There are 140 projects that match your search.
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Jamaica
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Biodiversity
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2008
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31,800.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/RAF/08/03 |
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The Negril Royal Palm reserve through the presence of the Negil Great Morass is a biodiversity hotspot with its abundance of endangered and endemic plant and animal species. The reserve is however experiencing a number of challenges related-but not ( ... )
d to-:
1. Lack of a comprehensive interpretation programme for the Royal Palm Reserve
2. Overcrowding or Naturalizing of large acreages by Invasive Alien Species
3. Inadequate promotion of the West Indian Whistling Ducks and other important plant and animal
species
4. Lack of an informed plan to address changing water levels, loss of native plant species, and
changes on
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Jamaica
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2008
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/CORE/07/03 |
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For decades the traditional farming method of clearing hillside forests to open up more land for the planting of crops continues to contribute to the loss of forest and ongoing soil erosion resulting in land slippage, landslides and poor water ( ... )
e. This clearing along with poor agricultural practices simultaneous mining in the area has also resulted in the near loss of Red Peas, Yampie, White Yam, Ginger, Sweet Yams, Cocoes and Blue Mahoe among other important floral species.
By moving from traditional open field farming methods to greenhouse production (protective agriculture), only a fraction of the land is needed to provide the
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Jamaica
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Biodiversity
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2008
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25,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/RAF/08/02 |
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There is presently a low level of awareness among the general populace about the status of the biodiversity in Jamaica. Recent research findings reveal that the environmental educational programs in schools are not yielding the desired effects as ( ... )
ts are not practicing most of their learning in everyday life. The programmes are also limited in their reach as not all schools or students are engaged in these.
The college ground of 31 acres is the largest and only semi-public green space available to residents in the surrounding areas. STC is also strategically positioned to work with and encourage the more than 20 learning centres that
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
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2008
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/CORE/08/02 |
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Recent changes in the international economy, such as the liberalization of the trading regimes for primary agricultural products, in particular banana, by the European Union, have serious implications for small Caribbean countries that, like ( ... )
a, rely on exports of one or a few commodities and are unable to compete in free markets. However, countries could reposition their agricultural sectors to take advantage of export niche markets and/or growing regional and tourism markets. In this regard, the approach recommended in the ECLAC study from 2004 ?Free Trade and the Development of Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean? is the
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2008
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2,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: CBA/JAM/SPA/08/03 |
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(No co-financing required for concept)
The Cockpit country is Jamaica?s last remaining wilderness area with 50,000 acres of forest reserve, and large tracks of crown lands and private land holdings. The area experiences on average 250-380cm of ( ... )
ll annually (Windsor Research Centre), which recharges and supplies the main river systems. The heavy rainfall season of April - May and September - October account for 47% of the total annual rainfall.
Climate change impacts in Jamaica and the Caribbean as a whole will lead to increasing climate variability, and stronger storms and cyclones against a backdrop of overall declines in rainfall
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
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2008
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22,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/CORE/08/03 |
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Land degradation n the Mafoota area has been a problem for a number of years. Poor agricultural practices by farmers including slash and burn agriculture, and shifting cultivation has resulted in deforestation and reduced capacity for carbon ( ... )
tration. Cutlivation on steep slopes, over ploughing and overuse of fertilizers and pesticides has also compounded the problem. Soil erosion due to excessive run off has been experienced, with little soil conservation being practiced. The pesticides and insecticides run off have adverse impacts on the Mafoota River which is a tributary of the Great River. The latter supplies all the domestic
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Jamaica
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Biodiversity
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2008
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/RAF/07/11 |
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? The Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation (C-CAM) was established in 1997 with the objective of promoting integrated conservation of natural resources and improvement of human livelihoods and quality of life in Portland Bight and similar ( ... )
Portland Bight, has been identified as a priority area by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as well as the National Biodiversity Strategy and Protected Areas Policy. It includes the largest area of contiguous mangrove coastline in Jamaica and the highest concentration of fishers, but has long been one of the poorest areas in the island. In addition, the mangroves on which the fisheries and
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2008
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/2/RAF/08/05 |
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The Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park / Forest Reserve has for two decades been acknowledged as an area of high biodiversity in Jamaica and it?s protection and conservation of species (flora and fauna) within it is well documented. The ( ... )
ontains the headwaters of several rivers of north and eastern part of the island and has the largest tract of closed broadleaf forest remaining on the island of Jamaica. These facts along with several others highlight the BJCMNP / FR as socially, ecologically and biologically important to Jamaica.
