There are 4,125 projects that match your search.
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Lesotho
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Land Degradation
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2009
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31,650.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: LSO/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/07 |
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The project seeks to, within the next two years, curb degradation and reclaim 5000m2 of highly eroded areas in the Senqu and Khubelu river catchments within the Molika-liko and Khalahali community councils. Though the project will be based mostly in ( ... )
lages and seeks primarily to adress issues surrounding land degradation, it has far reaching implications in that it impacts on the general environment by reducing the pressure and over exploitation of other natural resources by communities as their livelihoods are compromised thus sustaining local biodiversity, improving quality of water, hence costs and sustainability of water projects
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Cuba
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Land Degradation
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2009
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6,127.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: CUB/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE /2009/04 |
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La comunidad de Baitiquirí enclavada en el valle del mismo nombre en el municipio San Antonio del Sur, provincia Guantánamo presenta una fuerte deforestación causada por el sobre pastoreo realizado en la zona en años anteriores y por acción ( ... )
ogénica
La franja costera en la cual se ubica la Comunidad de Baitiquirí, constituye la región que presenta los menos niveles de precipitación de todo el país, (? 500 Milímetros/año) y una temperatura media anual alta; pobre hidrografía y suelos esqueléticos (representan el 75,4%), de escasa fertilidad. Estas condiciones climáticas, la erosión, la acción de los vientos y la
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Ghana
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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/2009/051 |
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3. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND INTENDED RESULTS
2.1.1 Background and Problem Statement
Opei-Kuma and Loye communities are located within the Kasoa Area of the Awutu District. They do not get much income as a result of the methods used in farming; ( ... )
re mainly peasant farmers, who have one farming season in a year, thereby pushing most of the youth to the cities and urban centers and even migrate to nearby countries during lean seasons in search of greener pastures where there are no jobs.
Although the communities are not far from Kasoa, they are purely rural and farming communities, they have lost most of their trees to domestic use,
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Jordan
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2009
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: JOR/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/11 |
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The project aims to help reduce land degradation through increasing sustainable water conservation practices, and environmental awareness that will help nurture environmental aspects within the local community, and thereof help combat water scarcity ( ... )
Rass.
Project Specific Objectives:
- Reducing land degradation, along with improving the livelihood and living conditions of the local community, by using a revolving fund that is given to help initiate water conservation projects.
- Enhance the awareness of the local community about water harvesting practices.
- Enhance the status of the local community through upgrading their
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Jordan
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Land Degradation
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2009
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28,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: JOR/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/09 |
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The project contributes to increasing sustainable land management practices in the area by supporting small projects to the local community that will later decrease soil erosion, and introduce income generating activities in the area.
With ( ... )
ating annual rainfall, rainwater harvesting practices will be introduced to the local community that will later help in preserving the agricultural biodiversity in the area.
Project Specific Objectives:
- Conserving the biodiversity in the area, along with improving the livelihood and living conditions of the local community, by using a revolving fund that is given to help initiate
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Bhutan
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Land Degradation
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2009
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30,788.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/09/01 |
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NO CASH CO-FINANCING IN THIS PROJECT
There are a total of 60 households in Pakhagaon and Kothi situated in the slopes of a narrow valley besides the rives and experiences heavy rainfall each summer, causing continuous soil erosion along the ( ... )
and because of the progressive increase in population, regression of forest and bushes and heavy rainfall most of the lands have become degraded significantly. Simultaneously, following the diminished water holding capacity of the soil, flash floods have become a common feature washing away and silting large parts of cultivable land.
Hence, farmers having heard of the success stories of
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Gambia
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Land Degradation
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2009
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: GMB/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/10 |
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The aim of the project is to combat land degradation in order to improve the incomes of the people, attain food securityby improving agricultural outputs through the adoption of better farming systems in the project area. The project will be an ( ... )
ated one having an environmental component involving agroforestry,capacity building on environmental management and a sustainable livelihood component involving small animal rearing among
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2009
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31,990.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: KAZ/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/01 |
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Disintegration of state farms on agricultural co-operatives and small farms, privatization, decrease in financial, economic and technical maintenance have led to reduction of the grain crops area, a lot of wastelands have appeared. The project ( ... )
ers a complex of issues that allow choosing optimum variants of pastures management.
Project aim:
Increase efficiency of the degraded laylands and pastures by means of introduction of alternative methods of land tenure.
Project tasks:
-Raising efficiency of the degraded laylands by means of planting of a long term crops adapted to local conditions
-Set up an irrigated pasture on the
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Jordan
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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: JOR/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/08 |
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The aim of this project is to motivate animal raising in captivity, in particular the (Shami goats). Goat raising in captivity will help decrease desertification in the area, and aid in conserving the biodiversity in Lob. Awareness workshops and ( ... )
ng will help nurture environmental aspects within the local community in daily life activities.
Project Objectives:
1.Decreasing over grazing activities, which will aid in decreasing desertification and conserving the biodiversity in Lob
2. Nurturing environmental aspects with the local community
3. Decreasing the poverty and unemployment ratio
4. Introducing the Shami goat in
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Jordan
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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: JOR/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/12 |
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The project contributes to conserving the natural resources in the area, by increasing sustainable land management practices, rainwater harvesting, and environmental awareness among the local community.
Project Specific Objectives:
- ( ... )
ving the natural resources, along with improving the livelihood and living conditions of the local community, by using a circulating fund that is given to help initiate water conservation and sustainable land projects.
