The project objective is to improve sustainability of agriculture and forest land use management through the diffusion and adoption of low-carbon technologies with win-win benefits in land degradation, climate change, and biodiversity conservation and increase farm profitability and forest productivity. The project will achieve this objective by addressing three barriers:

Barrier #1: Minimal experience among key government and civil society stakeholders in developing and implementing sustainable land management and forest management practices;

Barrier #2: Famers under-exposed to innovative low carbon technologies for farming and farm waste management; and

Barrier #3: Inadequate enabling environment (legal, regulatory and institutional framework) and capacity for sustainable land management. The project will address these barriers through interventions structured under the following three interlinked components.

 Project Components and Outcomes

Component 1: Rehabilitation of Degraded Forest and Rangeland; Outcome 1: Degraded forest and rangelands rehabilitated and management practices improved.

 Component 2: Climate-Smart Agriculture; Outcome 2. Climate-smart agriculture techniques applied across productive landscapes

 Component 3: Enhanced enabling environment for sustainable land management; Outcome 3: Enhanced enabling environment for sustainable land management

 The interventions will result in; (i) 500 farm and/or ranch households adopting new practices that support biodiversity conservation, sustainable land management (SLM) and climate change mitigation; (ii) 1250 FFS members (750 males and 500 females); (iii) Capacity strengthening to enhance cross-sector enabling environment for integrated landscape management; (iv) Forest policy enhancement; (v) Agriculture policy enhancement; (vi) 1 pilot site level policy framework operationalized to integrate SLM, biodiversity and CC based land use planning across productive landscapes; and (vii) 1 national monitoring program for CC, BC and SLM.   For more information click here