Encroachment has risen steadily and has crept almost to the very summit of the Blue Mountains,
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Jamaica
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Biodiversity
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2008
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24,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/RAF/07/02 |
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The Trachemys Terrapen/Jamaica Slider turtle is endemic to Jamaica and is considered to be a ?threatened? population. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals (1996)lists T.terapen as VU (vulnerable) and gives the reasons for concern as Category ( ... )
ll distribution and perhaps severely fragmented and Category B2c( continuing to decline due to losses).
The importation and establishment of other Trachemys species , such as T.scripta elegans from the United States is suspected and could represent a threat to the conservation of T.terrapen either through hybridization or competition for habitat. The T. terrapen population distribution and
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Jamaica
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Community Based Adaptation
Community Based Adaptation
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2008
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48,570.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: CBA/JAM/SPA/08/02 |
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The project will involve two communities, namely, Woodford and Cascade. Woodford is a hillside community of about 1,800 persons in northern St. Andrew, just below the Holywell Recreation Area in the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park ( ... )
P). The majority of the community members are farmers growing mainly cash crops ? primarily bananas and Blue Mountain coffee. This community is located in the mid-reaches of the Wag-Water watershed which feeds the Hermitage Dam, an important water supply for Kingston. Cascade is a community of about 800 persons located in the upper Buff Bay Valley, just outside the BJCMNP. As in Woodford, the
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2008
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1,430.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: CBA/JAM/SPA/O8/01 |
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This project is aimed at increasing community-level capacity to adapt to climate change through implementation of sustainable agricultural practices in targeted communities on the slopes of the Blue Mountains. This will reduce the vulnerability of ( ... )
mmunities to increased climate change-driven erosion risks, and decrease livelihood pressures that may lead farmers to clear and or cultivate protected areas further upslope, and contribute to sustainable agro ecosystem management.
Two communities have been selected with major focus on Woodford and Cascade. Woodford is a hillside community of about 1,800 persons in northern St. Andrew, just
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
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2008
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27,800.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/2/CORE/08/07 |
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Since the commencement of bauxite mining operations in 1969, various communities in central Clarendon have benefited from minimal employment for skilled residents and some improvement to infrastructure and utilities. The residents in the area have ( ... )
ubjected to episodes of serious flooding that has damaged or destroyed many houses and posed significant threats to life and property.
Faced with the prospect of increased heavy unseasonal rainfall and to forestall the environment threat of persistent land degradation in the area, the Clarendon Parish Development Committee has decided to embark on a reforestation programme to restore tree
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
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2008
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40,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/CORE/07/07 |
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The Chief Economist of the World Bank, Mr Francois Bourguigon recently stated that agriculture is key to meeting the United Nations anti-poverty goals. He made special reference to the importance of rural agriculture, and called for efforts to ( ... )
agricultural production through high-level activities.
The Santoy Farmers Cooperative have embarked on one such high-level activity and have excelled at the fabrication of High Tunnel Houses (HTHs) and the production of various crops within those tunnel houses through assistance from the SGP and other donors. The quality and yields have been superior to the same crops grown outside of the
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
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2008
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/CORE/08/01 |
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Gravel Hill is a rural farming community, situated in the Vere plains, in the South Western section of the parish of Clarendon about thirty (30) kilometres from the town of May Pen. The area is fairly hot and dry, receiving approximately five ( ... )
d (500) millimetres of rainfall per annum. The slope category is within the range of 0° to 15° and the soil type is mainly Rhymesbury clay, Four Paths loam and Four Paths clay loam. The temperature ranges from 30°C to 35° C.
