There are 463 projects that match your search.
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/13 |
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Increasing the lab and building a nursery of native, medicinal, ornamental and fruit species. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/17 |
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Consolidation of Fruta-Sã through the improvement of the quality of the products and organization of the fruits? pre-processing stage at the villages associated to Wyty-Catë. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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27,570.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/05 |
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Production of soaps, shampoos, lotions and natural cosmetics with essential oils extracted from bacuri and gueroba by a group of 11 elderly women. Develop a diagnostic of the sustainable wild collection potential at the region. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/11 |
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This project proposes to promote traditional food resource conservation, aiming at Myky traditional culture maintenance and food safety.
Identification of traditionally cultivated creole seeds, as well as traditionally hunted animal species, ( ... )
bing the traditional management practices of this wildlife resources, and incorporation of the results in the village school
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/10 |
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Consolidation of mobilization and coordination among Cerrado Indigenous people to defend their territories and common interests, maintaining and scaling-up the activities started by the project BRA/06/12. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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28,918.93
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BRA/06/34 |
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Handicraft production using babaçu fruit and other Cerrado species as raw materials, involving youth at Axixá municipality. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/16 |
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This project is aimed at conservation and recovery of Girau river headwaters, in the municipality of Varzelândia, in northern Minas Gerais. The region, which is in a transition between Cerrado and Caatinga, currently lacks in supply of water due to ( ... )
on of rivers resulting from deforestation of riparian woods and presence of extensive eucalyptus crops. 200 small dams will be built by the project for containment of rainwater, in addition to transmission to small farmers of concepts of agroecology as a form of contribution to minimize damages caused by environmental
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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27,653.50
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/01 |
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The region suffers from the pressure caused by soy and eucalyptus plantations, resulting in migration and high indices of poverty. Inadequate use of Cerrado biodiversity has also caused serious environmental damages.
The project aims at ( ... )
ty-building as a strategy to change this situation, working especially with young people, including women and men, qualifying them as Community Agroforestry Agents to disseminate their
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/03 |
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Creation of a network for seed exchanges makes it possible for farmers to rescue, appreciate and ensure reproduction of their seeds, eliminating the need for industrial raw materials, allowing for the transition into agroecology and search for ( ... )
cal, economic and cultural balance in productive
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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1,264.33
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BRA/06/38 |
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White-lipped peccaries will be studied and evaluated in order to determine whether current hunting practices are sustainable. Information regarding abundance of other related species in the Pimentel Barbosa Indigenous Land will be collected for ( ... )
vation of Cerrado and Xavante indigenous culture. Specific objectives are bringing together traditional Xavante knowledge and scientific techniques for peccary management to converge in sustainable hunting for the Xavantes who depend on wildlife for sustenance, as well as spiritual and cultural
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/02 |
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The goal of this porject is to systematize and disseminate a political proposal for popular medicine and use of biodiversity by means of eight regional socio-political conferences in the Pacari Coordination and with social networks and movements. ( ... )
cal influence is the objective, with contributions for public policy formulation, allowing local communities to practice popular medicine by using biodiversity and traditional knowledge associated with
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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29,767.44
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BRA/06/35 |
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The Jequitinhonha Valley region, in Northeastern Minas Gerais, is where the municipality of Araçuaí is located, one of the poorest regions in the country, with lowest human development indices. However, its population is essentially made up of ( ... )
ional local communities, with much knowledge accumulated over the years about sustainable use of biodiversity resources. There is, nonetheless, much need for implementation of projects and public policy aimed at sustainable development, generation of income and improved quality of life for the population.
The objective of the project is improving the quality of primary health care coverage
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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29,162.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/18 |
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São Desidério is a region threatened by large scale agriculture, ranked at the top of the list of grain producers in the Brazilian northeast. Remaining traditional communities are isolated amidst large estates which are generally established by ( ... )
rabbing. The geraizeiro communities have lost areas formerly used for wild collection and struggle to keep their lands.
The project aims to increase the quality of life for the Ponte de Mateus population, by rescuing local culture, capacity building and
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2007
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: BRA/OP4/Y1/07/23 |
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This project has as its goal protection of headwaters in the Santa Cruz and São Domingos Villages, seedling plantation in the springs, backyards and indigenous schools, as well as environmental education in the community.
The Indigenous Land ( ... )
is dry and degraded. Due to the lack of rainfall, fires and deforestation of spring areas, the amount of water available is decreasingly scarce. Recovery of springs is one of the necessary steps to change this
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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30,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BRA/06/27 |
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this project is based on activities focused on production and water resource management systems within a social, economic and environmental context. Activities include a small animal breeding component, assistance for organization of family ( ... )
tion and pedagogical
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2006
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29,504.65
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BRA/06/20 |
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This project has as its main objective implementation of a model agroecological and sustainable agrobiodiversity management production unit in the Gabriela Monteiro settlement in the satellite city of Brazlândia (Federal District). 21 settler ( ... )
families will directly benefit from the project, and 4 thousand families of settler or encamped (awaiting consolidation of settlement projects) families will be influenced. Among its specific objectives, the following stand out: implementation of practical agrobiodiversity management practices, e.g. agroforestry systems and restoration of degraded areas by means of densification with native
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,981.40
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BRA/06/19 |
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This project is run by the small agroextractive producers of Chapada das Mesas region, in the municipality of Carolina, in Maranhão state. They are organized in the Small Farmer Agroextractivist Association of Carolina-? AAPPC. Around 22 families ( ... )
t from the project.
The objective is to encourage development of a sustainable regional model through ecological actions that use local land cultivation practices and wild collection. The products will be sold under the FrutaSã brand in Carolina.
Specific objectives are:
? To make a rapid participative diagnosis about agroextractive potential and use of natural resources by the local
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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22,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BRA/06/02 |
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This project aims to contribute to sustainable development of family farming in the Mid Northern Mato Grosso by means of projects bringing together generation of income and conservation of natural resources in settlements of the Ribeirão Grande ( ... )
in Nova Mutum, Mato Grosso. The project seeks to meet this general objective through wild collection of copaiba. Specific objectives are as follows: learn to collect copaiba oil with minimum impacts on woods; adapt production and processing to market demands, as well as expand the market; generate income for settler families, particularly women; implement a set of initiatives for support of
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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46,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BRA/06/01 |
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Articulation and organization of a socio-technical network to strengthen productive arrangements in the Cerrado of Minas Gerais, focused on ecobusiness, embracing wild collection, agricultural production based on traditional knowledge, and ( ... )
cializing
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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30,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BRA/06/16 |
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Mid Mato Grosso State is one of the areas with worst current brutal expansion of agribusiness over natural ecosystems, resulting in heavy impacts on native environment (which is converted into homogeneous productive landscapes), on local communities ( ... )
were or are still directly or indirectly under pressure to sell their lands) and on family farmers (who are generally concentrated in agrarian reform settlement projects created since the 1970s).
The project proposes development of a model for sustainable agriculture, contributing to generation of income, social inclusion and improved quality of life for family farmers in Mid Northern Mato
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