General

Establishing systems for sustainable integrated land-use planning across New-Britain Island in Papua New Guinea

Objectives

To support the transformation of rice-dominated landscapes in the Mekong Delta towards sustainable, adaptive and resilient models of production and landscape management that deliver multiple environmental and social benefits

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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.

Target Groups

1. The project concept is predicated on the integration of environmental and social sustainability into the management of production systems and landscapes in the Mekong Delta, in accordance with the provisions of Government Resolution 120/NQ-CP on Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Development in the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam, which sets out the vision of the region by 2100 becoming:“A sustainable, safe and prosperous Mekong Delta, based on suitable development of high-quality agriculture products, combined with services, ecotourism and industries, focusing on manufacturing industry, enhancing the competitiveness of agriculture products; Infrastructure network is coordinately planned, developed, modern in an active, smart way and adapting to climate change; ensuring safety under disaster; reasonable use of natural resources; biodiversity and cultural tradition is conserved and enhanced; human lives and spirit are improved”.2. Specifically, the project will support the Government of Vietnam in achieving its goal of diversification of production systems in the Mekong Delta in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner.3. Annex X presents evidence that the option of transition from the current situation (which is recognised by the Government as being unsustainable) to a flood-tolerant water management approach offers superior economic returns to the Business as Usual scenario, once social and environmental externalities are taken into account.4. Under the project model, the delivery of improved global environmental benefits (in terms of biodiversity, climate change mitigation and sustainable land management) will be inextricably accompanied by social benefits including the following:- Improved resilience to the effects of climate change, given that the current environmentally unsustainable options will also otherwise also become unsustainable in productive and social terms due to the effects of climate change in terms of land subsidence, sea level rise, and modified rainfall regimes. The project will be co-financed by initiatives focused specifically on climate change adaptation given that the management systems that are foreseen have the potential to deliver both GEB and adaptation benefits;- Improved resilience to the volatility in economic and food systems at regional and global levels: the kinds of diversified production systems that are required to optimize GEBs also typically contribute to the resilience of farm families’ food security and livelihoods;- Improved nutritional quality: diversification away from rice will permit farmers to broaden and improve their nutrition through increase access to alternative, more nutritional crops such as vegetables (many of those grown in flood-based systems, such as morning glory, are highly nutritive) and in-field fauna such as duck, fish and crustaceans.- Improved compliance by farmers with environmental sustainability criteria, such as those set out in the SRP Standard, have the potential to allow them improved access to favourable markets for their rice and other products.Decent Rural Employment1. The project will contribute to FAO Organizational Outcome 2 (Under FAO Strategic Objective 3 "Reduce rural poverty") that “The rural poor have greater opportunities to access decent farm and non-farm employment." by:- Supporting the Government in achieving a transition from high-input to diversified low-input production systems in the Mekong Delta: in addition to delivering improved GEBs, this will contribute to reducing farmers’ exposure to harmful agricultural chemicals in the workplace;- Where feasible and appropriate (subject to the results of participatory processes of situation analysis and technology formulation/validation in Farmer Field Schools), supporting the introduction of alternatives for sustainable mechanization in accordance with principles of appropriate technology, in order to reduce drudgery in agricultural work;- Supporting the diversification of farming and livelihood systems: in addition to delivering improved GEBs, this will increase the diversity and the resilience of the employment opportunities open to farmers (women and men);- Assisting farmers in achieving compliance with the SRP Standard, which combines the delivery of environmental benefits and increase opportunities for income with compliance with standards on decent working conditions;- Overall, the contribution by the project to the sustainability and resilience of production systems in the Mekong Delta will contribute to sustaining the rural economy (including opportunities for decent rural employment) in the face of the current trends of rural-urban migration,

