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Jamaica
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Land Degradation
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2007
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25,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: JAM/06/02 |
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The five districts of Content, Shrewsbury, Fyffe?s Pen, Sellington and especially Cotterwood in St. Elizabeth have been experiencing problems of acute soil erosion which is threatening the stability of land in the area and in effect is a great ( ... )
er risk in the event of heavy rains. When it rains the soil on the hillside of Cotterwood and Content is washed down onto the main road causing major flooding and damage to the road surface.
This results in the community being cut off all together. Three thousand (3000) persons are impacted in one way or another.
For example, community people are unable to continue normal livelihood
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Nicaragua
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Land Degradation
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2007
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5,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: NIC/SGP/OP4/CORE/07/06 |
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Con la ejecución de esta primera fase se busca el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías que ayuden a la disminución del uso de leña en la elaboración de rosquillas que es una de las principales actividades de las mujeres rurales de Somoto. En ( ... )
a con la Universidad de Ingeniería se construirán modelos de hornos y maquina briqueteadora y una vez validada la tecnología se ejecutará el proyecto para que las socias cuenten con hornos mejorados y briquetas como combustible. Se pretende también crear bosques energéticos como una forma de quitarle presión a los pocos bosques que quedan en la
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Romania
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Land Degradation
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2007
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48,980.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ROM/SGP/OP4/CORE/07/05 |
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Project main purpose: to establish and implement an ecological and sustainable pasture management system in the Remetea village, as a model for other regions facing similar problems.
Objectives of the project:
- To increase the local community?s ( ... )
ss relating the importance of the ecological and sustainable pasture management
- To make the basic investments requird to solve the existing ecological problems
- To create the integrated pasture management system in Remetea village, Harghita
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Lithuania
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2007
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21,615.41
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: LIT/OP3/02/06/04 |
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Reactivate, stimulate and popularize cultivation of old rye kinds and their adaptation among community of Rum?i?kës township and local farmers. |
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2007
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45,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: KAZ/SGP/OP4/CORE/07/02 |
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Karaul settlement is a centre of Abay district. The population is 5233 people, 1104 courtyards, 21 farmlands, cattle stock is 21079 heads, the pastures territory is 57 thousand hectares. Cattle-breading is traditional for this area. After the soviet ( ... )
has collapsed, the pasturing system has also fallen down. Local people haven?t had a possibility to rent the land for pasturing. As a result, the cattle have been breading round the village for many years. As the number of the cattle has increased during the previous years, the pressure on the pastures round the settlement has intensified. There are some remote areas that have been used in the
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Jordan
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Land Degradation
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2007
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45,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: JOR/OP3/Y2/07/05 |
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In Wadi Rum area, known for its unique natural, aesthetic and demographic characteristics, the GEF SGP is supporting a cluster of projects aiming at building the capacities of local CBOs, supporting models for alternative livelihood strategies, ( ... )
ucing new technologies that would contribute to the conservation of the special ecosystem of the area, and enhancing the impacts of previous GEF SGP supported interventions there. This project aims to promote alternative livelihood activities that would decrease pressure on the fragile and unique ecosystem of Wadi Rum Protected Area and help in the conservation efforts there. This will be
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Bulgaria
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Land Degradation
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2007
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1,915.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BUL/OP3/3/07/19 |
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Soil is subject to a series of degradation processes or threats. These include erosion, decline in organic matter, local and diffuse contamination, sealing, compaction, decline in biodiversity, salinisation, floods and landslides. A combination of ( ... )
f these threats can ultimately lead arid or sub-arid climatic conditions to desertification. (COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS. Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection [SEC(2006)620] [SEC(2006)1165]
Problem with contaminated soil is among the most important cases in all
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Viet nam
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Land Degradation
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2007
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49,928.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: VN/06/010 |
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Desertification (according to the World Meteorology Organization 1994) is the degradation of ecosystems and spreading of a desert environment in arid, semi-arid and semi-wet places. The process of desertification manifests itself in intensification ( ... )
dity, lack of humidity, accumulation of salts in the earth, decrease in fertility of land, decrease in vegetative cover, change in species and expansion of sand banks or the encroachment of mobile sand dunes. Nowadays, desertification is a global process and is a pressing environmental problem in Vietnam.
