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Displaying 2361 - 2370 of 6947Economic Empowerment for Smallholder Farmers
General
This project will be facilitating or Empowering the community to attain economic growth through interventions; Awareness creation on climate change, adaptation, mitigation and build their resilience. Another intervention that will be facilitated is application of sustainable agriculture land management practices and tree planting. In order to have sustainable and profitable agricultural products Gender involvement will be promoted and of great concern and farm product value addition.
FSAR 2016-2018
General
This Project aims to make stronger the social structure for the promotion, defense and claim of Human Right under a context of conflict and violence because of the defense of land rights and natural resources in the Bajo Aguan Region, it will also enhance the capacities and skills of Aguan’s social organizations and movements for the promotion and legitimation of the defense of Natural Resoruces, Human Rights and protection of threatened HRD. To achieve that the project will strengthen the political, institutional, technical and programmatic capacities of Human Rights Defenders, Civil Society Organization and FSAR itself.
Objectives
This project mainly contributes to results within Fulfilment of human rights commitments. Results will be reported later in the Global Civsam grant period 2016-2020
Global Land Tool Network Partnership
General
Land rights are powerful resources for people to achieve sustainable livelihoods. Switzerland joins others in supporting the Global Land Tool Network (3 rd Strategic Cycle) for its advocacy work and efforts to provide practical land tools available for authorities to ensure that all people, including women, youth and vulnerable groups, have access to land and tenure security. Switzerland brings in the experiences from other land related partnerships at national, regional and global levels.
G4INDO Indonesia
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Geodata for upgrading small holders’ farming systems in Indonesia
Objectives
The primary purpose of the G4INDO project is to assist the Government of Indonesia in its efforts to formulate and implement a financially viable and sound crop insurance policy for smallholder rice-based farmers. More in particular, the project will: • provide technical assistance to the design and implementation of the crop insurance policy in general and to 200,000 farmers in particular. • Monitor the growth of rice crops of 200,000 farmers using radar and optical satellite technology. • Analyse deviations from expected crop development and yields using weather information and crop growth models. The secondary purpose of the project is to: • Provide 200,000 farmers with seasonal forecasting information and expected crop yields supporting decision-making of farmers on growing a third crop. This information reaches the farmers through the agricultural extension system of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Target Groups
G4INDO is aimed at smallholder rice farmers on Java, Indonesia. These farmers typically have land holdings smaller than 2 hectares, many of them have even less than 1 hectare. Land ownership is also highly fragmented and parts of the fields are cultivated on a sharecropping basis.