There are 27,190 projects available.
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Lesotho
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Land Degradation
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2009
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31,650.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: LSO/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/07 |
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The project seeks to, within the next two years, curb degradation and reclaim 5000m2 of highly eroded areas in the Senqu and Khubelu river catchments within the Molika-liko and Khalahali community councils. Though the project will be based mostly in ( ... )
lages and seeks primarily to adress issues surrounding land degradation, it has far reaching implications in that it impacts on the general environment by reducing the pressure and over exploitation of other natural resources by communities as their livelihoods are compromised thus sustaining local biodiversity, improving quality of water, hence costs and sustainability of water projects
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Vanuatu
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Biodiversity
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2009
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37,090.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: VUT/SGP/OP4/NZAID/Yr2/09/09 |
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MOA yet under processed
The coconut crab resources in TORBA and PENAMA Provinces are major income sources for the remote local communities and households. About 40,000USD generated on annual base for the TORBA province and 700 USD for PENAMA ( ... )
ale of the crabs to local markets at average price of 85USD per kilo. However with lack of managment on the harvesting, the resources become overharvested to their stock declined in recent years. This raised government attention to placed a ban on the harvest in 2004, for 6 years. In most communities where the ban is well enforced there are anedocatal report of some increase in stock. However
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Indonesia
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Biodiversity
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2009
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40,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: INS/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/09/06 |
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Project Development Goals/Objectives:
1. To build and strengthen the basis of cooperation among GEF SGP grantees who has similar concern in environment conservation and protection through micro hydro management.
2. Welding other sources to ( ... )
t community initiatives in facing ecological thread through the utilization of water-catchment and its forest.
3. To increase possibilities and to reach more constituent of funding agencies through lessons learned among communities.
4. To document lesson learned from community and NGO point of view
Expected Outputs:
1. One book of community-based micro hydro knowledge and
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Vanuatu
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Multifocal Area
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2009
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24,355.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: VUT/SGP/OP4/CORE/Yr2/08/04 |
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Crab Bay marine resources were overharvested by local villagers for subsitence needs including women earning family cash from sale of land crabs daily at the local market. Due to deline of target community fisheries resources, the community leaders ( ... )
d a 600 hectares of mangrove, coral reef and sea grass under tradional taboo (no entry and no take zone) so to allow the resources to replenish. The taboo as enforce by a local Taboo committee using local traditional management system. The GEF/UNDP/SPREP Intenational Waters programme assisted the community to document their management plan and train local community undertaking baseline
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Viet nam
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Multifocal Area
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2009
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: VN/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/010 |
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Provinces and cities, especially those located in the Central Coast Vietnam due to unsustainable development processes, will face serious risks of dramatic impacts from climate change. There is a need to integrate environmental protection and ( ... )
nable management of natural resources into 5-year socio-economical development plans through ananylis, integration and selection of concrete and appropriate measures and strategies to ensure effective sustainable development.
Issues that need to be addressed to support local governments in developing 5-year socio-economical development plans:
1. Lack of or unfamiliarity with information,
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Vanuatu
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2009
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41,400.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: VUT/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/05 |
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The Species Birgus latro (giant Coconut crab) is an IUCN listed endangered species that is subject to over exploitation in Vanuatu. Some viable stocks identified in Sanma province are also vulnerable to over harvesting with the increasing demand ( ... )
e local peoples food and cash income through the sale of the resources to the restaurants. This project will determine the current status of the species and provide ecological and biological information to local communities and protected areas managers and buyers, train local monitors in good presentation of reports on any breaches of the laws that ban the harvesting of the resources, assist
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Cuba
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Chemicals
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2009
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35,475.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: CUB/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/05 |
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El proyecto aspira a fomentar una agricultura agro-ecológica libre de sustancias químicas con el fortalecimiento de las capacidades locales de la CPA Rosa Elena Simeón, que permita el fomento de 153 hectáreas destinadas a plantaciones del ( ... )
del Nim, y que satisfaga la demanda de la cooperativa de materias primas (hojas y semillas) que se necesitan para la producción de 400 Toneladas anuales de bioinsecticidas (capacidad de diseño de la planta) al quinto año de la plantación, que serán comercializadas a otros agricultores y que permitirán disminuir el uso de agro tóxicos.
