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sustainable pasture management
Adapting pastoral and agricultural practices to the realities of climate change
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-12-11 03:03
Summary:
The CBA project, “Adapting pastoral and agricultural practices to the realities of climate change”, focuses on the village of Rombou in the Maradi region of Niger.
Adaptation Experience:
As a result of changes in the local climate, communities report a marked decrease in the presence of “Doum,” a type of palm tree once common in the region. Increasingly frequent droughts have lowered the water tables upon which this native species depends. Lower water tables have also negatively impacted farmers and pastoralists who depend on wells fed by ground water to water their livestock and crops.
Results and Learning:
Degraded soils can be regenerated though natural fertilization techniques, including planting resilient trees, such as native acacias. The acacia is a type of hardy tree that survives in very arid environments, such as the Sahel, and helps protect against soil erosion.
Sustainability:
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Replication:
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Development of sustainable agricultural techniques for adapting to climate change in three villages in the municipality of Roumbou, Department of Dakoro
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Project details
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Program:
Implementing Agency:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
CBOs, Roumbou Municipality, ASB Germany (Arbeiter Samariter Bund); Care InternationalSummary:
The project aims to work with three villages of agropastoralists in Niger’s Sahel zone. Together, the three villages number approximately 1,600 people. The village is faced with high levels of poverty and structural food insecurity, which is exacerbated by soil degradation, dune mobilization and deforestation. Increasing levels of poverty have led local people to seek livelihoods by selling crop residues and wood cut from the Tarka valley – exacerbating soil degradation and thereby exacerbating poverty.
Project Components:
By restoring land (co-financing) and building capacity to sustainably farm it in a climate-resilient manner, the project will decrease the climate change threat facing land resources in the focal region. In response, the UNDP CBA project will build the capacity of the community to engage in livelihood practices that will contribute to the reduction of climate change-driven soil erosion pressures. Along with co-financing, measures will be piloted to restore degraded land by 25 hectares of degraded land restored, including 5 hectares of dunes. In addition, community members will be trained to implement and monitor land reclamation practices. Solely, the CBA project will fund activities to reduce deforestation and be more sustainable in the face of long-term climate change pressures by decreasing sustainable exploitation of natural ecosystems and extensive agricultural practices replaced with intensive practices.
Expected Outputs:
Solely, the CBA project will fund activities to reduce deforestation and be more sustainable in the face of long-term climate change pressures by decreasing sustainable exploitation of natural ecosystems and extensive agricultural practices replaced with intensive practices. This will be achieved by instituting a community-managed bank of agricultural inputs, by a demonstration of quick-maturing seeds, by training 15 community-level “brigadiers” to disseminate identified best practices in climate resilient agriculture locally, and by providing agricultural implements to the most vulnerable households (less than 10 households, who would otherwise be forced to subsist on clime-stressed ecosystems). Lastly, lessons learned from project implementation will be integrated into local-level planning.
Contacts:
CBA Project Management Unit
Email: cba@undp.org
304 East 45th St.
9th Floor New York
NY 10019
Tel: (212) 906-5006Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Technical Advisor, BDP/EEG
Email: pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.org
Tel: +1 (212) 906 6843Mr. Katiella Mai Moussa
National Coordinator
UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme- Niger
Tel: (227) 96963311
Email:katiella.mai.moussa@undp.orgProject Status:
Under Implementation (Expected completion: March 2010)Primary Beneficiaries:
Residents within the Tarka Valley ecosystem
Adaptation of Pastoral Cattle Farming of Lepsy Local Community to the Climate Change
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Project details
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Program:
Implementing Agency:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, Farmer of Kazakhstan Foundation, ARAI Youth Center NGO; Akim and Lepsy Forestry Management DepartmentsSummary:
Background
Project Components:
The UNDP CBA project is directed on the prevention of adverse consequences of climate change at the sand pasture ecosystems through:
- 1.) the restoration of the traditional pastoral management as the method to adapt to climate change; and
- 2.)the capacity-building of the local community to adapt to climate change.
Expected Outputs:
Outputs include: 1.) the repair of seven (7) waterpoints in the medium distance pastures, using the traditional Kazakh technique "Asar'; 2.) implementation of remote-grazing practices to reduce near-village overgrazing and rotation of seasonal pasture observed; 3.) improved access of the community to watering sites and forage resources; 3.) strengthening capacity of the community on addressing projected climate change risks through training and education; 4.) reduction of climate change pressures on decreasingly resilient waterpoints; 5.) Improvement of pasture management practices by taking climate change factors into account; 6.) dissemination of lessons learned from project implementation to government policy and global learning.
Contacts:
CBA Project Management Unit:
Charles Nyandiga at charles.nyandiga@undp.org
Anna Lisa Jose at annalisa.jose@undpaffiliates.org
220 East 42nd St, 21st Floor
NY, NY 10017
646-781-4402- Ms. Katerina Yushenko
- National Coordinator UNDP Small Grants Programme
- 7-3272 582646 / 582643
- katerina.yushenko@undp.org
Project Status:
Completed; September 2011Primary Beneficiaries:
Farmer of Kazakhstan Foundation for the local community of Lepsy
Mongolia Livestock Sector Adaptation Project
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Project details
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Implementing Agency:
IFADSummary:
Summary
To increase the resilience of Mongolian livestock system to changing climatic conditions by strengthening the adaptive capacity of the livestock system as well as the capacity of herders' groups to cope with climate change impact.
Background
Project Components:
- 1. Increasing the climate change adaptive capacity of the Mongolian pastoral system
- 2. Strengthening of the capacity of RMMCs and raising awareness on climate change impacts in rural communities
- 3. Improved rural risk management system
- 4. Project management
Expected Outputs:
- 1. A. Up to 5,000 ha of degraded pasture restored in demonstration sites, including increased vegetation cover with different varieties of perennials that are tolerant to drought B. Traditional pasture/grazing management techniques and indigenous practices captured and disseminated where appropriate through RMMCs C. Innovative water harvesting techniques introduced in 400 ha D. 20 mobile solar water units tested
- 2. A. Natural resource map updated to include climate induced variations B. 204 RMMCs and 600 herders groups trained and enabled to implement autonomously adaptation measures C. Exchange network established
- 3. A. Natural resource map updated to include climate induced variations B. 204 RMMCs and 600 herders groups trained and enabled to implement autonomously adaptation measures C. Exchange network established
Contacts:
- Mr. Jesús Quintana Programme Officer GECC
- Programme Management Department IFAD
- Tel.: +39 06 5459 2210
- Email: j.quintana@ifad.org
Project Status:
Council Approved
