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Displaying 1041 - 1045 of 2117Integrated management of degraded landscapes for sustainable food systems and livelihoods in Guinea Forest Reg
Objectives
To promote sustainable and comprehensive food systems that are deforestation free and provide ecosystem services, with a focus on palm oil productive landscapes
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Generating socio-economic benefits is not only a very desirable output of this project but key to its sustainability. If people don’t derive tangible socio-economic benefits from more sustainable food systems and restored landscape there is little hope that these systems will be chosen on the long run. This project’s objective is to create a common vision as a guiding principle for the landscape, ensuring that all stakeholders (even the most disadvantaged usually such as women and youth) feel empowered and benefit from sustainable landscapes. The development of green and inclusive SMEs as well as the support to larger enterprises to have a positive impact on the landscape and local livelihoods, are a key pillar of the project. Looking component by component the benefits are the following: Under Component 1, at the national level, the socio-economic benefit from the project is an enabling environment that includes institutions and coordination mechanisms with a stronger capacity to plan and implement. It is expected that these enhanced capacities will lead to improved and projects in an integrated manner. The project will also support supportive policies to reach the field level. Policies on land tenure are particularly important for communities and farmers to project themselves in a long-term vision for the landscape. Thanks to awareness raising at national and local levels, over 300 people will be trained in Integrated Landscape Management planning and lead the process in their communes to apply this knowledge and develop participatory integrated land use plans. These plans will be developed following multiple criteria including socio-economic ones. Raising awareness and enabling people to be part of a landscape plan, is empowering them to be a driver of change to transform current unsustainable food systems, overusing natural resources instead of nurturing them, to ensure they will be able to deliver their benefits on the long term. As part of the Integrated Land Use Plans some areas will be designated as needing to implement sustainable agriculture intensification to promote sustainable food producing practices and responsible value chain. In order for this change from traditional agriculture to sustainable intensification to be accepted and be part of a long term plan, local communities need to derive benefits from them. Under Component 2, up to 10,000 farmers will be trained through FFS and lead farmers on sustainable agricultural intensification practices. The exact packages to be used in each community will be defined depending on local condition and culture but the options proposed in the project are all defined in a way that will benefit the economic status of the farmers. This will be through diversifying the production, introducing rotation culture (allowing to produce several crops on the same land without exhausting its resources), or ensuring that the crop can adapt to changing weather patterns preventing the farmers from the devastating effect of a lost harvest. The linkages of this project with the AGRIFARM project that is supporting the development of cooperatives, roads and market opportunities will allow the farmers to sell their produces efficiently. The project also has a strong angle to support sustainable palm oil development in view of its growth in Guinea. The production and the transformation will be supported to include more sustainable practices. 15 groups, including mostly women who are usually in charge of this task, will be empowered to improve the transformation lowering the arduousness of the work and increase the yield. In parallel, the project will promote inclusive businesses. Together with the implementation of palm oil certification this will create an emulation for sustainable products and value with a direct socio-economic impact to the local communities. Women and youth will be recognized for their work and directly benefit from it, giving new energy. Under component 3, restoration activities in the Integrated Land Use plans will be implemented to restore threatened ecosystem services and a healthy environment. Value chains depending on these restored land will be supported to create a direct economic benefit linked to restoration. As part of the project, 4 NWFPs value chains will be supported in order to bring more economic benefits and have the restored lands considered as productive. The project will also look for new financing options to sustainable the restored land that will have direct socio-economic benefits. Both national and local project stakeholders will also benefit from more robust monitoring and knowledge management systems, under Component 4, that generate information in a participative way, share it in the form adapted to the target audience and disseminate data, information and best practices relevant to restoration. This will reduce time spent on research and development and facilitate learning and sharing of innovative ideas among and between local, national and international experts (through the IP FOLUR for example) and practitioners, possibly influencing program and policy formulation at different levels. The project’s strong focus on gender and youth equity is also expected to strengthen social sustainability. With equal rights and opportunities to participate and benefit from the project, women, men and the youth can become agents of change for sustained socio-economic development in their communities.All these efforts support ILM and FLR development at the local, regional and national levels giving both the tools to implement it and the incentives to keep doing it over the long term. Global Environment Benefits are reached through land degradation reduction, sustainable agriculture and forest management, improved biodiversity habitat connectivity and improved wellbeing.
