The primamry aims of the planning grant are to promote the participation of key stakeholders of the proposed project, including local authorities and relevant agencies and communties, and identify project sites, and provide scientific assistance for the project development. Major activities of the project include conducting surveys on socio-economic conditions of the proposed project site, identifying proposed project objectives and activities and assessing their feasibility, and providing needed technical assistance in project design and writing project proposal which will be submitted to GEF/SGP for review and appraisal; and identifying possibilities for project synergies and resource mobilisation.
The proposed project aims to contribute to conserving agrobiodiversity of Trung Khanh District through developing an on-farm conservation model, which encourages farmers to participate in the agrobiodiversity conservation. It will transfer technology on sustainable cultivation on sloping

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land, utilising native plant species and varieties in Trung Khanh District in an agroforestry model, contributing to eradicating hunger and alleviating poverty in the project area through promoting rational use of natural resources and maximising agricultural production to satisfy the food requirements of the people, and to greening the barren land which has resulted from deforestation and slash and burn cultivation practices of the ethnic minorities in the area.

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