There are 447 projects that match your search.
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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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Phase 4
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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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Phase 4
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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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Phase 3
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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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Multifocal Area
Biodiversity
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2006
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29,504.65
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Phase 3
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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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Phase 3
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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 ( ... )
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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Phase 3
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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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Phase 3
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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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Phase 3
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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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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,986.05
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/25 |
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The project aims to reinforce the production process, the agro-industrialization and the commercialization of the agroextractive goods produced by COOPEVIDA. This will all be locally and regionally done through the sustainable and solidarity ( ... )
pment strategy of the CCAMA (Maranhão Agroextractive Cooperatives Center) network. The network’s objectives are to increase agro-ecological awareness, conserving the Cerrado biome in the state of Maranhão, increase gender and generation parity, income generation and to ameliorate work conditions.
Specific objectives:
• To build a fair trade marketing stand of the agro-extractive
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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148,400.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/SPR/01 |
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Studies and activities to help Cerrado small enterprises, supported by SGP, to reach appropriate certification processes and markets and to overcome marketing bottlenecks. Promotion of Caatinga-Cerrado initiative and Cerrado Marketing Center ( ... )
al do Cerrado), participation of Cerrado enterprises in fairs and marketing events, and participation on debates about fare trade, solidary economy and certification.
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,130.70
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/13 |
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Jalapão is one of the last regions where the Cerrado is well preserved in Brazil, but it is also extremely poor, with one of the lowest Humand Development Índices in the state of Tocantins. Golden grass handicrafts and buriti silk have become an ( ... )
ant source of income for the population in the region, but growing demand for raw materials threatens sustainability of the activity. This project has the goal of acquiring further scientific knowledge about ecological sustainability of wild collection of golden grass and buriti in order to provide inputs for establishment of management techniques which can insure sustainability of the activity.
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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50,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/07 |
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The goal of this project is development of a systemic methodology for evaluation of impacts and outreach of individual projects as well as the Program as a whole, using concepts and guidelines established by the Small grants Programme in Brazil. ( ... )
butions should be made to generation of systematic qualitative and quantitative data regarding results achieved throughout the Program’s existence in Brazil (since 1994), enabling its effectiveness to be evaluated, in addition to main impacts and potential replicability of the initiative in other countries and
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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20,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/28 |
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The municipality of Japonvar is located in the semi-arid region of Brazil, has low Human Development Índices and there are no options available to the population for employment and income. The obvious choice is thus clearing native Cerrado ( ... )
tion for production of charcoal.
This project seeks to provide an alternative for generation of employment and income for small wild collectors in the municipality of Japonvar and its surroundings, by means of expanded production and marketing of products from the biodiversity of the Cerrado, particularly pequi, araticum, cagaita and
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,953.49
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/05 |
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Continuity of the scholar ship program PESCO. The program is focused on supporting researches that involves traditional communities and Cerrado biodiversity. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,651.17
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/18 |
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Descrição do projeto: The municipality of Carolina has poor health care and education services in the village of Solta (60 km from the municipal seat). There is no health care center and schools do not go beyond fourth grade. The region of ( ... )
na is under rapid expansion of large scale agriculture, mainly soy plantations, and part of the municipality is threatened by construction of the Estreito hydroelectric power plant, in beginning stages of construction, which will flood much of the municipality.
This porject is aimed at increasing income for inhabitants of the Solta village and strengthen the Association. Both objectives will be
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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30,178.60
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/32 |
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The objective of this Project is capacity-building and encouragement for families in the rural areas of Pirapora, Minas Gerais, in favor of sustainable wild collection of Cerrado fruits, particularly aimed at increased production of buriti pulp and ( ... )
uts. The entire production is bought by the Dona Quita Homemade Products Company. Two thousand seedlings and their respective planting in degraded areas is
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,080.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/33 |
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Organization of the pequi industrialization to produce preserves, liquor and sweets. |
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Brazil
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Multifocal Area
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2006
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30,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/12 |
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Mobilization and coordination among Cerrado indigenous peoples is sought by this project, aimed at defense of territories and common interests, as well as development of coordinated activities for protection of their territories, access to natural ( ... )
ces and appreciation of their cultures. To this end, the first Meeting of Cerrado Indigenous Leaders is proposed for September, 2006, in Brasília. The objective is to integrate 30 different ethnic groups into the discussion over a political agenda and planning of a wide process for mobilizing Cerrado Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous lands, the largest areas with standing Cerrado, are squeezed by
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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7,027.91
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/29 |
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The project is located in the largest preserved Cerrado area in the country. The fragile economy in the region is based on extensive cattle ranching for subsistence. The sandy soils are highly susceptible to erosion and not suitable for farming. ( ... )
must be cleared in riparian wood areas and humid fields.
Golden grass (Syngonanthus nitens) handicrafts have brought income for families, although accelerated production can be a threat to its sustainability, thus creating the need for identification of new forms for generation of income.
This project will support initiatives for generation of income for communities in the surroundings of
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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50,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/15 |
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This project seeks to solve the main socioenvironmental problem faced by many Cerrado populations: loss of family farming income from natural Cerrado resources, by means of institutional strengthening and expansion of productive infra-structure in ( ... )
ttlement. CEPPEC has already received SGP Brazil support, but due to a lack of infra-structure, acquisition of raw materials has not reached its potential, thus not making due contributions to groups and failing to mobilize them for adequate and planned production enabling scale gains. The objective of the project is broadening the CEPPEC production base to strengthen and replicate Cerrado
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