There are 463 projects that match your search.
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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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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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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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29,925.58
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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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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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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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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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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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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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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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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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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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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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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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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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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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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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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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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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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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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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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17,586.42
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/32 |
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Sttlers will receive capacity-building training for production of ornamentla native species seedlings (orchids and rhizomes) to support generation of income from a sustainable production activity. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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36,734.57
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/11 |
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This project seeks to work with rural Agrarian Reform settlements in the state of Mato Grosso, where problems such as soy plantations, mineral extraction activities and steel plants affect the ecosystem, destroying the Cerrado biome. Maintenance and ( ... )
hening of the Andalucia Weaving workshop brand is sought, in addition to creation of a native seed bank within the settlement, emphasizing Cumbaru wild collection and, mainly, demonstrate the feasibility of conciliation of development, respect for culture, and
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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47,966.42
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/36 |
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Consolidation of the production of Cerrado native fruit pulp involving eight rural communities and institutional strengthening. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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25,720.16
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/21 |
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Promotion of the participation of Cerrado civil society at COP 8 in Curitiba, Brazil. |
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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50,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/18 |
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Use and management of medicinal plants as a strategy for Cerrado sustainability is sought, due to the threat posed by the expanding agricultural frontier and agribusiness monocultures for export. Production of medicine and medicinal plants, ( ... )
tion of regional criteria for self-regulation of popular medicinal plant pharmacies, construction of a permanent learning center (Cerrado Popular School) with infra-structure, equipment and basic technical references for management and manipulation of medicinal plants, development of a pilot experience for manipulation of cosmetics from Cerrado medicinal plants, in the persepctive of developing a
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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25,948.56
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/35 |
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This project seeks to promote knowledge interchange among traditional populations and migrating ones, about strategies for amplification of the environmental knowledge base in these communities regarding management and conservation of native Cerrado ( ... )
iodiversity. In addition, qualification of marketing of production from wild collection in existence and expanded babassu flesh from the Margarida Alves Women?s Group is
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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22,621.40
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/01 |
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Implementation of the ?Clearing Without Burning? system in three indigenous villages (Rio do Ouro, Tubarão, Latundê). The objective is to develop sustainable agroforestry management. A reduction in the negative environmental impact caused by the ( ... )
fire in conventional indigenous family farming techniques is
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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50,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/24 |
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The Small Eco-Social Grants Program (PPP-ECOS) was the pioneer and remains as the only program with exclusive attention to the Cerrado, a rich and globally significant biome due to its extension, ecological and socio-cultural diversity. However, it ( ... )
hly threatened by the expanding agricultural frontier and still neglected by government and international organizations.
A great number of projects approved and monitored by the PPP-ECOS is aimed at conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, integrating activities such as native fruit and flower wild collection, medicinal plants, wild animal breeding, beekeeping and native beekeeping,
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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9,267.49
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/33 |
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The Jequitinhonha Valley region of Minas Gerais, where the municipality of Turmalina is located, is one of the poorest in the country, with one of the lowest human development indices. Its population is made up mainly of traditional local ( ... )
ities which have accumulated knowledge over the years about sustainable use of natural resources from native biodiversity. There is thus a large need for implementation of projects and public policy aimed at sustainable development and generation of income to improve the local quality of life.
The objective is implementation of activities related to the native Cerrado medicinal plant production
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2005
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47,316.87
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: BRA/05/03 |
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Consolidation of the ecological and cultural base activities developed by the Cerrado Fruit Project in numerous indigenous villages is the purpose of this project. Itinerant workshops will be carried out, with community bees for reforestation and ( ... )
ment of productive areas. Furthermore, the project seeks to bring to the villages the discussions necessary to the achievement of
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