Participatory Integrated Management Capacity Building on Land Degradation in the Three Gorges Dam Region
Main problems:
The southwest China is the typical area with serious land degradation due to dense population and karst erosion. The trend of land degradation is getting obvious under the interaction of vulnerable ecological and geographic environment and human activity impacts. This problem is outstanding in the area of Three-gorges Dam. With the construction of the dam, large farmland is submerged and large number of population are allocated on the spot, which exacerbate the tension between human and land and accelerate the land degradation in the already overloaded area of three-gorges dam. This not only bring negative impact to industry and agriculture along Yangtze River basin but also directly threaten the locals' life and production.
Project activities/solutions:
1.change traditional afforestation and tending technology, promote coniferous and broad-leaved forest to increase biodiversity
2.restructure agriculture and forestry according to local conditions, improve degraded land.
3.upgrade low- and medium-yield farmland
4.conduct research and promotion training on measures of water and soil conservation and establish monitoring facilities
5.develop stock raising and mixed farming, explore good-quality non-timber production(beekeeing, medicinal plant), develop small scale community low-carbon industry.
6.regenerate ecological culture, conduct publicity, communication and special topic seminar and workshop, raise public awarness on ecological conservation, develop environmental friendly community.
Anticipated results/outcomes:
1.effectively restore degraded land in project site, biodiversity is increased notablely;
2. locals livelihood is improved, their capacity of climate change mitigation and adaptation is enhanced; 3. community's ecological conservation awareness is raised, they actively participate in construction of environmental friendly community, eliminate the use of POPs production;
4. positively drive neighbourhood community to prevent land degradation
The southwest China is the typical area with serious land degradation due to dense population and karst erosion. The trend of land degradation is getting obvious under the interaction of vulnerable ecological and geographic environment and human activity impacts. This problem is outstanding in the area of Three-gorges Dam. With the construction of the dam, large farmland is submerged and large number of population are allocated on the spot, which exacerbate the tension between human and land and accelerate the land degradation in the already overloaded area of three-gorges dam. This not only bring negative impact to industry and agriculture along Yangtze River basin but also directly threaten the locals' life and production.
Project activities/solutions:
1.change traditional afforestation and tending technology, promote coniferous and broad-leaved forest to increase biodiversity
2.restructure agriculture and forestry according to local conditions, improve degraded land.
3.upgrade low- and medium-yield farmland
4.conduct research and promotion training on measures of water and soil conservation and establish monitoring facilities
5.develop stock raising and mixed farming, explore good-quality non-timber production(beekeeing, medicinal plant), develop small scale community low-carbon industry.
6.regenerate ecological culture, conduct publicity, communication and special topic seminar and workshop, raise public awarness on ecological conservation, develop environmental friendly community.
Anticipated results/outcomes:
1.effectively restore degraded land in project site, biodiversity is increased notablely;
2. locals livelihood is improved, their capacity of climate change mitigation and adaptation is enhanced; 3. community's ecological conservation awareness is raised, they actively participate in construction of environmental friendly community, eliminate the use of POPs production;
4. positively drive neighbourhood community to prevent land degradation
Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Chongqing Ecology Association
Country:
China
Area Of Work:
Land Degradation
Grant Amount:
US$ 47,244.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 47,244.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
Project Number:
CPR/SGP/OP5/CORE/LD/11/04
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
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Project Characteristics and Results
Capacity - Building Component
Capacity building is important component if this project including trainings on land degradation, biodiversity and climate change, communnity participatory workshop, site visit and experineces exchange, establishing farmers field school, and technical training on agro-forestry.
Notable Community Participation
Local farmers will participate in all project activities and also the process of project plan, monitoring and evaluation.
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Indicators
Empowerment
Number of women participated / involved in SGP project
701
Biophysical
Hectares of degraded land rest
7
Biophysical
Hectares of land sustainably managed by project
2
Biophysical
Number of innovations or new technologies developed / applied
3
Livehood
Total monetary value (US dollars) of ecosystem goods sustainably produced and providing benefit to project participants and/or community as a whole (in the biodiversity, international waters, and land degradation focal areas as appropriate)
30000
Livehood
Number of households who have benefited* from SGP project
483
SGP Country office contact
Ms. Meijia Lu
Phone:
+861085320743
Email:
Ms. Lixia Zheng
Email:
Address
No. 2 Liangmahe Nanlu
Beijing, Chaoyang, 100600
Beijing, Chaoyang, 100600
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