There are 213 projects that match your search.
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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1996
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8,747.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/12 |
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Mpaba project is located in Mlambatema village ,ward 4 of Umzingwane district.This is a dry area and food production is only possible where practises of land are ecologically friendly to help sustain the land. Mpaba project was supported by the ( ... )
ry Commission especially in ensuring that the project takes off. The other stakeholders that provided them support include Jekesa Pfungwa, DNR, AREX and the Umzingwane Rural District Council.
It is hoped that agroforestry will maximise yields per unit of land .
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
-To ensure that every unit area is put to its potential use giving optimum returns at any given rate
-To
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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1995
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40,567.68
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/01 |
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The project is situated in Chesa 40km east of mount Darwin in natural region 3b with erratic rainfall not reliable for cropping, and was initiated by a group of 6 farmers .The project was proposed as an alternative land use option that will reduce ( ... )
ation and protect the natural resources against soil erosion, siltation and deforestration.By adopting the ostrich land use option , farmers will reforest and revegetate overgrazed and formerely cultivated , degraded lands and give the farmer a better land use return per unit area through ostrich production diversification.This project will reintroduce the ostrich species within the indegenous
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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1995
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24,638.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/09 |
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Gugulethu project is located in Mtshede village,Ward three of Umzingwane district. The project is approximately 25 km from Esigodini growth point in Matebeland South.This is a dry area and food production is only possible where practises of land use ( ... )
logically friendly and help to sustain the land.
The objectives of the project are to
- support community initiatives at protecting the environment and promoting ecologically sustainable development.
-ensure that every unit of land is put to its potential use giving optimum returns at any given rate.
-improve the degenarated environment by ensuring that land is efficiently used.
-conserve
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Zimbabwe
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Multifocal Area
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1995
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26,777.77
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Phase 1
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/11 |
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The project is in Chigumira village of ward 22 in Chipinge District.The site of the project is 220km from Mutare and only 400m from the Save river.The broad goals are to help curb extensive siltaton of the save micro catchment and to enhance the ( ... )
tion of intwernational waters.The other goal is to promote biodiversity through the introduction of self sustainable activities like friut farming, market gardening, sugarcane plantation and the vertiva grass nurseries.
Objectives
-make the project a major focal point from which the community can learn ways of protecting and managing resources through growing of vertiva grass and proper ways
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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1995
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4,064.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/08 |
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Jirimhanda project is located in Nyika District.It can be characterised as lying in natural region 111 which has semi-intensive cultivation and rainfall averaging 650-800mm a year. The area is however facing problems common to most communal areas .A ( ... )
ncrease in population combined with scarcity of land, is resulting in increasingly intensive utilisation of available resources.Deforestration and soil degradation are now becoming apparent and traditonal farming methods are no longer sustainable.
In order to curb the trend of increasing environmental degradation , the Jirimhanda community identified these projects ;crop farming ,water
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Zimbabwe
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Land Degradation
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1995
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50,000.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/14 |
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The Longwe Ostritch Project is located in a village on the eastern section of the Kennilworth Resettlement Scheme some 120 km northeast of Bulawayo. Prior to resettlement the area boasted of a wide diversity of wiidlife such as kudu, impala , ( ... )
, tsetsebe , monkeys ,warthogs,and the burrowing -living cats.There was also an abundance of bird life including the strich, stocks and fliers.
The introduction and increase in human population densities resulted in a marked decrease in the populations of wildlife as convetional communal land use systems ,and livestock management take precedence.Some species like the ostrich are threatene with
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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1995
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32,312.11
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Phase 1
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/10 |
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The Serengeti Five project is located in the Chiduku communal land of Makoni district in Manicaland province. The project area has been allocated 12 hectares for field crops, 8 hectares for dam site, 8 hectares for lodge and 3 hectares for nursery ( ... )
shment and another 3 hectares for preservation of the natural woodland. The project essentially includes a plethora of activities , namely waterharvesting , market gardening and ecotourism.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
1) To conserve and manage resources sustainably and to stimulate neighbouring communities to do the same through learning by example.
2) To encourage sustainable agriculture production
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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1994
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50,000.00
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/03 |
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The Chandarwarira Bangira Dam and Grazing Scheme is an initiative by the community in Ward G of Mhondoro aimed at environmental rehabilitation.As with most communal areas ,Mhondoro suffers the problems of soil erosion , deforestration and shortage ( ... )
er .The sum total of this is the problem of desertification resulting in extensive losses of biodiversity. The propsed dam will ensure increased supplies of water in the dam without which all attempts at biodiversity protection will not succeed . The dam will hold up to 30 400m3 or 66 87057 gallons of water at full capacity.
Most erosion problems in communal areas result from poorly managed
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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1994
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41,786.00
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/04 |
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The Mbazhe Dam is situated in Gezekhaya Village in Ngomambi South Ward ,Nkayi District. The dam is approximately 42 kilometres north west of Nkayi Growth Point.The area falls uder natural region iv and has an annual rainfall of between 450mmand ( ... )
Mbazhe dam was established as a nature reserve for the purpose of creating a breeding place for ducks and birds and a rest camp for the then District Commissioner and his visitors.Apart from the birds and ducks , the Mbazhe Dam is also home to the crocodiles and fish.
Illegal settlers who moved into the area deliberately ignored any conservation practises to conserve the environment and there
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Zimbabwe
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Climate Change Mitigation
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1994
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40,706.67
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/02 |
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The Chingwa wood saving stoves project is located in Chiduku,Chiweshe, Esiphezini districts in Mashonaland Central , Manicaland ,and Matebeleland south.The project is an effort to reduce massive deforestration for fuelwood rampant in the areas and a ( ... )
emancipate women .This is an environmentally friendly technology as it uses less fuel than open fires thus emitting less greenhouse gases and contributing less to global warming.Since the stoves use less fuel wood ,less trees are cut and deforestration is minimized. Carbon dioxide sinks are maintained.Use of stoves decreases fuelwood collection ,so the women`s time and labour can be gainfully
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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1994
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8,207.58
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/06 |
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The project is located in Putsa village Chimhenga area in Zimunya -Marange district.The problems of deforestration, soil erosion and general water shortage are evident in this district as they are in most communal lands in Zimbabwe.Chisichako ( ... )
a Mashoma Club have embarked upon a project to establish indegenous woodlots,water harvesting to ensure the survival of the planted trees and training of the local community in environmental management.
The overall objective is to initiate sustainable management of the indegenous woodland resource base and incresae biomass production.This will assist in reversing current trends at widespread
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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1994
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14,007.69
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/05 |
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The Nyachityu water haversting project is located west of Marange Communal Lands.The project was motivated by the need to secure a water source which could then be used for domestic purposes,livestock and gardening.
The project was started with ( ... )
jectives of harvesting and storing water, improving food security, fostering environmental awareness and conservation in the area and promoting income generation.
The activities involved were;
-construction of a weir
- gully reclamation
-conservation training
-erection of live fencing.
The community members ,the Manicaland Development Association and the AGRITEX are the participants in
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Zimbabwe
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International Waters
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1994
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24,628.81
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: ZIM/92/G31/07 |
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Recognising the worsening environmental degradation resulting in the siltation of the save river , the buhera district council pushed for action to be taken so as to rehabilitate the river.this project seeks to provide training to community ( ... )
entatives on resource conservation and these will spearhead environment management and sustainable resource utilisation effectively.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
-To promote sustainable development in the region by mobilizing grassroots organizations in the design and implementation of resource conservation strategies
- To establish, co-ordinate and upgrade activities towards the protection of the
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