There are 381 projects that match your search.
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2008
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49,595.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: TUR/SGP/OP4/RAF/08/01/03 |
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Project area covers Yumurtal?k Lagoons in the east of Çukurova Delta (Adana) and the village named Deveciusagi in lagoons? northern entrance. Yumurtalik Lagoons is part of a large and very important wetland system in Adana region, which is a 59 ha. ( ... )
an internationally important wetland of Turkey in its Mediterranean coast which includes lakes and lagoons formed by Ceyhan River, salty and fresh water marshes, meadows, vast sand dunes between the sea and the lagoons, and forests of Pinus halepensis. The area contains several bird, mammal, amphibian and insect species, some of which are endemic, threatened or rare.
The Project aims to build
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2008
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26,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: TUR/SGP/OP4/RAF/08/01/04 |
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The project aims to support the breeding of the disappearing Ankara Goat (Capra hircus). This goat typically has very high quality wool, but is running the risk of genetic erosion as it is not breed in isolated pure herds, showing specific ( ... )
ion to the needs of the particular animal which is different than the common domesticated goat. With the project, the local people who still have Ankara Goats in their herds, is taught how to breed and feed the animal properly, care and veterinary assistance are provided to make the animals healthier. With healthier animals comes higher quality wool in greater quantities, which would make the
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2008
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: TUR/SGP/OP4/RAF/08/01/02 |
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The project?s main objective is ?sustainable wild life? in Alaçam Mountains. It aims to create a model for a game reserve area and a community management of an hunting ground in order to ensure sustainability of the chukars (alectoris chukar), a ( ... )
pecies seriously threatened locally due to over hunting. The project includes;
? the production and introduction of chukars into the reserve area,
? raising awareness of hunters,
? raising awareness of locals in the benefits of chukars in agricultural pest control,
? monitoring of wildlife,
? creating a community level hunting management Committee including local hunting club members and
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Turkiye
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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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: TUR/SGP/OP4/RAF/08/01/11 |
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The project is complementing the SGPsupported TUR/OP3/2/06/03 project successfully completed by the grantee. This project aims to improve the solar drying unit prototype that was produced in the former project to perfection and to replicate it in ( ... )
llage to improve the quality of dried fruits and vegetables, provide an improved and more steady income to the villagers and to demonstrate the solar ovens in an area that has tremendous replication potential. Kirazli Village now became a known trademark in terms of the local seeds that they are conserving and their products, the solar dryers will allow them to store the products for longer
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2007
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11,570.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/12 |
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The project aims to bring together representatives from ongoing and a selected number of completed SGP projects for sharing and networking with a view to capacity building. The meeting will be organised in Beypazari by Nature Society, who is also ( ... )
ing TUR-05-03 project in the area aiming to establish a model and a working example for sustainable and nature friendly tourism in an Key Biodiversity Area, Inozu Valley, characterised by its big colony of breeding vultures. The meeting will have the central theme of alternative income generating activities in nature conservation projects, the opportunities, bottlenecks and threats, which is a
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2007
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23,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/09 |
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The project aims to build local capacity in and around Kahramanmaras and Ardahan IPAs, which are identified recently through the support of the Environmental Investment Programme of the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Co. The project itself is part of ( ... )
er initiative, again partially funded by the BTC, aiming to demonstrate the importance of several rare plants in the area and aiming to cultivate a selected variety of plants among these for marketing. The overall project includes pilot gardens and trainings. SGP support to the project is aimed at the public awareness and dissemination of good practices generated by the
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2007
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34,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/11 |
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In Kars region, as in most other regions of Anatolia, several heirloom grains which have extreme importance for the villagers are now planted at very small amounts because they cannot reach the market, and as a result finding them nowadays is ( ... )
ered as a miracle. Among these, one of the most important is ?Kavılca? (emmer wheat -Triticum dicococcum), the ancestor of wheat cultivated over 10,000 years.
As part of their sustainable rural projects, Heaven and Earth Anatolia Association, has started working in cooperation together with villagers to increase the cultivation of heirloom varieties and their marketing. One of the first
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2007
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16,500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/07 |
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The project aims to develop a management model for the Giresun Island which is a nesting and breeding habitat for several threatened birds including the Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii, Melanitta fusca and Aythya fuligula. The area is ( ... )
tly used by local people as a touristic attraction however there is pressure on the local administration that there are no infrastructure on the island. The project aims to keep the existing structure of the island intact, while at the same time, allowing a controlled and nature-friendly tourism, through the participatory preparation of a "Conservation and Eco-tourism Development Plan" in close
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2007
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: TUR/SGP/OP4/RAF/07/01/01 |
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Turkey's agricultural biodiversity, to which many cultures have contributed over thousands of year, is today being rapidly depleted by agricultural policies, globalisation, population growth and other socio-economic factors. This depletion is ( ... )
ening the food resources of future generations and eroding cultural diversity. It is estimated that three quarters of agricultural genetic diversity have been lost over the past century, and that reducing the number of food crops cultivated commercially worldwide to around a hundred. Hundreds of fruit varieties that are adapted to soil and climatic conditions, resistant to pests and diseases, and
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2007
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29,100.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/14 |
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The Akyatan Wildlife Development Area, located within the borders of Adana?s Karatas district, received protection status in 1987. The site, covering an area of 15.304 ha, includes the largest dunes ecosystems located in Turkey, extending over 22 km ( ... )
he Mediterranean coastline and reaching, in some sections, a width of 3-4 km. This site is at the same time the most prolific, and therefore important, nesting beach for the globally endangered marine turtle (Chelonia mydas). The Akyatan Forest, covering an area of 2,018 ha and providing a natural border to the sand dunes system, was developed during afforestation work undertaken between
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2007
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23,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/13 |
