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Climate Resilient Pasture and Livestock Management in Zhangeldy Village
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Project details
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Program:
Implementing Agency:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, Zhuldyz - ZhankelSummary:
Zhangely is a typical village in the South Kazakhstan Oblast, the most densely populated in the country. Climate is extremely continental and dry, with long winters and hot summers. During the Soviet era, the village specialized in cotton production, though now the village is reliant on cattle production on soils degraded from years of monocrop agricultural production. Long-term climate change projections for Kazakhstan and Central Asia include increasing temperatures, especially in winter, as well as increasing levels of evapotranspiration in summer.
Project Components:
The UNDP CBA project will pilot a new pasture management systems designed to be sustainable in the face of climate change, including pasture demarcation and rotation, and introduction of better-adapted cattle breeds. The project will also conduct assessments to determine sustainable pasture management strategies incorporating climate change factors, and build the capacity of community and local government to carry out the new practices.
Expected Outputs:
The outputs include: 1.) Division of community pastures into fenced zones and prepared for grazing rotation; 2.) Development of waterpoints and associated facilities for enclosed pastures (electricity, shelters); 3.) Determination of environmentally permissible loads for the enclosed pasture in line with the climate change projections; 4.) Piloting the new grazing strategy with the local community; 5.) Reduction of vulnerability of the local members to the climate change risks by replacing the low-productivity cattle by area-specific high-productivity breeds; 6.) Development of local communities' capacity of integrating climate-related risks into pasture management through education and training; 7.) Publication of a booklet; and 8.) dissemination of project experiences in the region for replication by other communities.
Contacts:
Mr. Charles Nyandiga, Global Project Coordinator UNDP Environmental and Energy Group (646) 781 4390 Charles.Nyandiga@undp.org
Ms. Anna Lisa Jose, CBA Programme Associate, UNDP Environmental and Energy Group (646) 781 4402 annalisa.jose@undpaffiliates.org
Ms. Katerina Yushenko,National Coordinator UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme +7 3272 582646 / 582643 Katerina.Yushenko@undp.org
Mr. Nick Remple, Senior Technical Advisor, UNDP Environmental and Energy Group,
Project Status:
Completed on September 2011Primary Beneficiaries:
Local communities of Zhangeldy Village
Climate Change, Hydro-Conflicts and Human Security - CLICO
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
United Nations University-EHS, European CommissionSummary:
CLICO is a three year research project funded by the European Commission.
Expected Outputs:
CLICO pursues the following two objectives:
- To understand and model the relationships between hydro-climatic hazards, climate change vulnerability, human security and conflict, on the basis of theoretically-informed, comparative empirical research.
- To map international and national policies for security and adaptation in water resources and hazard management, and develop a policy model for security against hydro-climatic hazards (“hydro-security”) in the region, applicable to the UN, EU and national states.
Contacts:
Lars Wirkus
Research Associate
Tel.: + 49-228-815-0209
e-mail: wirkus@ehs.unu.eduProject Status:
Under Implementation (time span: Jan 2010 - Dec 2012)
