Empowering Small-Holder Farms for Preventing Desertification and Enhancing Livelihoods through Soil, Water and Agro-biodiversity Augmentation
The main objective of the project is building climate resilience by improving adaptive capacities of the smallholder farms to mitigate the effects of climate in the identified villages engaged in rainfed farming mainly to address the issue of land degradation and desertification. Specific emphasis will be given for soil and water conservation. The project will be implemented in 500 acres involving 500 farmers @ 1 acre per farmer to establish the model. The project will be implemented in the CBO platform mainly to ensure the sustainability of the initiative. The integration of tree Plantation in the project will not only increase the tree cover in village but also plays a dual purpose of providing food and income to households at a later date. It will increase the micro-climate and reduce the impacts of climate risks to some extent. The identified and proven strategies and mechanisms will be replicated in future. The yield of the principal crop will increase by 25% and income by 30% as a result of the interventions.
Project Snapshot
Grantee:
THE COVENANT CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT
Country:
India
Area Of Work:
Land Degradation
Grant Amount:
US$ 49,197.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 151,149.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
Project Number:
IND/SGP/OP7/Y3/CORE/LD/2023/02
Status:
Currently under execution
Project Characteristics and Results
Inovative Financial Mechanisms
? Project management information system will be developed and collected at regular interval for M&E and for taking key decisions.
? Success story documentation will be done and disseminated to all key stakeholders for replication and to get their approval.
? Workshops with all relevant stakeholders will be conducted to consolidate and validate the experience of the project.
? Best practices will be documented and disseminated widely
? Documentation in different forms both in print media and digital media will be taken-up.
Notable Community Participation
? The project will focus on skilling youth and Women on advanced and resilient farming technologies and reintroducing eco-friendly traditional practices for next generation farming. Through this intervention
o The project will include 360 women farmers out of 500 total estimated target farmers, who will take lead role in the project interventions
o The project will identify and train 25 youth farmers in advanced farming methods in response to changing climates and production technologies and all of them would have been graduated as the agripreneurs. This would have set an example for others to get confidence on taking farming as a business option.
o A group of 25 women would have been trained in core and allied farming enterprises like input production, farm mechanization, who will complement the promotion of resilient farming practices
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SGP Country office contact
Mr Manish Kumar Pandey
Email:
Ms Aradhana Goyal
Email:
Address
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New Delhi, Delhi, 110003
New Delhi, Delhi, 110003
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