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October 4, 2007
Best Practice: Afforestation and smallholder forestry projects
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The project, in close cooperation with national programmes, implemented activities to secure land tenure for the target group. It developed possibilities of income generation through afforestation with site-matching native species on unpr ...
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October 4, 2007
Best Practice: Social Forestry Development Project Song Da
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The project aimed at increasing the forest area, combat erosion and the destruction of natural resources by the development and dissemination of adapted technical and participative methods. It strengthened the management capacities of village communi ...
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October 4, 2007
Best Practice: Rural and Forestry Development Jendouba
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The project aimed at increasing the forest area, combat erosion and the destruction of natural resources by the development and dissemination of adapted technical and participative methods. It strengthened the management capacities of village communi ...
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October 4, 2007
Best Practice: Networking for sustainable agriculture
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Since 1996, PELUM-Tanzania has conducted more than 65 national and regional training workshops on technical, social, management and policy subjects for farmer groups. Member organizations and smallholder farmers have increased their knowledge on sust ...
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October 4, 2007
Best Practice: Soil and water conservation on the slopes of Kilimanjaro
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The project promoted soil and water conservation measures and locally adapted production techniques to increase soil fertility, productivity and income. Farmers who have implemented the conservation techniques have seen many benefits. Their productiv ...
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October 4, 2007
Best Practice: Organic farming in Karagwe District
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To let small-scale farmers in Tanzania benefit from the growing markets for organic products, training courses in low-external-input sustainable agriculture were given to groups of farmers. Modules included soil fertility, integrated pest management, ...
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October 4, 2007
Best Practice: Drought tolerant maize
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Under the coordination of CYMMIT a regional research program was started involving partners from NARS from throughout the region. Critical traits for drought tolerance were identified and fed into breeding programs. Today, the first varieties with dr ...
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October 4, 2007
Best Practice: MUTARA - Support to Agriculture in Rwanda
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Activities were focused on irrigation infrastructure, agricultural trials, and establishing farmers in an irrigated perimeter of the valley. Emphasis then turned to improving the living conditions of the farmers through capacity building in irrigated ...
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October 4, 2007
Best Practice: Turning around bankrupt farms in Russia
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To develop, test and disseminate socially acceptable laws and procedures for revitalizing insolvent farms. The project conducted a rapid appraisal of farms’ financial performance, analyzed bottlenecks in the legal framework, and drafted a manual of p ...
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October 4, 2007
Best Practice: Irrigation Programme in the Southern Andes
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Aiming at an increase of the operating income of the peasants as a contribution to poverty reduction, and a sustainable use and management of the established irrigation infrastructure, the program supported the target group in maintaining and repairi ...
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