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Sustainable Crop and Livestock Farming for Climate Smart Land-use Management, Income Generation and Food Security

This project ?Sustainable Crop and Livestock farming for Climate Smart Landuse Management, Income Generation and Food Security? is a complementary project aimed at consolidating the gains of the previous project ?Agroecology Farming for Sustainable Landuse Management? implemented in 2018.The project constitutes components of semi-intensive livestock ranching, organic vegetable and economic tree farming in five target communities to complement and consolidate the gains of the previous GEF SGF funded project. The project would benefit five self-help groups with members totaling at least 350 direct beneficiary farmers with about sixty percent women. Each beneficiary group would be made up of the most vulnerable members of the communities. In each community a Project Steering Committee would be formed to oversee project implementation. The project will complete construction of the perimeter barbed-wire fence of the grazing field, construct additional animal sheds, construct a farm house, storage, and water supply facilities on the existing community livestock ranch farm as well as establish community vegetable and economic tree farms in all the five target communities. Fencing and construction materials would be acquired to complete facilities on the ranch; basic tools, vegetable seeds (onion & pepper), and pest chemical for pest control would be acquired and supplied to participants for establishment of community vegetable farms; and 32,000 economic tree seedlings (cashew, oil palm, mango) would be raised and supplied to participating farmers. Farmer participants would be encouraged as usual to buy livestock animals (cattle, goat, and sheep) from their vegetable and later fruit/processed product sales savings for placement in the community ranch farm. The expected outcome results include: (1) about 60,000 hectares of community land forest regrowth due to reduction of animal open-grazing; (2) about 200 hectares of community land area reforested with economic trees; (3) about 230 women farmers and 280 youths farmers directly engaged in alternative sustainable income generating farming activities; and (4) there is evidence of livelihood empowerment and poverty reduction among over 2,000 rural farm families involving over 10,000 marginalized rural populations in project communities

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Grantee:

TINKIFIRAH DESCENDANTS ASSOCIATION

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP7 ?Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)

Grant Amount:

US$ 10,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 400.70

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 20,242.50

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/ LD/15/10/2021/24

Start Date:

12/2021

End Date:

12/2022

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

. The indigenous kuranko and krio languages that are spoken by all in the communities are the principal medium for deliberation and communication of project activities and tasks. By this means there would be very little or no language barrier for the participation of community members right from conception and planning of project ideas through implementation to the impact evaluation stage. There are very few, if at all any, physically challenged (cripples, mentally ill, blind, deaf and dumb etc) in the target communities. However, the population of women and children in these communities dominates all others

Gender Focus

Given the above population scenario, women, men and youths are sufficiently involved in all the project component activities and tasks. Traditionally, in these communities, men are assigned to doing the difficult hard works like bush clearing, hoeing, planting, and transporting etc, whereas the women are assigned to what is considered not too difficult jobs like food processing, weeding, milking of animals, and harvesting of crops etc. Therefore, this project would engage women predominantly in weeding, harvesting, and food processing, while the men will be more focused on farm clearing and preparation, planting, and ranch fencing and other construction activities

Capacity - Building Component

The organization has capable staff to handle the implementation of the proposed actieveites.

Policy Impact

The project is expected to produce policy impact in the areas of sustainable farming practices and community resources management in the project communities. Exploding human and animal populations, increasing deforestation and land degradation, and intra-community conflicts among crop and livestock farmers, among others, are presently some of the major problems confronting community stakeholders and national leaders for sustainable community resources management. This project will encourage the institution of relevant bylaws to assist surmount some of these crucial problems.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project will be made sustainable by ensuring the sustainable internal financial, operational and management mechanisms as well as ensuring the continuous flow of external supports from relevant development partners to complement. This model of pure organic farming system is new and unique in Sierra Leone for several reasons as follows: First, semi-intensive livestock ranch farming augmented with forage and feed supplement production for farm animals are new techniques that have not been used effectively in developing West African countries like Sierra Leone. Secondly, combining crop and livestock farming system in such a symbiotic relationship have seldom been practiced in an effective way as this project would demonstrate. Finally, this model farming system addresses simultaneously the multiple problems of deforestation, environmental degradation, land use conflicts, hunger and malnutrition affecting populations in project communities and the country.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The project would endeavor for project participants and community members to be able to acquire knowledge and skills from peers. For instance, some communities in the neighborhood have vast knowledge and skills in modern method of vegetable production, tree planting and modern livestock rearing and this project will facilitate learning from these peers. All knowledge, skills, and lessons learned from the project will be document in the relevant reports for the later use of interested parties. Some of these knowledge/skill products include preparation of compost manure, animal fodder and supplement feed production, raising vegetable and tree seedling nurseries, among others.

Notable Community Participation

The youths and women who constitutes the bulk of the direct project participants played fundamental roles in conceiving and contributing to the design of this project. Thus, they express the desire for vegetable, economic fruit tree, and livestock farming as more rewarding methods of reducing destructive forest timber harvest and better sources of income. These ideas were seized by the project development team to frame this environmentally friendly sustainable crop and livestock farming project where vegetables, economic fruit trees and livestock animal are farmed together

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

knowledge in the preparation and utilization of animal manure as organic fertilizer to support fruit tree plantation and vegetable production would be shared with others. The government can even use the ranch model of the project for the Fulani nomadic pastoralist to adopt this practice in order to minimize livestock expansion and conflict with crop farmers in other parts of the country.

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Biophysical

Hectares of degraded land rest 6000

Biophysical

Hectares of land sustainably managed by project 192

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 400

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