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The project aims to create a "Seed Network" which will bring together people related to seeds in Turkey, with a view to find and protect the local seeds that have been selected by farmers for generations all through the country. The seed network ( ... )
ecome an important forum for seed-related people to share information and exchange of experiences. It will also be a tool for identifying and conserving local agrobiodiversity and as a powerful advocacy tool regarding the new Seed Law of Turkey, which can have a negative influence on local seed production and
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
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2007
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10,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/10 |
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The Custodians Association intends to be the custodians of seeds for the next generations. They aim to give increasingly improverished small producer a new sense of hope and responsibility towards our eroding agrobiodiversity as a basis for ( ... )
ful, tasty, and low-cost (low-input) food production that, in addition, protects both local economies and the environment. Their project supported by the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) relies on taking out inventories of landraces cultivated in 8 villages of the Balıkesir Ivrindi and Savastepe regions, encouraging a new appreciation for traditional farming practices, including seed
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Turkiye
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International Waters
International Waters
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2007
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34,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/08 |
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The overfishing has not only depleted the fish population in the Mediterranean Sea but also caused malnutrition of the monk seals, which in turn affected their reproductive success. Trawls were the first to go and then followed by the larger purse ( ... )
fishing boats. As a reaction to the depletion of fish stocks and monk seal disappearance from the Mediterranean, The Levant Nature Conservation Society started a project by taking initial support from UNDP/BTC Small Investments Fund, aiming to demonstrate a model of living in which the monk seals and fishermen can co-exist. The main idea of the project is to ensure the continuity of the artisanal
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2006
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37,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/06/03 |
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The project aims to revitalise the local agrobiodiversity of the Kirazli Village, which is marked with a species of black cherry, a local olive variety and a grape variety as landraces. There are also several local vegetables varieties slowly ( ... )
earing in Turkey, that managed to survive in Kirazli village. Black cherry, pink tomatoes, white gumbo, speckled long watermelon, black long watermelon, chamber bean, bream pea, cowpea, ?Kadınbudu? watermelon? These are some of the local agricultural products produced in the Aydın Kusadası Kirazlı village. Through generations, at harvesting time, the most appealing products
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Turkiye
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2006
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10,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: TUR-05-14 |
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The Village of Sahmuratlı on the Central Anatolian Plateau, and its Kerkenes Eco-Center is the ideal venue for the demonstration and promotion of the use of renewable energy on a regional scale as well as a national one. The proposed project ( ... )
the way to the desirable improvements of rural conditions and infrastructure. This can be perhaps be perceived as bringing the ?city? to the village in an attempt to halt and even reverse the migration of villagers from the rural areas to the urban centers known to be a source of much of the environmental pollution blamed for climate change.
The project is concerned with the use of solar energy
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Turkiye
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2006
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17,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: TUR-05-12 |
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The project aims to demonstrate the possible uses of biogas which is revealed as a result of the anaerobic conversion of the animal wastes as a source of renewed energy and, for that reason, present the construction of an innovator system which is ( ... )
o respond the local necessity of energy and is appropriate for the usage in a local level. In that way, both the problems caused by animal wastes will be decreased on a large scale and economically productive renewable energy source will be submitted to the usage in a small scale.
There are 47 rural settling areas in the pack region of Küre Mountains National Park. People living in that
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Turkiye
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2006
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35,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: TUR-05-10 |
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Biogas is a combustible and colorless gas which is derived from the breakdown of organic compounds in an anaerobic (no oxygen) environment. It can be used as an alternative to natural gas and LPG. The Kahramanmaras Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( ... )
he cooperation of Sütçü İmam University and with the support of The GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) have built two biogas pilot installation of 15 m³ capacity in Ayaklıcaoluk and Elmalar Villages in Kahramanmaras.
The first installation in Ayaklıcaoluk, which is a first in Turkey after 1980s, is being used in three houses where no more LPG supply needed. Moreover, in
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Turkiye
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2006
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27,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: TUR-05-13 |
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The project aims to demonstrate the importance of insulation in heating efficiency by choosing 3 houses from 4 villages (chosen to be the one with biggest insulation problems, therefore highest heating costs and are occupied by the largest number of ( ... )
. The project area is one of the most important forest ecosystems in Turkey, which is among the oldest forest in Europe. The locals rely on wood resources for their heating mostly and due to the local architecture and the climatic conditions (very harsh winters - area cannot be reached by road for over 5 months each year), the consumption is at excessive levels. With this project, the
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2006
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40,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/06/05 |
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Yenikoy Village in the Gole district of Ardahan is positioned in the highest peak of the Yalnizcam forests. Due to the high altitude of 2400m of the village, the temperatures in the winter fall to -30˚ C. Approximately 30 tons of fuelwood per ( ... )
old is consumed annually. In Yenikoy house walls are made of stones and roofs are of logs and adobe. While this may serve as an advantage during summer as it helps isolate the heat, during winter when the roofs get wet, it results in an increased loss of heat. In addition the leaking water threatens the quality of life and health of inhabitants; moreover accelerates the rotting of the logs
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Turkiye
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Land Degradation
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2006
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37,500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/06/02 |
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The overall objective is to conserve soil, water and wetlands with sustainable agricultural practices (effective water use, fertilizers) in the semi-dry lands of Central Anatolia. The project aims to demonstrate and disseminate the experiences of ( ... )
yseri Sugar Beet Cooperative in using drip irrigation for sugar beet production. The NGO has been actively involved in the demonstration of the activity since 2005 in their region, which is a regular land for cultivation of sugar beet. With the SGP project, the project aims to improve the existing drip irrigation systems, install newer and more effective ones based on the experiences of the
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