Transition Plan to 2041 for Rural Sanitation and sludge to energy in Egypt with the support of the Aquavest mo
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Over the past 2 decades, the Egyptian government has faced tremendous challenges to provide safe sanitation practices in rural areas. The majority of investments primarily focused on providing large centralized sanitation-related services and infrastructure in the major urban cities. The capital costs, as well as operation and maintenance (O&M) costs of wastewater treatment facilities, are high. It became clear that it’s not possible to recover the full costs of treatment from the end-users, making wastewater treatment facilities financially unsustainable. In addition, about 65% of the population in rural areas has only access to (improved) septic tanks, consisting of lined single or dual compartments, or simple soak away vaults or latrines. The biggest challenge is usually in remote villages, away from the main wastewater network, with contamination via the onsite discharge of domestic wastewater to groundwater, water bodies, or irrigated fields, resulting in increased public health risks.The Holding Company for Water and Wastewater seeks support to develop an investment/business plan for sewage & sludge handling in Egyptian rural areas. Such would have enormous benefits for the Egyptian economy and health noting that with implementing proper sanitation practices in rural areas, the pollution load of waterways will be significantly reduced as well as the land productivity will be increased.The mission will be a Proof of Concept of the unique AquaVest tool. The goal is to get a better understanding of the functionality and added benefits of the tool for developing the desired investment/business plan for sewage & sludge handling in Egyptian rural areas.
ReGenerate Rwanda
General
Western and Southern Rwanda are the poorest parts of the country – 58% of all households in the Southern Province and 49% in the Western Province fall into the poorest and poor categories (compared to 40% overall for Rwanda) 1 . While poverty rates across the country have declined in recent years, in these provinces they have increased, with extreme poverty rising in the Southern province, while the number of poor households in the West has grown. Food insecurity similarly affects these two provinces to a greater degree than the rest of Rwanda – 29.9% of households in the Western Province, and 20.5% in the Southern Province are food-insecure, compared to a national average of 18.7%2 . The districts of Karongi, Nyamasheke, and Nyamagabe are among the ten poorest in Rwanda. A combination of factors keeps people living in poverty, including the acute land shortage and an underdeveloped non-farm economy3 , all leading to a reliance on casual agricultural labor and widespread unand underemployment, with farming being the main livelihood in Western and Southern Provinces
Objectives
The goal of ReGenerate Rwanda is to sustainably increase incomes for 30,000 women, youth, and men living in poverty in Western and Southern Rwanda. Using a market systems development approach, this five-year program aims to identify, catalyze, and scale up systemic solutions to reduce poverty, advance gender equality, regenerate the environment, and increase resilience. ReGenerate Rwanda will take a gender-transformative and regenerative business approach, prioritizing young and adult women as the primary target group (representing 20,000 of the 30,000 poor people this program will benefit) and promoting nature-positive economic opportunities that will benefit our target population and the environment and natural landscapes that sustain them. By the end of the program, ReGenerate Rwanda aims to have catalyzed systemic changes in the target market systems that lead to increased and diversified nature-positive incomes, increased household assets, increased off-farm employment, and improved gender norms and attitudes
Target Groups
The target group of 30,000 will be comprised of poor women (at least 20,000), youth, and men in the poorer Ubudehe C and D48 household categories (i.e., with an aggregated monthly household income of up to RWF 65,000 (approx. USD 63) and land ownership of up to 1ha).
Royal University of Agriculture
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Center for Agricultural and Environmental Studies (CAES) was established in 2011. It is one of the center under the management of RUA. The CAES plays a vital role in capacity building, research related to environment, climate change, agriculture, forestry, and particularly the sustainable land management in Cambodia. With expertise in the fields of research and training in agriculture, natural resource management, land use change, and innovative technologies aimed at improving agricultural production, technology transfer, sustainable land management and raising awareness. Through this project the Royal University of Agriculture (RUA)- Center for Agricultural and Environmental Studies - Will support training to partners and community leaders on climate smart agriculture technology; coordinate to implement climate smart agriculture models with selected households; monitor and follow-up to document learning. - Currently implementing a project with IFAD - “Scaling Up Climate Resilient Agriculture” inKampong Chhnang and Pursat provinces. - Can provide technical expertise in sustainable land management and rural development, vulnerability assessment, climate smart agriculture, ingerated farming systems, modelling, GIS, Data Web platform and E hub; training; and sharing of resources and materials.