Ha Tinh has 137 km of coast, running from C?a H?i to ?èo Ngang. The sand dunes and
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2007
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8,129.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: kaz/06/32 |
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Karakol settlement is located in a dry-steppe zone of Kazakhstan. Population is 2685 people (which is 628 homesteads). The area of pastures round the village is 163300 hectares. The total number of the livestock is 12700 sheep, 4312 large horned ( ... )
ock, 1340 horses and 3420 goats.
Cattle-breading has become the main occupation of the local community of the Karakol village, and now growth of the livestock in each homestead can be observed. New reforms in the country, introduction of private property for land, loss of the earlier existed knowledge of pasture use and lack of financial resources to rehabilitate rational pasture use methods
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Argentina
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Land Degradation
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2007
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9,773.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ARG/OP3-Y2/06/15 |
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El objetivo de proyecto es la reducción de los efluentes liberados por la industria casera de aceitunas de mesa emprendida por 30 integrantes de la Cooperativa "Aimoarauco" de Aimogasta y Arauco, Departamento Arauco (La Rioja) concentrando la ( ... )
ción en un centro único y comunitario. El área donde se desarrollará el proyecto corresponde a la Provincia Fitogeográfica del Monte Xerofítico (Monte de Sierras y Bolsones), con una precipitacion media anual de 90 mm, el suelo con escasa o nula cobertura vegetal, fuertes vientos que generan la desertificación. En este ambiente la conservación del suelo y uso racional del agua resultan
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Mauritius
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2007
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33,493.03
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: MAR/SGP/OP3/26 |
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The main economic activities of Rodrigues are agriculture and fishing. Rodrigues, since its autonomy in 2002, plans to further promote itself as an Organic Production island. The island has a rich heritage of traditional food items, which can be ( ... )
ed and marketed with an organic label. Giving a boost to Rodriguan agriculture is one of the main activities defined in the five-year Plan for the Non-Sugar Agricultural Sector. ?Training of farmers and planters in Rodrigues, the adoption of new technology with a view to enhancing their agricultural productivity has been well emphasized in the plan. Furthermore, it is reported that tourists in
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Botswana
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Land Degradation
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2007
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50,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: BOT/OP3/2/06/30 |
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Ngwao Motheo Theatre Group intends to effectively use performing arts/theatre in community mobilization and creative initiation of serious action against environmental degradation in the Kgatleng district. Botswana is faced by a serious problem of ( ... )
nmental conservation. We depend on our environment for our economy to grow, more specifically and appropriately, we need environment the environment for farming, wildlife and economical purposes. The combination of the three has proved to be a serious problem to laymen, as they cannot combine the three in a sustainable manner of environmental usage. Our country is drifting into a serious
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Sri lanka
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Land Degradation
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2007
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26,900.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: SRL/06/25 |
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This project will minimize land degradation in the forest mountain areas in the Badulla, Monaragala and Ratnapura Districts by preventing forest fires. The project targets an area where local rural farmers live in a geographically isolated locality. ( ... )
imaw Science Foundation (MSF) will establish fire belts in the buffer zone, hold awareness programmes for farmers, set up a youth volunteer corps to prevent fires and plant trees in selected areas that are the most vulnerable. The project will also set up live fences, composed of Gliricidia trees.
MSF believes that the outcomes of this project will be the reduction of forest fires by 80%
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Sri lanka
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Land Degradation
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2007
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17,200.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: SRL/06/11 |
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This project takes place in two sites: Maduhel Kanda (Kumbukkana) and a catchment area of Saddhatissa Wewa at Okkampitiya. Community Resource Protection Centre (CRPC), the grantee organization, has identified 100 beneficiaries in both locations to ( ... )
n the work of land clearing and soil conservation in order to reduce land degradation. Methods utilizing stone bunds, A-frame techniques, live fences and contour and lateral drains will be utilized.
