements will improve the livelihoods of an estimated 6,000 people (half of whom are female). In return for community conservation commitments, the project will offer compensatory benefit packages such as alternative livelihood training, support for agroforestry establishment, and other benefits determined through participatory processes, and thereby catalyze behavioral change and reduce dependence on unsustainable resource use. Details of community commitments and benefits provided under the CAs will be determined in negotiation and design phases, but we anticipate that investments in local livelihoods and socioeconomic development will contribute to household incomes and enhance food security, improve access to education and health services, and provide direct income through conservation jobs (e.g. monitoring, surveillance, planting, etc.). Building on these demonstration projects, the training and capacity building program to be deployed under the proposed project will reach 40,000 beneficiaries (30,000 through training programs, and 10,000 through field demonstration work). Enhanced awareness of climate-smart agricultural practices will position these producers to take advantage of new opportunities for participation in sustainable commodity value chains. Incentive programs to be developed under the proposed project will facilitate such participation, reaching at least 10,000 beneficiaries, including household participation in CAs, improved agroforestry prospects through development of producer associations and partnerships with commercial operators, links to impact investors with an interest in positive social, environmental and economic outcomes, and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) (principally REDD+) for reduced carbon emissions linked to land use change and restoration. Some socio-economic benefits will differ by gender based on different gender roles in food production and income generating practices. In general, by intervening in ecosystem degradation trends through the application of integrated landscape management and land-use planning, the project will preserve the ability to continue activities essential for household food security as well as livelihoods. This will be achieved through training and support for sustainable cultivation practices as well as habitat restoration and maintenance. The project will contribute to rural development and natural resource governance through participatory land- and resource-use planning. By engaging nine clans and other relevant stakeholders in planning processes, the project will ensure that they have a voice in the design of sustainable resource extraction frameworks and benefit-sharing arrangements. Doing so will generate dual benefits of enhanced capacity and ownership at the local level. Through this process, communities will be empowered to negotiate future land and resource uses and help reduce power asymmetries between local people and other stakeholders.
Establishing System for Sustainable Integrated Land-use Planning Across New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea
Objectives
To reduce rates of agricultural driven deforestation and biodiversity loss and to establish a sustainable system of land-use planning to guide future land development activities, sustainable and resilient commodity/crop production and farming systems across Papua New Guinea.
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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.
Target Groups
The project is targeting the delivery of significant socio-economic benefits. Through Component 1 the project will support the establishment of an effective system for integrated land use and development planning that will help to address conflicts over land use, enhance the engagement of women and vulnerable members of communities in land use decision making, provide increased security of tenure and access to resources for rural communities as well as to help safeguard environmental services through the provision of information on their value and their inclusion in land use plans. Under component 2 the project will target significant increases in productivity within the target commodities (100% and 45%, in cocoa and oil palm production respectively) as well as increasing the price per unit paid for cocoa through enhanced access to premium markets. Improved extension support will also help support development of more diversified farming and livelihood practices within commodity producing areas helping to support enhanced livelihood and income security for farmers. A focus on ensuring the engagement of women in training and capacity building activities as well as development of more effective payment systems for cocoa will also help to ensure that female farmers are able to benefit more effectively from commercial farming. Under component 3 the project will help to deliver enhanced land use management practices that will benefit communities through strengthening community conservation initiatives and integrating them into government budgeting systems, as well as working to support the development of self-financing approaches to woodlot development that will help to provide merchantable timber for communities as well as taking pressure of local forest areas. Through these interventions the project will address the key drivers of land degradation and deforestation as well unsustainable expansion of agriculture and will direct benefit over 66,000 people with the majority of these being small holder farming families. The economic benefits gained by these groups will help to strengthen commitments to SLM approaches that will help to preserve key forest areas and areas of environmental importance within the production landscapes. The integration of these groups within global supply chains committed to sustainability will also help to provide more direct market signals as to both the immediate commercial as well as long term sustainability benefits of such SLM practices. Through increases in production and exports of key commodities as well as enhanced partnerships between government and private sector key decision makers.