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Displaying 2881 - 2890 of 6947Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) in Zambia
General
"Support to Zambia Land Alliance Work Plan 2013. The project is continuation to the ""Support to Zambia Land Alliance Work Plan September 2009-September 2012"" which is based on the ZLA strategic plan 2009-2013. Activities to be implemented :Land rights an d empowerment programme a)To promote security of customary land and sustainable land use by poor men women and youths especially in ZLA operational areas b)To promote and protect the rights of displaced and potential internally displaced persons and minori ty groups in ZLA operational areas c)To strengthen local accountability in the land administration system for the urban and rural poor in ZLA operational areas d)To advocate for appropriate and timely reforms of laws and policies pertaining to land deliver y and administration especially for the poor and vulnerableCommunication and networking programmea)To provide land related information in innovative and appropriate formats for use by stakeholders at local national and international levelsInstitutional dev elopment and management programme a)To review and strengthen the structures linkages and operations of the District Land Alliances b)To improve ZLA's governance and management effectiveness and sustainability of its organizational programmes"
Influencing Policy for Sustainable Cocoa Landscapes in Ghana
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In Ghana, we aim to agree on better policies for planted and naturally occurring trees and land tenure arrangements, to enable cocoa farmers to adopt good agricultural practices. Cocoa farmer organisations, Chiefs, land committee, queen mothers, assembly members, private companies, research institutions and CBOs of Sefwi Wiawso were engaged in dialogue. Jointly recommendations for policies, by-laws and norms for on-farm tree ownership and land access security were formulated and agreed. A new lease agreement document that defines rights and obligations of tenant cocoa farmers and traditional authorities (landowners) is about to get finalized, allowing for automatic renewal of forty years and giving cocoa farmers more certainty on their land rights. We provided practical support to 4 farmer organisations and 5 CBOs to raise their knowledge around land and tree ownership and acquisition policies. Particularly women’s access to land has been on the agenda in 20 communities to prepare them for the stakeholder dialogue and meaningful participation.
Securing land rights and food souvereignity of small scale farming households in Campina Grande
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Verbesserung der Landrechtssituation und der Ernährungssicherheit von Kleinbauernfamilien in der Diözese Campina Grande / Paraíba
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Verbesserung der Landrechtssituation und der Ernährungssicherheit von Kleinbauernfamilien in der Diözese Campina Grande / Paraíba
F.a: Himwa: Pastoralists in the Changing livelihoods
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Project seeks alternative means of improved livelihood strategies for traditional pastoralism by sensitization, trainings and advocacy. Specifically, the activities include sensitization and training in human rights, improvement of natural resources manage ment for sustainable pastoralism and conflict resolution skills to facilitate the co-existence and harmony between farmers and pastoralists. Skills to start and improve income generation activities embodied with entrepreneurship skills training and busines s development services are highly addressed, as well as cross cutting issues; land rights, environmental protection, food security and crop cultivation, hiv and aids and gender development. Pastoralism as a livelihood and lifestyle require mobility of past oralists with their cattle in search of pasture, water and salt licks. Population growth and growing need of farm land have diminished grazing areas and the situation causes conflicts between pastoralists and farmers. National policy processes reduce the c apacity for pastoralists to engage into meaningful livestock based livelihood practices. Most policies and laws of the land are designed to restrict the practice of pastoralism while at the same time converting land and other resources under pastoralism in to other uses. As outcome of the project, pastoralists’ awareness and skills in alternative means of livelihood and income generating activities will be raised and sustainable and environmental friendly means of grazing livestock will be in use. Conflict s regarding land use will be reduced and pastoralists’ legal ownership to land will be clarified and raised. Beneficiaries of the project are pastoralist and agro pastoralist members of the Maasai, Barabaig and Sukuma ethnic groups living in southern Tan zanian, specifically in Morogoro region. In phase 2015-2017 project will also put more emphasis on gender issues and persons with disabilities. Project is implemented by HIMWA (Development Services for the Pastoralists), which is a development organization of Maasai, Barabaig and Sukuma ethnic groups.
National Initiatives for Sustainable & Climate Smart oil Palm Smallholders Nigeria
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In Nigeria, working with 12,000 smallholder farmers (approx. 20% of registered smallholder farmers in Nigeria), NI-SCOPS setup Multi Stakeholder Platforms at community and Local Government levels with 2 Committees to coordinate community-based land use planning, and Sustainable Management Plans and Policy Coordination. The project also secured private sector funding support from Henkel and from Releaf MarketPlace International.
La Novia Landscape Conservation Initiative
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The Alto Purs region of Peru, comprised of the Alto Purs National Park, the adjacent Purs Communal Reserve (a buffer zone of titled indigenous lands), and two protected reserves for isolated indigenous communities, harbors world-class levels of mammal and bird diversity (194 and 510 species, respectively) and globally endangered and threatened species: the black spider monkey (Ateles chamek), giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), jaguar (Panthera onca), and the arapaima (Arapaima gigas), among the worlds largest freshwater fish that has been extirpated from all but the most remote parts of Amazonia. This project will support conservation efforts in Alto Purs by strengthening the La Novia Conservation Alliance between Perus park service, local indigenous communities, and non-indigenous townspeople, and protect threatened species by promoting income alternatives to unsustainable and illegal resource extraction. Activities include: community training and fieldwork to increase the population of the Yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), assessing populations of the giant river otter and arapaima fish to inform future management strategies, training and equipping community vigilance committees to more effectively respond to illegal resource extraction by outsiders, implementing the regions first community lake management plan, and providing support for a new research station and eco-tourism.