There are 4,125 projects that match your search.
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India
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Land Degradation
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2004
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35,111.90
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Phase 2
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Project Number: SGP/GEF/IND/OP2/04/MP02 |
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The purpose of the project is to:-
1. Evolve indigenous techniques at environment conservation for exhibiting the potencial of tibal communities in conservation and sustainable utilization of natural resources.
2. Build models of participatory ( ... )
ment and conservation of land and water resources.
3. Explore the utility of locally available skills and techniques in sustaining natural resources at remote locations.
4. Create a cadre of skilled women groups for ensuring long term sustainability of the project outcomes.
5. Promote sustainable livelihood for the tribal poor thereby lessening the unsustainable utilization of natural
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Mongolia
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Land Degradation
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2004
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10,940.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: MON/03/15 |
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Mongolia used to have been a country which supplied itself with wheat crop and even exported some before 1990s. The country had 1.2 million ha of rotational crop field that time. But when the country started shifting to a market economy, all the ( ... )
ic branches including agricultural ones had failed. Many fruitful agricultural lands were left abandoned as there were no means to support crops.
This grant project is given a local NGO to restore some abandoned land by supporting community activities on cultivation of Buckthorn and Black currant, endemic fruit trees near Sumber village.
2 ha. area was fenced and over 1500 fruit seedlings
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Brazil
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Land Degradation
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2004
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30,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: BRA/04/29 |
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The objective of this project is to replenish the vegetation in degraded areas in the Buritirana Stream springs located in the Buritirana village, and the Peixe River, a Balsas River tributary. Environmental awareness building for the community and ( ... )
ighbors is also an objective. The sustainable use of native Cerrado species will be proposed by ACA, suggesting the replacement of conversion of forest by alternative technologies for smallholder farming, introducing vegetables in the
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Pakistan
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Land Degradation
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2004
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42,406.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: PAK/03/53 |
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The primary objective of the Multan Environment Conservation Project (MECP) is to demonstrate successful, or potentially successful, strategies for mobilizing communities and peoples to conserve their environment through the following ( ... )
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i) Composting of the municipal solid waste and
ii) Establishment of community based solid waste management system and
The overall objective is to positively contribute to an improved environment by reducing global warming through recycling and composting of solid
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Mali
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Land Degradation
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2004
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20,912.04
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Phase 2
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Project Number: MLI/03/22 |
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Le projet vise a (1) réduire considérablement l'utilisation des emballages plastiques pour l'approvisionnement des ménages en produits, (2) mettre en place un systeme durable de recyclage des déchets plastiques. Le projet va sensibiliser la ( ... )
tion des effets néfastes des déchets plastiques sur la santé et l'environnement; former des groupes de femmes spécialisées dans la transformation des emballages plastiques en objets
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Brazil
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Land Degradation
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2004
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18,735.19
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Phase 2
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Project Number: BRA/04/08 |
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This project aims to produce and commercialize sustainable managed handcrafts from the Buriti palm (Mauritia vinifera), using its stem, leaves and bark. This will contribute to income generation in the community and will help to avoid deforestation ( ... )
municipality of Monte Alegre. Capacity building workshops will be offered in gender relations and Buriti management, which will provide the basis for good project execution and will result in development for the communities
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Brazil
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Land Degradation
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2004
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33,400.94
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Phase 2
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Project Number: BRA/04/15 |
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FrutaSã is a fruit pulp factory owned by indigenous associations and operated by the local smallholders. Fruit is bought from a wide variety of suppliers and transformed into pulp for juice at the factory. This helps generate income for the ( ... )
ional populations living in the area, which provides an alternative to giving in to the pressure of the expanding agricultural frontier and subsequent deforestation. The current project seeks to help FrutaSã increase its volume of production and fruit processing. The municipality of Carolina, state of Maranhão, has many Timbira Indians and various smallholders inhabiting its surroundings, and
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Niger
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Land Degradation
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2004
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35,534.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: NER/SGP/OP2/CORE/LD/2004/04 |
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La problématique de désertification et de gestion des ressources naturelles est rendue plus complexe par la question d?approvisionnement en bois des populations qui est de l?ordre de plus de 2 millions de tonnes par an. En effet, le bois ( ... )
ient encore pour plus de 90 % dans la satisfaction des besoins énergétiques des ménages. Il le sera certainement pour longtemps encore, en l?absence d?alternatives avérées et moins coûteuses, au détriment d?un rôle environnemental reconnu et irremplaçable que jouent les forêts naturelles et les parcs agro forestiers.
Aujourd'hui, la rareté du bois, son prix et la menace des
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Brazil
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Land Degradation
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2004
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33,229.97
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Phase 2
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Project Number: BRA/04/02 |
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The project aims to create an improved process for oil extraction of Cerrado plants, using the Macaúba (Acrocomia aculeata) nut as the key species in a region of semi-arid cerrado fields. Located in the Riachão Valley, part of the São Francisco ( ... )
this region hosts activities such as extensive cattle raising and irrigated agriculture, which privatize the land and require deforestation. With the possibility of social and economic use of the coconut groves and disseminating proposals for agroforestry and wildlife management systems, the project will contribute to higher income for traditional populations in the region, as well as helping to
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Ecuador
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Land Degradation
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2004
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50,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: ECU/03/015 |
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Escosistema semiárido manejado agroecológicamente por 179 productores afroecuatorianos y mestizos de la provincia de Ambuquí. Agroecosistema productivo manejado con principios de conservación y uso sustentable de la biodiversidad en 190 has. ( ... )
resa rural creada para la comercialización de productos limpios y de certificación orgánica. Capacitación fortalecida para la preservación del ambiente en función de la dinámica del desarrollo local de la parroquia de Ambuquí en 202
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Honduras
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2004
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30,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: HON/04/07 |
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Para el manejo y protección de la microcuenca de la Quebrada San José de la Punta, se protegerá el bosque primario, se recuperará las áreas deforestadas, se apoyará el establecimiento de prácticas agrícolas sostenibles y se impulsará un red ( ... )
munitaria de protección y manejo de los recursos
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Nepal
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2004
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49,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: NEP/03/11 |
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Slash and Burn agriculture practice with long fallow period is considered as one of the sustainable farming practices. But with the growing population, scarcity of land, and most importantly, with short fallow period, the slash and burn agriculture ( ... )
is considered as one of the worst and unsustainable farming practices in the world. The problem is even worst in Nepal due to its rugged terrain as soil erosion is severe in the barren and sloppy land.
