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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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FrutaS? 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 FrutaS? increase its volume of production and fruit processing. The municipality of Carolina, state of Maranh?o, has many Timbira Indians and various smallholders inhabiting its surroundings, and the
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Tunisia
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Land Degradation
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2004
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48,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TUN/04/03 |
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Le projet d'instauration d'une culture civique environnementale au village de SNADEL (Nefza ? B?jà) vise à :
- pr?parer les conditions favorables au d?veloppement de la culture environnementale auprès des citoyens du nouveau village ( ... )
DEL (Nefza)
- les accompagner en vue d'am?liorer le cadre de vie et leur environnement dans leur espace vital
- prot?ger la lisière du lac du barrage Sidi El Barrak, à proximit? du village
- relancer les activit?s agricoles f?minines, en vue d'am?liorer les revenus de la femme et de la famille.
Les activit?s du projet portent sur :
La sensibilisation de la population à
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India
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2004
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32,115.38
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Phase 2
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Project Number: SGP/GEF/IND/OP2/04/RJ15 |
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Purpose of the project was to conserve the locally available germplasm through people?s participation. The project was framed to generate faith and confidence in local population about the effectiveness of traditional healthcare practices and the ( ... )
ance of local germplasm. It proposed the identification and multiplication of medicinal value plant species and seed varieties that are useful for specific microenvironments and create village level gene banks, where seeds of different varieties available in the region would be maintained for research and
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Brazil
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Land Degradation
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2004
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33,404.18
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Phase 2
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Project Number: BRA/04/09 |
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This project will avoid deforestation by creating a basis for integral use of Pequi (Caryocar brasiliense Camb) and Buriti (Mauritia vinifera) derivatives, as well as reforesting these trees and the native Mangabeira (Hancornia speciosa). Economic, ( ... )
and environmental activities will promote the sustainable use of Cerrado products, with support for excluded families in the municipality of C?cos, in the São Francisco Valley in the state of Bahia. Local workers' organization will be focussed on Cerrado conservation and improvement in the quality of
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2004
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31,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GHA/04/072 |
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To restore, conserve and sustainably manage degraded lands in Sokode Gbogame traditional area and traditionally protected forests (Sacred Grooves) to restore and conserve biological diversity, promote ecotourism and improve on the livelihood of the ( ... )
communities.
The project involves:
1. Creation of Environmental Awareness and Capacity building for degraded land restoration and biodiversity conservation: Activities under this component will seek to educate and develop the capacities of traditional leaders, women?s groups; farmers, the youth and local environmental groups, in land restoration, sustainable management of community lands
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Sri lanka
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Land Degradation
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2004
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6,926.57
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Phase 2
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Project Number: SRL/04/10 |
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Rehabilitation of degraded land and arrest erosion of slopes most vulnerable to land slides through contour stone ridges, gullies and drains; plant trees in selected areas; develop home gardens; training and awareness workshops for the members due ( ... )
vy rain fall this area is vulnerable to landslides and several people have also died inthis area due to this. The project is mainly concerned with adopting methods to minimize land slides and soil conservation. Thus the project will mainly engage in preparing stone water channels, plant 50,000 trees in the area, develop home gardens and help to start a community environment society. A rain
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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 probl?matique de d?sertification 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 intervient ( ... )
pour plus de 90 % dans la satisfaction des besoins ?nerg?tiques des m?nages. Il le sera certainement pour longtemps encore, en l?absence d?alternatives av?r?es et moins co?teuses, au d?triment d?un r?le environnemental reconnu et irrempla?able que jouent les for?ts naturelles et les parcs agro forestiers.
Aujourd'hui, la raret? du bois, son prix et la menace des ?cosyst?mes engendr?e par la
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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 Maca?ba (Acrocomia aculeata) nut as the key species in a region of semi-arid cerrado fields. Located in the Riach?o Valley, part of the S?o 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 semi?rido manejado agroecol?gicamente por 179 productores afroecuatorianos y mestizos de la provincia de Ambuqu?. Agroecosistema productivo manejado con principios de conservaci?n y uso sustentable de la biodiversidad en 190 has. ( ... )
resa rural creada para la comercializaci?n de productos limpios y de certificaci?n org?nica. Capacitaci?n fortalecida para la preservaci?n del ambiente en funci?n de la din?mica del desarrollo local de la parroquia de Ambuqu? en 202
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Honduras
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International Waters
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 protecci?n de la microcuenca de la Quebrada San Jos? de la Punta, se proteger? el bosque primario, se recuperar? las ?reas deforestadas, se apoyar? el establecimiento de pr?cticas agr?colas sostenibles y se impulsar? un red ( ... )
omunitaria de protecci?n y manejo de los recursos
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Bolivia
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Land Degradation
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2004
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32,956.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: BOL/17/03 |
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La escasa precipitaci?n pluvial es una fuerte limitante del ecosistema fr?gido del altiplano, la ausencia de vegetaci?n nativa y compactado de los suelos hacen que no se recargue los acu?feros semi - subterr?neos, con la consecuencia en la ( ... )
uci?n y secamiento de los manantiales, pozos y r?os subterraneos en tiempos de estiaje. Por tanto amerita la urgente b?squeda de acciones al respecto.
La experiencia de SEMTA en otras comunidades muestran que con la implementaci?n de pr?cticas integrales de manejo y conservaci?n de suelos en la parte superior de las vertientes, aumenta el caudal de agua en las mismas, se han recuperado las
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Nepal
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Climate Change Mitigation
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 Weder? 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.
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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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