There are 447 projects that match your search.
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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23,445.58
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/23 |
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The Upper Jequitinhonha region has grave problems of poverty and low Human Development Indices. Widespread unemployment results in heavy migration to São Paulo for work in sugarcane harvests. Lack of water is an increasingly serious problem also ( ... )
ing in migration.
Activities aimed at protection of the Palmital Stream are the goal of this project, by means of construction of micro-dams, community reservoirs, assessment of ecological soil management alternatives and re-vegetation of its margins. To complement these activities, environmental education activities will be held involving community and local public school, fostering
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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/06/17 |
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The Bico do Papagaio region has traditional production of babassu (Orbignya phalerata, Arecaceae) palmnut oil and mesocarp by the so-called palmnut breakers. The palmnut collectors, who sell it whole to industries have become a threat to the ( ... )
hood of these women. Lands on lease for collection had freedom of access for palmnut breakers, who, in addition to collecting the palmnuts, process them to make oil, mesoacrp and charcoal.
Many landowners and rural workers, including husbands of palmnut breakers, have cut down babassu trees due to the low selling price, creating much conflict between men and women. Cutting these trees down is a
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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/06/04 |
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Consolidation of results achieved by the project “Participative Methodologies for Indigenous Projects” is sought by means of support and monitoring for five nano grant projects by indigenous groups and traditional communities. Monitoring of ( ... )
, execution and reporting by these projects is intended, in order to formulate instruments and alternative methods with grantee communities, making contributions to expansion of access by indigenous groups and traditional communities to SGP Brazil financial resources, in a direct and autonomous manner, eliminating the dependence on external technical assistance. The demand for special procedures
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Brazil
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Multifocal Area
Biodiversity
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2006
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30.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/06 |
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This project is aimed at preparation of the Cerrado Network of NGOs for participation in the Ninth Conference of the Parts (COP9) of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which will be held in Germany in 2008. Warnings are planned for countries ( ... )
spective companies acquiring products which have negative impacts on the Cerrado biome during their production (mainly soy, beef and steel). Among specific objectives, the following stand out: planning and participation of the Cerrado Network team in COP9; monitoring definition of public policy at the international level with impacts on the Cerrado; disseminate in the national and international
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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/06/24 |
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Promotion of the debate at Satnta Terezinha municipality center and rural communities about lakes management. Through environmental education activities and seminars the project expect to develop the community awareness about the lakes conservation ( ... )
nerate fishing
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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26,618.14
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/09 |
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The goal of this project is fostering rational and sustainable use of the pequi in the Paresi Indigenous Territory and propose marketing of this fruit as an alternative source of employment and income in indigenous communities, aimed at preservation ( ... )
servation of these areas.
Villages which will benefit are inserted in a context of soy monocultures and cattle ranching. According to the project, Mato Grosso state produces 60% of all Brazilian soy and the municipalities of Tangará da Serra and Campo Novo do Parecis account for 25% of this production. A scenario of very high negative environmental impacts is clearly visible, expressed by
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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25,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/08 |
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Elaboration of studies about SGP Brazil; identification of new potential partners and sponsors and recommendation of strategies to complement the financing before and after the programme´s graduation in 2010; and contribution for the production of ( ... )
about the programme.
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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21,330.23
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/31 |
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Expanding large scale agriculture (soy, cotton and sugarcane) presents immediate threats to the area of São Félix do Araguaia, in Mato Grosso. Sustainability of the settlement is compromised by this type of agricultural production which is ( ... )
read in the region. The population in the Dom Pedro settlement practices family farming.
Soil, farming and cattle raising management techniques will be developed and applied without the use of fire. Techniques will be designed in accordance with the local settlement reality, albeit based on similar experiences by other
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,162.79
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/21 |
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The main objective of the project is to support the development of technologies that are appropriate for small scale agriculture in order to help keep rural families in their land, respecting the cultural and environmental diversity.
Forty nine ( ... )
es that live in the Santo Dias Settlement in the rural zone of Guapé municipality, Minas Gerais state, benefit from the project. The area was taken over in XXX by the families of Guapé belonging to the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (Movimento dos Sem Terra - MST). On March 15, 2007 the settlement contract was finally signed.