La Cooperativa se encuentra ubicadas en la
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Belize
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Biodiversity
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2009
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: BZE/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/05 |
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The goal of the ?Strengthening of the Beekeeping Industry in Toledo? project is to conserve biodiversity in the Toledo District through the practice of ecologically friendly apiculture (Output 2 ? Annex 2, Logical Framework for the CPS, GEF SGP). ( ... )
t activities fall in line directly with 3 of GEF SGP?s lines of intervention, namely: ?a) Production, marketing, and certification of agricultural and apicultural produce in and adjacent to ecologically sensitive areas. (BD, LD), e) Promotion of community forestry initiatives targeting the sustainable exploitation of timber and non-timber forest products. (BD, LD, CC), and g) Promote viable
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Pakistan
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Biodiversity
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2009
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38,390.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: PAK/SGP/OP4/RAF/09/37 |
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The project has been proposed to accomplish following objectives:
1. To document indigenous knowledge of use of medicinal herbs and uncultivated food plants.
2. To note current state of use or availability of medicinal herbs and uncultivated food ( ... )
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3. To help boost cultivation of precious medicinal herbs and food plants.
4. To establish a seed/seedling bank to conserve and sustain cultivation of identified medicinal and food plants.
5. To provide training to the Gypsy communities in order to help them earn attractive income from there products made by medicinal herbs and food plants.
6. To help boost production of medicinal and food
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Cuba
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Land Degradation
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2009
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6,127.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: CUB/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE /2009/04 |
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La comunidad de Baitiquirí enclavada en el valle del mismo nombre en el municipio San Antonio del Sur, provincia Guantánamo presenta una fuerte deforestación causada por el sobre pastoreo realizado en la zona en años anteriores y por acción ( ... )
ogénica
La franja costera en la cual se ubica la Comunidad de Baitiquirí, constituye la región que presenta los menos niveles de precipitación de todo el país, (? 500 Milímetros/año) y una temperatura media anual alta; pobre hidrografía y suelos esqueléticos (representan el 75,4%), de escasa fertilidad. Estas condiciones climáticas, la erosión, la acción de los vientos y la
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Armenia
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Biodiversity
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2009
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26,379.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: ARM/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/03 |
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In the last 5 (five) years ASPB, BirdLife International and its partner organizations in the Caucasus, have been creating a coordinated network of people living at or near sites identified for one or more globally threatened bird species. These ( ... )
are the Important Bird Areas (IBAs).
The people or groups - BirdLife calls them "IBA Caretakers" ? members of local site-adjacent communities that are able to promote the conservation and monitoring of globally threatened species and sites. "IBA Caretakers" are a powerful advocacy tool which cannot be ignored by decision-makers at all levels. They address threats at site level and use birds to
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Egypt
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Biodiversity
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2009
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12,500.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: EGY/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/360 |
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Invasive species management project in Gabel Elba protectorate that funded by GEF/SGP is a small project aims to contribute for assessment and management of the invasive mesquite trees that invaded the southern areas of Elba protected area since ( ... )
Mesquite tree ?Prosopisjuliflora? is the most serious invader in the southeast corner of Egypt. Introduced to the area by the local community of the Halaib region in the 1980s for agro- forestry and charcoaling purposes, it subsequently spread rapidly, especially after a period of heavy rain in 1996, Prosopis poses a threat to the Elba PA?s biodiversity, and negatively impacts ecosystem
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Indonesia
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Biodiversity
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2009
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: INS/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/09/13 |
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Project Development Goals :
?SUNGAIKU BERSAHABAT KEMBALI? program can contribute benefit, both for community livelihood and ecosystem in Bali.
Project Development Objetives :
1. Improving youth knowledge and understanding regarding Denpasar ( ... )
Basin biodiversity;
2. Increasing youth skills in identifying river basin biodiversity; plant and animal species; and traditional wisdom in utilizing river vegetation;
3. Conserving river biodiversity through river planting and waste cleaning;
4. Conducting documentation regarding river basin ecosystem;
5. Developing network through web blog to invite participation from members working in
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Zambia
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Biodiversity
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2009
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39,500.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: ZAM/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/08 |
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Project?s Description:
The project is aimed at enhancing biodiversity conservation and management through the promotion and enhancement of community based ecologically friendly and sustainable production. This is critical to ensure both community ( ... )
pation and buy-in in conservation as well as assuring sustainability.
