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October 24, 2007
Best Practice: Promotion of Private Sector Development in Agriculture, Kenya-
To support small and medium-scale enterprises in tapping market potential, the programme applies an adapted value chain development approach. In a nutshell, the private sector actors are empowered to actively and efficiently participate in markets wher ...
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October 10, 2007
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Best Practice: Environmental-oriented Management of Local and Regional Development in Pará and Amapá
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The project followed a two-fold approach: promoting value chains based on biodiversity linking communities and companies in business-partnerships, and promoting the diversification of community income and business opportunities to prevent undesired depend ...
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October 9, 2007
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Best Practice: Linking tea farmers with markets
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The Sahyadri Tea Farmers’ Consortium was established to overcome poor market access of small-scale tea farmers. After participatory appraisals with self-help groups that were coordinated by Village Development Councils, the consortium was established, a ...
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October 4, 2007
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Best Practice: Kodkitunda Watershed Management
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Due to steep slopes, inadequate land use and intensive rainfall, soil erosion and degradation of arable land in Mankadamundi has been very high. Under the guidance and with technical advise of AGRAGAMEE, an indian NGO, the villagers established Water ...
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October 4, 2007
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Best Practice: Support of Indigenous People (“Adivasi”)
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The intervention aimed at generating environmentally sustainable income generation for marginalized tribal populations (the Adivasi) living in chronic poverty conditions, distress migration, and with very low-level of confidence. Family-based agri-ho ...
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October 4, 2007
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Best Practice: Enhancing diverse livelihoods in Western India
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Aiming to sustainably improve the livelihoods of 700,000 poor tribal people in Western India, the project inculded participatory generation, testing and dissemination of improved farming systems technologies (especially plant varieties), testing and ...
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October 4, 2007
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Best Practice: Harnessing the private sector for pro-poor agricultural growth
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The Business-Focussed Challenge Funds for private sector initiatives has the following objectives: (1) Set up a cost-sharing grant scheme with competitive bidding, grants being allocated to profit-seeking projects that best meet the challenge funds c ...
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October 4, 2007
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Best Practice: Environmental-oriented Management of Local and Regional Development in Pará and Amapá
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The project followed a two-fold approach: promoting value chains based on biodiversity linking communities and companies in business-partnerships, and promoting the diversification of community income and business opportunities to prevent undesired dep ...
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October 4, 2007
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Best Practice: Postcosecha - Post-harvest Storage
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Post-harvest losses of maize grain through borers is an important factor for food insecurity and poverty in rural central America. SDC and local stakeholders initiated a project with the clear aim of developing a functioning technology for maize stor ...
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October 4, 2007
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Best Practice: Securing agricultural and livelihood sustainability: the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Story
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The livelihoods of the people living in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) are highly interconnected with the dynamics of the natural system, as most of the population depends on the agricultural sector. The Core Environment Programme (CEP) add ...
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