Guapé municipality is located on the margins of the Furnas
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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16,511.63
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/22 |
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The goal of this Project is development of a management plan for wild collection of Cerrado medicinal plants in the municipality of Goiás, state of Goiás, in private property areas. A community group organized by the Itaberaí (neighboring ( ... )
pality) Health Care Pastoral will be responsible for this. Several community pharmacies have been experimentally implemented in the region, producing medication from medicinal plants for primary health care coverage for the population. On average, approximately 32 thousand people each year benefit from the community pharmacies in the region. In this context, there is much demand for the use of
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,906.98
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/10 |
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The goal of this project is increasing Amazon Turtle (Podocnemis expansa) population and potential marketing in the Xambioá Indigenous Territory, located on the right margin of Lower Araguaia River, in the municipality of Santa Fé do Araguaia, in ( ... )
ate of Tocantins.
Due to an increase in population at the Indigenous Land, natural resources have been under heavy pressure, since after demarcation of the territory, land and its available natural resources became limited. As a result, a cultural change is necessary in order to create a new concept and methodology for natural resource use, since the limited size of the land does not allow
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,925.58
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/14 |
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This porject is made up of a series of activities aimed at reintroduction of white-lipped peccary into the Apinayé Indigenous Land, with the goal of building a mutual relationship between peccaries and the indigenous community by means of ( ... )
ty-building on topics of sustainable management of the species, making it rational rather than predatory, which made the species extinct in the region in the past. The project will be developed in two stages, at the same time community corn crops will be grown for feeding the animals.
In the first phase two groups of peccaries will be acquired (18 females and 2 males), one for the Mariazinha
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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/06/26 |
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In a region threatened by large-scale export agribusiness, the municipality of Sendor La Roque has little availability of employment, health care and education services, due to the model of agriculture which excludes small family farmers.
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ive of the project is consolidating and continuing previous Agroforestry and production diversification initiatives in the community of the Taboleirão I Settlement Project by means of production of native Cerrado fruit sweets. In order to meet this goal, several capacity-building activities will be performed in the community and a small Cerrado fruit food factory will be built. Continuity will
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,527.91
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/30 |
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The region in question is a transition between Cerrado and Amazon biomes which is under heavy threats from widespread cattle raising and soy and rice monocultures. Food production in the area does not meet the demand, creating the need to bring in ( ... )
ts form other regions of the country. There are no paved roads and most electric power comes from diesel oil generators.
Recovery of creole seeds is sought by this project, as well as implementation of Agroforestry and Agrosilvopastoral systems, environmental education for peasant and indigenous families in the Krenak/Maxacali
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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5,808.36
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/11 |
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Four small dams will be built by this project for containment of rainwater runoff. Dams will be built in the Macuco, Mata Dois and Bandeira Grande communities, all located in the municipality of Minas Novas, Minas Gerais. This municipality is ( ... )
d in the Jequitinhonha Valley, one of the most vulnerable and environmentally degraded in the country, with widespread poverty. Fourteen families will benefit directly and 150 families indirectly, all residing in the aforementioned communities. Containment of water, a scarce and valuable resource in the region, should enable development of family farming for fruit crops and promotion of a more
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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3,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/05/31 |
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Training and capacity-building are proposed in this project in activities demonstrating the applicability of sustainable management in the transition areas between Cerrado and the Amazon Rainforest in Northern Mato Grosso. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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25,349.79
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/05/20 |
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Consolidation and expansion of baru nut processing unit through acquisition of equipment for diversification of the production, purchase of products and activities for insertion of the products into the market. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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3,127.57
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/05/08 |
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Implementation of an alternative source of income in Sant’Ana da Caatinga is sought, a community living basically off of the scant flow of tourists and homemade products in the weekend fisher ranches. This alternative source of income consists in ( ... )
baru, a native fruit, sweets and other foods promoting conservation of local native vegetation through its sustainable
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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26,160.49
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/05/28 |
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This project will be implemented in tourism site near to Brasília, in which mineral exploitation and cattle ranching have degraded much of the landscape. Natural Heritage Private Reserves (Reservas Particulares do Patrimônio Natural) are an ( ... )
ative for conservation of biodiversity and generation of income through ecotourism.
Two routes will be established by this project for tourism, cutting across regional RPPNs by a network of RPPN owners, community and environmental agents and associations. Capacity-building and labor training will transform the Flor ds Águas RPPN into a Training Center for coordination and reference for studies
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Brazil
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Land Degradation
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2005
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3,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/05/02 |
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The proposal is to rescue the use of urucum (Bixa orellana) in the traditional rituals aiming at recovery of the population’s self-esteem and sustainability of the community. Incentives will be offered for planting and management of this species, ( ... )
ring degraded
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