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The Kenya National federation of Agricultural Producers (KenFAP) is a non-political non-profit making and democratic member-based umbrella organization of all farmers in Kenya. It represents the interests of about 2 million farm families and the agricultur e sector in general. It is the legitimate farmers? voice with the objective of articulating issues affecting them through focused lobby and advocacy targeted capacity building and promotion of sector stakeholders? cohesiveness in dispensing and progressive uptake of agricultural innovations for enhanced socio-economic status of the farmers.The smallholder farmers in Kenya continue to remain trapped in poverty hunger and malnutrition due to lack of sustainable livelihood mechanisms at their disposal. They ar e relatively a marginalized group whose right to quality and nutritious food all the time good health and clothing remains compromised. Poverty is both a social and a human right issue. The production and marketing functions of agricultural commodities are also affected by land degradation due to over usage of the land parcels high cost and overly inaccessible inputs inferior planting materials low prices at farm gate level and lack of market information to the producers. Women and the youth participation i n agriculture is limited as the ownership of most of factors of production is by men. Women and the youth are not involved in decisions making processes. This is a social concern as well as a development concern owing to the fact that most often the two gr oups are the ones left to perpetuate life in future generations. There is need to have the youth and women to be part of planning and implementing development initiatives hence equal access to productive resources by all. Sensitization on human rights is l eft to the human rights organizations which are not sector specific. They are general and not detailed. Kenyan governance has been devolved in view of the Kenya constitution 2010. That brings closer to the rural community the opportunities for having their concerns addressed. However real time to articulate those rights violation levels proper packaging and communication of the concerns considerably lacks among the farming community. As such the agricultural communities need to be informed on their fundamen tal sector specific inherent rights to be able to effectively make the rightful decisions and actions.

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The purpose of this project is to ensure the long-term protection of the Yura region of Peru located within the Purs-Manu Landscape, a 10-million-hectare (25 million acre) mosaic of conservation areas and indigenous lands that contains some of the most remote and least disturbed forests in the entire Amazon basin. It is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, rich in native fauna and flora, and includes one of the highest concentrations of isolated people anywhere on Earth. The Yura is among the most remote and inaccessible parts of the Purs-Manu Landscape, where intact plant and animal communities sustain members of six indigenous tribes in various stages of contact with the outside world and at least two still living in voluntary isolation. While still largely intact, the region is threatened by several deforestation drivers including illegal logging, an expanding agriculture frontier from Brazil and, most concerning, a partially constructed illegal road which threatens to open intact forest with potentially devastating impacts on the ecosystems and the people who depend on them.The project will build indigenous conservation capacity to protect species and habitats and prevent illegal intrusions that threaten to open intact forest with potentially devastating impacts on the ecosystems and the people who depend on them. In doing so, it will protect several rare and threatened species such as the yellow-spotted sideneck turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), the South American river turtle (Podocnemis expansa), the bald uakari primate (Cacajao calvus ucayalii) and the arapaima fish (Arapaima gigas) while providing alternative income sources to unsustainable resource use. Specific activities include: (1) creating a new conservation alliance between three indigenous associations, Perus Park Service (SERNANP, acronym in Spanish), and the Upper Amazon Conservancy (a division of Multiplier) to consolidate and strengthen local opposition to illegal intrusions;

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This project contributes to the realization of Economic Justice change goal that aims to "contribute to reduction in inequality through effective policy implementation and the promotion of practices that favor engagement and economic empowerment of the poor and most vulnerable in rural and urban Philippines." It will ensure stronger safeguards on land tenure security for ARBs and usher responsible investments on land fit squarely with the Oxfam Country Strategy change goal. The plan is to engage the private agribusiness companies to make business standards and practices responsible and this will eventually inform policy makers to push for stronger safeguards that ensure land tenure security of farmers and that will usher responsible investments that will mutually benefit women and men ARBs and agribusiness companies.