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Yemen
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Land Degradation
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2009
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22,530.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: YEM/GEF/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/04 |
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Harf village is located in the extreme west Myhah region, western part of Socotra. Myaha is also known as being the driest part of Socotra. Fetching water from distance, far a way from residence requires women hard labour carrying water on their ( ... )
Rainwater harvest is the only solution to provide the community with source of water for use all year round. The community exerts long effort and hardship to solve water shortage for better living while on grazing rotation in this area.
Local community planned to build five water harvest cisterns (Capacities are 95; 80; 234; 144 and 120 Cubic meters)that can hold nearly 673 cubic meters each
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Pakistan
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Land Degradation
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2009
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46,500.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: PAK/SGP/CORE/09/24 |
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Project Objectives:
i. Developing fruit orchards amongst rural households by providing 40,000 fruit plants in 03 selected UCs of the project area.
ii. Introducing forest conservation by promoting social forestry & Conservation of water resource ( ... )
h rain water preservation for household purposes by the women beneficiaries and watering of fruit plants
iii. Construction of 20 rain water conservation tanks
iv Train local people about management of nursery and fruit plantation techniques, layout planning, use of insecticides and fruit plants pruning and rain water conservation techniques.
v.Promoting the Concept of fruit plants nurseries
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Uganda
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Land Degradation
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2009
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38,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: UGA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/08/01 |
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REC Rehabilitating Degraded Lands aims to build the capacity of grass root stakeholders in land use management so as to stimulate local communities in understanding the value of land, increase household incomes through establishment of commercial ( ... )
eping by women and youth groups, and reduce soil erosion rates through use of agro-forestry as an appropriate technology for land resource rehabilitation.
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Argentina
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Land Degradation
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2009
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19,891.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: ARG/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/05 |
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El proyecto tiene como objetivo recuperar la capa arable de los suelos erosionados con la introducción de Chenopodium quinoa Wil.La micro-región de Cusi Cusi está ubicado a 356 Km. de la ciudad capital, San Salvador de Jujuy.Pertenece a la cuenca ( ... )
o Grande de San Juan de Oros, constituida por muchas micro-cuencas de topografía irregular.Los suelos son de origen volcánico y tienen una formación de tipo aluvial y coluvial por lo que son suelos frágiles y susceptibles a la erosión; o bien son suelos que carecen de cobertura vegetal presentando cárcavas y surcos.
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Zimbabwe
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Land Degradation
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2009
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21,663.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: ZIM/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/02 |
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Majinga village is located in ward 4 and has a total population of 701 of which 365 are women and 336 are men. The District is experiencing widespread damage to the environment owing to increased human activities. This includes cutting down of ( ... )
rampant felling of mukwa tree for furniture making, unsustainable farming practices and stream bank cultivation.
The other problems that also need to be addressed include overstocking, use of pesticides, mono cropping and veld fires. A recent study by AGRITEX indicated that soil losses were as high as 35 tonnes per hectare.
1.0 PROJECT OBJECTIVES
) To improve livelihoods of 150
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Cuba
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Land Degradation
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2009
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46,812.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: CUB/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/06 |
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El presente proyecto se desarrollará en la Comunidad de Banao, del Consejo Popular Banao, en las áreas de las Cooperativas de Créditos y Servicios Ramón Pando Ferrer Y Celia Sánchez en el municipio Sancti Spíritus, provincia de Sancti ( ... )
tus. Esta zona presenta varios problemas ambientales entre los que se destacan la degradación de los suelos, la deforestación, la afectación a la diversidad biológica, el agotamiento de las fuentes de abasto de agua, entre otros.
El asentamiento Banao, tiene su ubicación geográfica en la cuenca del río Banao afluente del Tayabacoa al sur y en las inmediaciones de las alturas de Banao,
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Pakistan
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Land Degradation
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2009
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42,731.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: PAK/SGP/CORE/09/25 |
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The areas of lower Indus Delta including Badin is facing serious problem of deforestation. There were large tracts of forests historically which have been completely destroyed due to several reasons including clearing land for agriculture, illegal ( ... )
g etc. Due to the absence of the forest the environmental problems are increasing. The communities whose livelihoods were depending on forest products have been pushed towards poverty. In addition, the absence of forest has caused land degradation in the area. The water logging and salinity are common problems.
The thick forests in the area were also providing shield to the floods as well as
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Sri lanka
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Land Degradation
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2009
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24,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: SRL/SGP/OP4Year2/CORE/08/06 |
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Hold conservation programmes to minimize land degradation, Establish grass cover to arrest soil erosion, Establish an energy conservation strategy for all families, cultivate the forest in the conservation area, Establish organic home gardens, ( ... )
age livelihood development.
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Nepal
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Land Degradation
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2009
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30,994.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: NEP/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/02 |
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The Slash and burn agriculture or Khoriya farming activities generally include slashing the bushes, burning dried branches and leaves and sowing of crop seeds. Such practices are observed mostly in extreme geographic areas in more than 30 degree ( ... )
The practice of shifting cultivation starts generally in winter and ends in October/November each year. The land is then left fallow for several years. Farmers then shift to next patch of land.
The system was good when there was a long rotation, but now the rotation has become too short, therefore shifting cultivation is considered bad and is blamed for inducing severe environmental
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Tunisia
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Land Degradation
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2009
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22,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: TUN/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/09/02 |
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Objectifs global du projet : Réhabilitation de l?écosystème pastorale et renforcement du processus de gestion des parcours à l?UST Ouled Chéhida.