Like most parts of Zambia, Mutulang?anga Important Bird Area (IBA) has high poverty levels with 89% of the inhabitants on average living on US $ 0.61 or less than a dollar per day (ZOS, Baseline Report, 2010). Besides high poverty levels, environmental degradation and reduction in the flow of benefits from ecosystem goods
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North Macedonia
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International Waters
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2009
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44,142.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: MKD/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/16 |
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The project is focused on the one of the negative effects from agriculture and main problem in the project is pollution of the lake water from washing of the residues from pesticides, nitrates and phosphates from used packages. According the data in ( ... )
dy for implementation of the system for management with packages from pesticides (financed from UNDP/GEF prespa project), from 1,781,090 kg pesticides used in Macedonia, about 10% are used in Prespa in the same period 30.000 bags from fertilizers are used. After usage of packages in most case they are discarding in the nearness of the rivers and rivulets. With this is allowed washing of the
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2009
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13,240.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/04 |
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Cultivation of medicinal plants holds a great and still not fully explored potential for fighting poverty in the Albanian countryside. Frequently, medicinal plants are hardy plants that can be cultivated on low quality soils and do not require ( ... )
nt irrigation and pesticide spraying.
SGP ? Albania over the years has consolidated a scheme consists in providing the farmers for the seedlings, agronomic support and facilitating the links with buyers of the product. Based on our data (still in development) farmers can pay out the initial investment in 2-3 years and have an economically profitable cultivation of the same plant without the
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
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2009
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6,897.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/09 |
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NO CASH CO-FINANCING IN THIS PROJET
The support to beekeepers of local bees is deemed a valid and important intervention with a multitude of far reaching effects on the ecology and the micro-economy of producer groups at the grass root level. ( ... )
oposal is geared towards the support of an enthusiastic, newly established association of 30 members in Lalikharka, in Tsirang District, dedicated to improve the traditional method of beekeeping. The support to the beekeepers of Lalikharka advice for best practices to improve traditional log/wall hives, the introduction of hygienic honey extration through the supply of a stainless steel honey
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2009
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21,400.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/051 |
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3. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND INTENDED RESULTS
2.1.1 Background and Problem Statement
Opei-Kuma and Loye communities are located within the Kasoa Area of the Awutu District. They do not get much income as a result of the methods used in farming; ( ... )
re mainly peasant farmers, who have one farming season in a year, thereby pushing most of the youth to the cities and urban centers and even migrate to nearby countries during lean seasons in search of greener pastures where there are no jobs.
Although the communities are not far from Kasoa, they are purely rural and farming communities, they have lost most of their trees to domestic use,
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Kenya
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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13,642.86
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: KEN/SGP/OP4/YR2/RAF/09/01 |
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This project takes over from the Coast Vanilla Jatropher Environmental Initiative (CVJEI), which had originally been given a grant of USD 49.914. However, CVJEI was unable to account for the funds it received, and the SGP stopped funding. the ( ... )
ing funds were awarded to CISP to continue and complete the activities of CVJEI.
Teh remaining activities were:
1) Training on jatropha seed planting
2) Harvesting and processing of jatropha seeds
3) Promote the use of jatropha bio-oil for lighting through the provision of lamps and cookers provided by
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Trinidad and tobago
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Multifocal Area
Multifocal Area
Multifocal Area
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2009
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47,772.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/05 |
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This project addresses two (2) of the GEF focal areas - Persistent Organic Pollutants and Land Degradation. Sustainable agriculture will be promoted through training and capacity building in organic and biodynamic farming methods in the Chickland ( ... )
ity in the Central mountain range of Trinidad. The project aims to eliminate the use of harmful pesticides and chemicals in food production through the promotion of sustainable land management principles and practices.
Sustainable land management methods include mixed farming, crop diversity and rotation, integrated pest management, grow box technique, green manuring, budding and grafting,
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