Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services in Agrarian Landscapes
A growing world population and changing consumer habits are increasing the global demand for food and renewable raw materials. This is why land use is being practised much too intensively in the partner countries – and soil fertility and biodiversity, for example, are suffering negative consequences as a result. In the partner countries of India, Kenya and Tajikistan, the project strengthened the capacities to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. Appropriate land use approaches were evaluated and implemented in an exemplary manner. The experience gained formed the foundation for the further development of the institutional framework at national and (especially in India) regional level. The results and experiences from the project were shared in a supra-regional dialogue and the resulting recommendations were disseminated at international levels.
- Countries
- India, Kenya, Tajikistan
- IKI funding
- 4,850,000.00 €
- Duration
- 12/2016 till 11/2022
- Status
- completed
- Implementing organisation
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
- Political Partner
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- Ministry for Development of North Eastern Region - India
- Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries - Kenya
- Ministry of Agriculture - Tajikistan
- Implementing Partner
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- Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V.
State of implementation/results
- Project completed.
- In India and Kenya, due to the lockdown, digital media was used for project participation in events and collaboration with partners.
- Five community-based seed banks have been established and were used in Tajikistan.
- A training concept for the land use approach with adapted rainfed crops has been developed.
- Three publications of "good practices" (Panorama Solutions) were published in India as part of a "write shop".
- In India, a online seminar on agroecology attracted public interest and was documented in local newspapers (shillongtoday.com/…; highlandpost.com/…)
- Online training materials for further "training of trainers" have been developed.
- In the meantime, 25 solutions were published on the PANORAMA platform from the project context.
- In Tajikistan, a catalogue for biodiversity-friendly land use practices was published. The evaluation of the Farmer Field Schools (FFS) with 685 farmers (57 percent women) had showed that the share of using project-supported land use techniques increased from 31 to 68 percent.
Latest Update:
12/2024
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