Gravel Hill is predominantly a farming community of approximately fifteen hundred and twenty (1520) persons (Social Development Commission survey, 2005) who depends
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
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2008
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19,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/CORE/08/05 |
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Agriculture is the only livelihood for farmers in the Sweet Water district of south St. James. Extensive agricultural activities have been going on in this area for over 65 years. as a result land degradation, has been a major problem for many ( ... )
in Sweet Water. Poor agricultural practices by the farmers have led to deforestation, slash and burn agriculture, a shift in cultivation practices, ploughing and planting down steep and application of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides have all compounded the problem. These practices have led to soil erosion, due to excessive surface runoff, as natural vegetation has been removed. The soils in
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2008
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/CORE/07/05 |
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The Dallas Castle Producers (DCP) are currently involved in creating alternative livelihoods in communities of eastern St. Andrew which have high unemployment rates, especially among women and young persons. These conditions have existed for over ( ... )
rs and there have been very limited attempts to address the needs of these groups. One group now involved in assisting is the Good Hope Partners in Entrepreneurial Development which was formed in November 2006 and their activities include one job fair and a numeracy and literacy programme for community members, both of which complement the activities of the DCP.
The lack of opportunities for
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Jamaica
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2008
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/RAF/08/01 |
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The Bogue Forest Estate, which is a part of the watersheds of both the Dunn?s River and Cave River, has been reforested through funds provided by the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica for a Dunn?s River Watershed Management Project implemented by ( ... )
s of the Sea. This project involved the planting of 120, 000 trees over a 230 hectare area, and a community outreach and education component. The community mobilisation and environmental education programmes have increased the awareness of the member communities of the Hills United Development Organisation (HUDO) to the importance of the watershed, its role in coastal zone protection and their
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Jamaica
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Biodiversity
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2008
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27,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/RAF/07/06 |
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The complex geologic and evolutionary history of the Dolphin Head Mountains has generated a landscape rich in biodiversity, endemism, and unique ecosystems. The continued pressure on natural resources as a consequence of development and increased ( ... )
tion represents a conservation challenge for this unique area.
The Global Significance of the Dolphin Head Mountains
If Jamaica is ranked 5th in the world in terms of plant biodiversity, with a 28% rate of endemism, then the mesic limestone forest ecosystem of Dolphin Head ? a clearly defined, 3,000-acre area located within Hanover-- is proudly deserving of both national and global
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
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2008
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17,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/1/CORE/08/04 |
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The Union District of St Ann lies at the head of the White River watershed where the inhabitants derive their livelihoods mainly from subsistence farming and employment on the nearby Orange Hall Estate. Although the district is close to the tourist ( ... )
f Ocho Rios, it is located somewhat remotely in upland area of depleted limestone soils with low fertility, and is accessible by poorly maintained roads.
Since the inception of the Union Basic School, which also functions as a community centre, there has been increased interest in civic matters, as well as greater awareness of the importance of watershed management and improved land
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2008
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40,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/2/CORE/08/09 |
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Land Degradation has been an on-going challenge in farming communities across the island. A number of initiatives are going to address this issue in Walkerswood, including the use of SOLAR power to run pumps to fill black tanks and drip irrigation ( ... )
and which will use rain and treated water harvested from the Walkerswood Caribbean Foods factory. Farmers will be able to have virtually unlimited use of irrigation water, employ fertigation methods to help eliminate the harmful use of chemical based fertilizers which degrade land ?quality? and contaminate water systems.
The WWCDF has been striving to assist the farmers of the Walkerswood
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