Most of the land preparation work will take place in the beneficiaries? home gardens. The project has already successfully distributed high-quality vegetable and fruit seeds. The beneficiaries
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Namibia
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Land Degradation
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2007
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50,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: Nam-OP3-1-07-03 |
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Project Objectives are 1. Control and manage the spread of the Prosopis tree in the Nossob area 2. Improve the rangeland condition of the Nossob area 3. Improve employment for local community, and increase sustainable livelihoods
The project ( ... )
to address the invasive species, the Prosopis trees in the Nossob River bed in Amunuis Constituency of the Omaheke region. Prosopis trees have invaded the Nossob River bed and are reducing the grazing area available to communal farmers to sustain their livelihood. These trees mainly grow along watercourses, where they produce huge amounts of pods and seeds. These seeds rapidly outgrow natural
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Bhutan
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2007
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2,250.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BHU/OP3/Y2/07/12 |
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The 25 acres of government reserved forest at Bagar in Shali village under Shumar geog, was established in 2002 as the community forest. Presently the community forest has 48 community management group (CFMG). Initiallt the community forest (CF) ( ... )
tablished with the objective of sustainable management of forest to ensure supply of forest produce and services for the long term improvement of the socio-economic status of the present and future generation of the Shali community on sustainable yield basis. However, irrespective of their hardship and endeavor, this was not achieved, due to heavy degradation (surface run-off from rain water and
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2007
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11,613.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: kaz/06/33 |
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Zhumay settlement is located in a dry-steppe zone of Kazakhstan. Population is 165 people. The area of pastures round the village is 736 hectares. The total number of the livestock is 450 sheep, 300 large horned livestock and 80 horses. Maintenance ( ... )
livestock in stall and all-the-year-round cattle grazing round the village, the public pastures are strongly degraded, their efficiency has decreased to a minimum.
The project is directed on restoration of the degraded pastures round the settlement, decrease loading on pastures, increase of productivity of natural haymakings and sowed pastures, raise efficiency of livestock through creation
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Honduras
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Land Degradation
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2007
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20,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: 22/06/2/HND/OP3/SGP |
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El proyecto presentado por el sector el Hondable esta orientado a hacer una intraversión de largo plazo que permita revertir el proceso de desertificación y de desertificación productiva en 7 comunidades. La lógica comunitaria se centra en la ( ... )
dad de establecer masa arbórea de múltiples propósitos que permita proteger el suelo de la acción del fuego, la lluvia, el arrastre y el deshierbe permanente; y con ello recuperar su capacidad productiva y reducir la vulnerabilidad económica y ambiental de las comunidades afectadas.
El proyecto es parte de una estrategia de región desencadenada por la ACESH, COMUDEN y el MPC en los
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Nicaragua
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Land Degradation
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2007
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20,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: NIC/SGP/OP4/CORE/07/05 |
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El proyecto fortalecerá y continuará el trabajo de empoderamiento de las mujeres rurales en el departamento de Jinotega, los productos que cosecharán en las parcelas diversificadas, viveros para la conservación del medio ambiente y el abono ( ... )
ico el que será utilizado en las mismas parcelas y el excedente para su comercialización en las mismas comunidades.
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Honduras
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Land Degradation
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2007
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25,700.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: HND/SGP/OP4/CORE/07/01 |
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La zona sur de Honduras, específicamente los departamentos de Choluteca y Valle constituyen la zona más seca y degradada ambientalmente del país. La población local, junto con un sinnúmero de actores nacionales e internacionales desarrolla ( ... )
es de apoyo para revertir el deterioro ambiental y mejorar el estado de los recursos naturales en la zona.
La Asociación Nacional para el Fomento de la Agricultura Ecológica (ANAFAE), con base en su plan estratégico 2004-2008, ha apoyado procesos de investigación participativa con la metodología de Escuelas de Campo en la zona sur, norte y centro-occidente de Honduras, enfatizando en la
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