Projects
| Title | Support to the rehabilitation and extension of the Nouakchott green belt (Mauritania) |
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| Introduction | Since late 1960s Mauritania has been severely affected by repeated periods of drought. Desertification control has always been a national priority and a central concern of successive governments. The main effect of desertification in Mauritania has been a reduction in the amount of arable land, grazing land, forests and water resources. Given the extent of the phenomenon, Mauritania has expressed a firm political will and commitment to combat this scourge. |
| Project Code | GCP/MAU/022/BEL |
| Title | Acacia Operation Project: support to food security, poverty alleviation and soil degradation control in the gums and resins producer countries |
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| Introduction | Sahelian countries have been severely affected by drought and desertification with a significant shift southward of isohyets in the area of production of gum Arabic. Since the 70’s all countries involved in the Acacia Operation project have experienced significant worsening of climatic conditions, which adversely impacted on important production systems such as cattle-breeding, agriculture and woodlands. |
| Start date | 30/11/2003 |
| End date | 30/06/2010 |
| Title | Deploying a humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach |
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| Introduction | Drylands are currently home to about 25 percent of the global population, contain 50 percent of the world’s livestock, 27 percent of the world’s forests(FAO, 2019), store 30 percent of the world’s soil organic carbon, and supply about 60 percent of the world’s food production (IUCN 2008). |
| Title | Sustainable land management and climate-friendly agriculture |
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| Introduction | The project objective is to improve sustainability of agriculture and forests land use management through 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. |
| Start date | 01/10/2014 |
| End date | 30/10/2019 |
| Project Code | GCP/TUR/055/GFF |
| Title | Rehabilitation of forest landscapes and degraded land with particular attention to saline soils and areas prone to wind erosion in the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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| Introduction | More than 70 percent of land and forests in Iran are in hyper-arid, arid, semi-arid and sub-humid zones. The extreme scarcity of water and harsh living conditions result in a vicious cycle of poverty and food insecurity, whereby rural dwellers are compelled to over-exploit their fragile resources to provide for their basic needs. |
| Start date | 30/11/2011 |
| End date | 30/11/2016 |
| Budget | 11,007,134 |
| Title | GEF7 - Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program on Dryland Sustainable Landscapes |
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| Introduction | With USD 104 million funding under the Global Environment Facility (GEF) -7 funding circle, along with over 800 million co-financing, the Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program on Dryland Sustainable Landscapes aims to move the needle on Global Environmental Benefits (GEBs), and is assisting 11 countries across Africa and Asia. |
| Title | Action Against Desertification |
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| Introduction | Action Against Desertification is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) to promote sustainable land management and restore drylands and degraded lands in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, implemented by FAO and partners with funding from the European Union in the framework of the 10th European Development Fund (EDF). |