Objectifs spécifiques du projet :
Le projet « Renforcement de l?écosystème pastoral de ( ... )
? Tataouine » vise au :
1) Participation à la restauration des parcours dégradé par plantation d?arbustes fourragers autochtones.
2) Renforcement de système de gestion des parcours du voisinage et innovation en terme de gardiennage.
Description des activités du projet et des résultats attendus:
Les objectifs, les résultats et les activités du projet sont les suivantes :
Objectif
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Panama
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Land Degradation
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2009
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18,370.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: PAN/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/08/05 |
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En la región central del país, específicamente en la región de Ocú se encuentra con grandes problemas de perdidas de suelo que se refleja en la baja producción y el aumento de las enfermedades que muestran una agricultura débil en cuanto a ( ... )
tección de su principal recurso el suelo. Esto a llevado que los productores aumenten los costos de producción por la adición de fertilizantes para evitar bajos rendimientos en los cultivos.
El grupo APAFSA a destinado una parcela de demostración para los productores que participen en jornadas de ejecución de practicas cónsonas a la zona y que estas se repliquen a otras zonas; el
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Mali
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Land Degradation
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2009
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41,610.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: MLI/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/05 |
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Mali
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Land Degradation
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2009
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46,565.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: MLI/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/07 |
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A la 9ème conférence de la Convention sur la diversité biologique, tenue du 15 au 29 mai 2008 en Allemagne, les Etats africains se sont engagés à soutenir la création des Réserves de Biosphère Transfrontalière au niveau régional.
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008, la Secrétaire d?Etat du Ministère allemand pour l?Environnement a, dans une déclaration remise au Sous Directeur Général de l?UNESCO pour les sciences, exprimé la volonté de son pays à soutenir les efforts de promotion des aires protégées transfrontalières en Afrique.
C?est dans ce contexte que l?UEMOA et le Bureau Multi- pays de l?UNESCO pour l?Afrique Occidentale, grâce au
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Chad
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Land Degradation
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2009
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9,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: CHD/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/03/04 |
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'L?agriculture est la principale activité de la localité, source de revenu et de survie de la population de cette zone. La production des dernières années est mauvaise. Le taux de production décroit d?année en année. Les paysans adoptent la ( ... )
e itinérante sur brulis, déplacent souvent leurs champs et pour conséquences, la déforestation. Auxquels s?ajoute la coupe abusive des arbres pour le bois de chauffe ou le surpâturage exposant ainsi le sol à l?érosion éolienne et hydrique. Les terres arables sont de plus en plus dégradées.
Cette pression de plus en plus forte sur les ressources naturelles a créé un déséquilibre
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2009
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21,400.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/050 |
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT AREA
Okushiebiade, Yaoman and Akramaman are purely rural communities in Ga West Municipality. Their main occupation is farming. Women act as heads of families due to the fact that they are single ( ... )
s and they work tirelessly to maintain their families but they continue to be poor with little or no education. The area is undeveloped and hard to reach. Although the communities are not far from Accra, they lack most of the basic amenities such as water, health posts, markets, schools, light and roads.
DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM
The project area has undergone serious land degradation
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2009
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32,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: KAZ/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/09/02 |
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Pasturing gives the main income and provides normal scale of living to local population of Lepsy village. Growth of the livestock quantity, active pasturing together with irrational use of pastures have lead to pasture degradation on area of about ( ... )
housands ha around the village.
One of the ways to restore degraded pastures is grazing optimization and interplanting of local wild growing forage plants. Change in pasture management will allow localizing degradation and restoration on pastures and increase its potential productivity.
Project aim:
Demonstration of possibilities of the pastures degradation decrease through intercropping
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Rwanda
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Land Degradation
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2009
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34,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: RWA/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/09/07 |
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The project aims at restoring the socio, economic and environmental benefits/rewards for the communities of Bigogwe sector in Nyabihu district through profitable and environmentally friendly farming practices.The beneficiaries are victims of ( ... )
slides (that resulted from poor land manangement) that accured in 2007 in the nothern Rwanda.
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2009
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40,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: KAZ/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/04 |
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The project territory (PT) ? is located in Shet district of Karaganda region, in the hills south of the steppe zone on the border of the two subzones: the dry steppes and desert steppes. In the district center - Aksu-Ayuly village live 5540 people, ( ... )
pulation is engaged cattle breeding. On the territory of Aksu-Ayuly rural district grazed 3,5 thousand horses, divided into 4 of the herd, which are on year round grazing. The problem is the unsystematically herds grazing without compliance of grazing norms, which leads to the degradation of pastures
Project aim:
Increase efficiency of pastures use and decrease of land degradation processes
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Botswana
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Land Degradation
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2009
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2,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: BOT/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/10 |
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The purpose of the project is twofold, firstly it intends to introduce rainwater harvesting for adapting against the adverse effects of climate change which has resulted in reduced amount of rainfall for arable farming in this area.. The other ( ... )
nge is to reduce poverty by way of introducing simple low head drip irrigation technology for backyard
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Mongolia
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Land Degradation
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2009
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2,362.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: MON/SGP/OP4/Y2/Core/09/08 |
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This project intends to establish a tiny tree nursery in the left bank of Selbe river near Ulaanbaatar with purposes of supplying neighboring residents with different kinds of tree seedlings, and by doing so to educate and raise awareness of nature ( ... )
vation, tree plantation in plots, greening around summer houses, as well as of rehabilitation of surrounding deforested mountains.
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