In Makawanpur district, Central Nepal, slash and burn agriculture is still practiced by indegenous peoples-the Chepangs and Tamangs. The land used for the slash and burn agriculture, called as
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Mongolia
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Land Degradation
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2004
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8,550.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: MON/03/21 |
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Like other valuable medicinal plants in Mongolia, Glycyrrhiza, locally named sweet grass, is a medicinal plant which is currently under a serious threat of extinction. Many private companies are interested in harvesting Glycyrrhiza to export to ( ... )
and Japan. Lastly, a medicine named Glycyron is made of Glycyrrhiza in Japan. During the past socialist period, the Government had paid a considerable attention to conserve and cultivate this plant naturally. However, over the last 15 years this plant has been under serious destruction by outsiders and even by local communities themselves to make some money for their survival in the current
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Brazil
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Land Degradation
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2004
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33,282.23
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Phase 2
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Project Number: BRA/04/24 |
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The project seeks to build capacity for the inhabitants of the Wederã Xavante Village in the Mortes River Indigenous Reservation for extensive white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) management. Sustainability for game is sought, in an attempt to ( ... )
e the indigenous tradition of hunting. Telemetry will be used for control of the specimens. A decrease in the pressure on the natural resources of the reservation is one of the main goals of the project. The use of fire for obtaining food is slowly becoming a common practice in the village, and the reversal of this tendency is important.
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Mongolia
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Land Degradation
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2004
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3,590.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: MON/03/20 |
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Desertification is one of the most pressing environmental issues in Mongolia. Desertification is being intensified over most of Mongolia by many factors like sand shifts, negative effects of climate change and pastureland degradation.
This ( ... )
supports a herder community initiative in combating desertification by fixing sand shifts in a sandy area in Burd sum of Uvurhangai province.
A pastureland affected by intensive sand shifts has temporarily been taken out of use by fencing in order to let it naturally rehabilitate itself. To fix sand shift in the area being rehabilitated, 200 sea buckthorn seedlings were planted. The survival
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Guatemala
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Land Degradation
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2004
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14,609.69
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GUA/04/06 |
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The project is about the seed-planting of 56 cuerdas of land, half with native potato and half with corn, by 28 participants( Solanum tuberosum and Zea mays L.). Among the main activities is the local women capacity building on issues as ( ... )
culture, improved composed piles, soil preservation techniques, building of simple henhouses, cultivation and organic control of plagues, all these in order to overcome their depleted soil problems.
The project sustainability is planned to be obtained through the distribution of the crop in three parts, one to be used as seed, the second to improve their feeding, and the third for sale, and so
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Guatemala
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Land Degradation
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2004
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11,931.63
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GUA/04/16 |
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This project is about the establishment of 50 plots of organic Creole crops as potatoes and broad beans in 100 cuerdas of land to be worked by 50 people (Solanum tuberosum L. and phaseolus ). Each participant will also build a henhouse to avoid ( ... )
s for the crops and will gather manure for organic fertilization.
Among their planned main activities are the training on issues as soil preservation; pesticides, fungicides and foliar fertilizers production; organic harvest and monitory and evaluation of the project.
They intend to get sustainability by dividing production into three, one for seeding, one for food consumption and improving
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Guatemala
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Land Degradation
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2004
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19,265.63
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GUA/04/17 |
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This project is about the establishment of 33 plots of organic cultivation, each plot with 1.5 acres of broad beans and 2 acres of domestic potatoes ( Phaseolus and solanum tuberosum L.). Each plot will be worked with soil preservation techniques ( ... )
races and living barriers, amounting to 115 cuerdas organically worked by the 33 project participants.
Among the schedule main activities are training issues on soil preservation, production of pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides and organic foliares fertilizers, and organic sowing, as well as project monitoring and evaluation.
They plan to get sustainability by dividing the production into
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Guatemala
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Land Degradation
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2004
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15,311.22
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GUA/04/04 |
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This project is about planting potatoes and national broad beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L. and Solanum Tuberosum L.), with the intent to use organic materials in the process. The area selected for the 35 participants for this project is of 3 ( ... )
The objectives include the preservation of the environment by abstaining of using chemical products, and consequently the revitalization of native species; therefore, minimizing malnutrition in their children, depleting soils, and extreme poverty.
The participants also plan to obtain extra income through other agricultural projects, in order to improve their nutritional intake. Training
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Guatemala
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Land Degradation
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2004
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17,114.25
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GUA/04/11 |
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40 women and 26 men work in this project in the organic cultivation of broad beans, potatoes, native pumkin and pumkin, ( slanum tuberosum L, phaseisyks, ccucubirta moschata Duch. ex prior and cucubirta pepo L.)besides the collective implementation ( ... )
orestall nursery, and with such purpose the alder, white pine and reddish pine seeds will be recollected.
For project sustainability, one section will be designed to sow seeds, another for consumption, and the other for commercialization. This proposed plan will solve food and economic problems. Besides, through reforestation, the use of organic agriculture and the preservation of soil, the
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