General

Small coffee growers in Ethiopia, producing 95% of Ethiopian coffee, are very vulnerable lacking access to financial, technical and/or social services and facing inefficient and non-transparent trading channels. Dutch company Moyee Coffee sources high quality coffee in Ethiopia and they aim to have a 100% sustainable and balanced coffee supply chain. Together with the Ethiopian FairChain team and by using blockchain technology, Moyee is maximising local value addition. It aims to secure living incomes for the producers. The company is currently scaling up sourcing activities in Ethiopia by supporting smallholder farmers in the field of high-yielding and sustainable coffee practices to ensure high quality coffee production.To prepare for a larger investment in Ethiopia, Technical Assistance (DGGF-TA) offers support to this project. Activities include the training of local smallholder farmers to improve production capacity and to prepare for Rainforest Alliance and UTZ certification, the set-up of a wet mill – of which farmers can become co-owners – and the testing of blockchain technology use cases, which include the development of traceability and transaction functions, including ‘wallets’ for each participant (farmers, graders, NGOs, buyers, processors, etc), to create transparency of value distribution in the entire chain. A yield and income history of farmers is created, providing them with more access to finance.The project is ongoing and currently supports 11 direct jobs, 120 direct seasonal jobs, 410 indirect jobs and has provided sustainable knowledge transfer by training 350 people regarding Climate Smart Agriculture, Practices which leads to increased incomes of farmers involved. Furthermore, the project contributes to behaviour change in the farming population, by segmenting farmers and identifying the profitability potential of each farm. As a result, farmers with clear profitability potential are believed to adopt more practices and increase yields, while making investments (time and money) in their farms, which they previously did not have the courage to. Other farmers may choose to diversify, in which case FairChain’s Platform will help connect them with markets for other products than coffee.Upon successful completion, further investments are being prepared and may lead to increased adoption of practices by small farmers, more digitalization of farms and farmers to improve business skills, record keeping and access to finance. An ingrower model is being explored, to achieve land reform for farmers too small to get out of poverty. 45 ingrowers will be trained on a FairChain model farm, where they will get paid living wages, professionalize, be enabled to save money, and buy plots to become medium or large farmers. Proof of impact would be sent as feedback via the Platform, achieving consumer loyalty through blockchain evidence, rather than through traditional social media or other online and offline marketing channels and tools.

General

Uganda Poverty Status Report (2016) states that although Uganda’s international extreme poverty rate fell by 2.7% points per year, the second fastest reduction in extreme poverty per year in Sub-Saharan Africa in the last 10 years; in 2013, more than a third of its citizens still lived below the international extreme poverty line of US$1.90 a day. Agriculture is the most important sector of the Ugandan economy employing over 80% of the labour force and contributing 23.1% to the GDP. Agricultural production in Uganda is mainly dominated by smallholder farmers engaged in food crops, forestry, horticulture, fishing, and livestock farming. However, agricultural productivity is affected : extreme weather variability, high costs of inputs, poor production and soil management techniques, limited extension services, over-dependency on rain-fed agriculture, limited markets, land tenure challenges and limited adoption of technology and innovation. Teso sub region is in the recovery stage after decades of conflict that devastated the livelihoods of between 60%-70% of the population as a result of displacement. The target sub counties for this project are characterized by high poverty levels that are manifested by the high-risk agricultural practices, insufficiency of income to meet basic human needs, low purchasing power, low savings and consequently low investment leading to low standards of living.

Objectives

Overall Objective: Enhanced Resilient Livelihoods of 500 most at risk households in Teso Sub-region of North Eastern Uganda Specific objectives: 1. To increase climate-smart food crop production among 500 households in 3 target districts 2. To reduce post harvest losses among 500 households in 3 target districts 3. To increase access to affordable finance among 500 households in 3 target districts

Target Groups

Direct beneficiaries: 500 most at risk households Indirect beneficiaries: 2500

General

Better land governance in Colombia is the ultimate aim of this project, in which three pilots with a Fit for Purpose approach will be carried out.The Colombian counterparts of Kadaster will be the Instituto Geografico Agustin Codazzi (IGAC), the Agencia Nacional de Tierras (ANT) and the Superintendencia de Notariado y Registro (SNR). For the whole project, a broader institutional setting is required, beyond land administration and land governance alone.Beneficiaries are disadvantaged people ina) a predominantly indigenous community,b) predominantly Afro-Colombian community,c) mixed communities (Afro-Colombian, indigenous people but also peasant farmers).Kadaster works together with ICCO and Tropenbos who look at economic development and natural resources to integrate in the Fit for Purpose approach. Results are the results of the two proejcts combined.