- Enhance the awareness of the local community about water harvesting practices.
- Enhance the status of the local community through upgrading their skills and income, which
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Barbados
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Land Degradation
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2009
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2,181.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: BAR/SGP/OP4/YEAR3/CORE/09/01 |
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This Planning Grant will help the Young Women Christian Association of Grenada to introduce organic farming and alternative livelihoods to young women in urban and rural Grenada who are unemployed, disempowered and need assistance. Project ( ... )
ties will include meetings, one major workshop, doumenting the entire process using video and still photographs, and hiring a facilitator to help the group to develp a Full Grant Project Proposal.
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Cuba
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Land Degradation
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2009
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35,845.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: CUB/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/2009/05 |
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El presente proyecto se desarrollará en la Comunidad de El Sopapo del Consejo Popular de igual nombre, en las áreas de la Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria 10 de Octubre en el municipio Cumanayagua, provincia de Cienfuegos. Esta zona ( ... )
ta varios problemas ambientales entre los que se destacan la degradación de los suelos, la deforestación, la afectación a la diversidad biológica, la contaminación de las fuentes de abasto de agua, entre otros.
El asentamiento El Sopapo, es uno de los asentamientos pertenecientes al macizo montañoso del Escambray constituyendo este espacio natural un lugar excepcional, que posee
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Barbados
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Land Degradation
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2009
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34,700.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: BAR/SGP/OP4/YEAR2/CORE/09/11 |
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This project creates a link between environmental health and human health through the consumption of organically grown foods. It also seeks to develop small organic backyard gardens among persons suffering from diabetes, schools and the community. ( ... )
ecific project objectives are to: (i) promote organic gardening (including composting and recycling) as a link to environmental awareness and better quality and safe food supply of fruits and vegetables; (ii) develop networks to sustain and encourage the use of organic gardening methods and composting/recycling to provide indigenous fruits and vegetables; (iii) market and sell organic produce
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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2009
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34,500.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/2/CORE/09/01 |
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This project seeks to address and respond to several problematic issues facing the communities
in the upper Rio Grande Valley. Approximately 4,000 citizens reside in this area of buffer zone to
the BJCMNP, and all are considered ?marginalized? due ( ... )
nt decades of failing
agricultural markets and degrading infrastructure. Whereas many households are choosing to
relocate from their ancestral lands, members of BPFA continue in efforts to rebuild and
strengthen natural and cultural resources within these communities. BPFA responds with
progressive, sustainable techniques for reducing costs of living and for protecting the
environment with
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Mauritania
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Land Degradation
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2009
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26,127.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: MAU/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/09 |
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Le projet vise la conservation et la restauration des sols pour limiter l?érosion hydrique et favoriser l?infiltration. Il envisage en la régénération des certaines essences locales (gommiers, acacias, jujubiers, ?) qui contribueront à la ( ... )
ration du tissu végétal de la zone. Les fruits naturels produits par ces espèces végétales pourront être commercialisés et constitueront une source de revenu pour les bénéficiaires.
Le projet vise à améliorer les conditions de vie des populations et la reforestation de la zone par le développement de la production de produits naturels participant à la consommation traditionnelle
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Jordan
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Land Degradation
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2009
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: JOR/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/06 |
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This project will aim at increasing the awareness of the local community on collecting rain water and using it to preserve and conserve the old Roomi olive trees in the Tubnah area.
Project activities will help in:
- Increasing the local ( ... )
ity?s awareness on preserving rainwater and using it.
- Increasing the local community?s awareness on conserving the old roomi trees in the area and preserving it.
- Improving the local community?s rain water harvesting systems.
- Improving the living conditions of the local community through supporting small income generating projects through a revolving fund.
- Enhancing and
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Mongolia
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Land Degradation
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2009
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11,712.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: MON/SGP/OP4/Y2/Core/09/04 |
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This project will establish two tiny community protected sites close to each other with permanent tree nursing and planting activities in the left bank of Kharaa river near Bayangol soum to contribute to soum?s ongoing efforts of conserving Kharaa ( ... )
willows and make it a model soum.
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Malawi
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2009
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26,600.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: MLW/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/01 |
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The overall aim of the project is to empower and build capacities of forest-adjacent communities within Rumphi District to improve household income and manage forest resources within their jurisdiction sustainably. Towards this end, the project ( ... )
s to introduce and promote both forest and non-forest based micro-enterprises among economically weak and nutritionally insecure households. Specifically, the project intends to:
? Improve quality and expand the range of products by enhancing means for local processing and quality control of products from forest-based enterprises.
? Develop a replicable model for Community Based Natural
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Mongolia
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Land Degradation
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2009
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11,549.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: MON/SGP/OP4/Y2/Core/08/08 |
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This grantee will establish a green belt zone with sea-buckthorn dominated garden inside to develop local ecosystem with further intention of producing best quality fruit tree seedlings and conservation of sea buckthorn genetic specification as well ( ... )
nhance rural residents knowledge and significance of greening.
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Nicaragua
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Land Degradation
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2009
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24,703.77
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: NIC/SGP/OP4/CORE/Y3/09/09 |
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La Cooperativa en representación de tres más, en su mayoría compuesta por mujeres ejecutarán este proyecto para promover y desarrollar prácticas y técnicas de producción orgánica en los socios y no socios de la cooperativa para una ( ... )
ción más limpia y de mejor calidad. La comunidad ya ha iniciado un proceso de conversión a la agricultura orgánica y reforestación de áreas
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