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Displaying 331 - 335 of 353Las cadenas agroindustriales y la diversificación agrícola en El Salvador
Proyecto sobre Promoción de la Integración Social y Económica de los Pequeños y Medianos Agricultores a la Agroindustria
Pequeña agricultura y agroindustria en el Perú
Proyecto sobre Promoción de la Integración Social y Económica de los Pequeños y Medianos Agricultores a la Agroindustria
Nuevas experiencias en materia de planificación urbana y gestión ambiental: el caso de Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Seminario Regional sobre Avances y Perspectivas de la Gestión Ambientalmente Adecuada de los Residuos Urbanos e Industriales
LAND-at-scale Egypt Participatory Land-Use Consolidation for Climate Resilience and Inclusive Business Models
Agriculture in Egypt, in particular in Upper Egypt, is characterised by smallholder farming. With a growing population (now 109 million people) and 4% of land being cultivatable concentrated along the Nile River, land fragmentation poses a substantial challenge, exacerbated by constrained land and water resources. This fragmentation results in the subdivision of agricultural land into smaller, irregular parcels, leading to the inability to carry out sustainable crop management, including pest control and efficient water use. Land fragmentation is one of the most important structural obstacles in organising agricultural production services and applying collective agricultural rotation, which are a necessary conditions for conserving natural resources and increasing efficiency. Furthermore, it is a major obstacle to the development of organised value chains and marketing systems. Thus, land fragmentation substantially undermines the productivity and income of smallholder farmers.
The project will aim to reduce land fragmentation through participatory land use consolidation for climate resilience and inclusive business models, to increase the productivity and income of smallholder farmers, and to strengthen the institutional capacity of key institutions on land governance aspects.
Four key strategies will be employed:
- Assessing the suitability and applicability of various land-use consolidation tools including the development of inclusive business models;
- Awareness raising, mobilizing communities, and strengthening capacities at the local, governorate, and national levels;
- Piloting land-use consolidation models, focusing on (1) crop consolidation and private sector engagement and (2) land-use consolidation tailored for climate adaptation including demonstration plots;
- Facilitating learning, knowledge dissemination, and policy advocacy in collaboration with the government to enable scaling up of successful practices.
LAND-at-scale is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and managed by the Netherlands Enterprise and Development Agency (RVO). The project in Egypt is supported with 1.485.000 Euros. To stay updated on this LAND-at-scale project and others, please sign up(link is external)(link is external) for our quarterly newsletter.
South Africa - Operationalizing Community-Driven Multiple-Use Water Services Project
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The Operationalizing Community-Driven Multiple-Use Water Services is initiated to increase levels of investments in multiple-use water services (MUS) . The project will also contribute to increased annual rates of Gross Domestic Produc (GDP) growth (3.0% per annum by 2020) and achievement of the national target for creating jobs for 300,000 households in agricultural smallholder schemes. Its impact will be improved income generation and community health in poor rural and peri-urban communities in South Africa. This project will be implemented for a total duration of 48 months and its total cost is estimated at € 1,745,059, of which the AWF will finance € 1,340,000 (77%). The Project will deliver three (3) key outcomes: (i) optimized water resources development and management for improved service delivery; (ii) improved local water use planning and management; and (iii) increased investments in improved community water services delivery.
Objectives
The purpose of the project is to support the operationalization of Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS) services in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) through demonstration investments, awareness raising, applied research and leveraging of finance.
Target Groups
The direct beneficiaries of the project include (i) households and local communities in Sekhukhune District and Vhembe District; (ii) local government and district government agencies benefiting from planning support and prepared planning tools and manuals, and (iii) national water sector policy makers and government agencies (Department of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs, Department of Water Affairs, Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform; Department of Human Settlement; Department of Public Works; South African Association of Local Authority).