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Description
This project seeks to promote gender equality and the economic empowerment of rural women and men by increasing the adaptive capacities of poor and vulnerable rural populations to climate change, including landless, unemployed, under or seasonally employed individuals, in the Aswan, Beheira and Kafr El Sheikh Governorates of Egypt. The project seeks to develop and implement nature-based and climate-resilient agricultural practices that promote the sustainable use of natural resources, increase agricultural productivity, and improve livelihoods and food security. Project activities include: (1) providing need-based environment and agriculture training to smallholder famers and stakeholders; (2) providing micro- and small- entrepreneurs with technical and financial services; and (3) strengthening the connectivity of agricultural value chain; and 4) advocating for smallholder food production at the municipal, governorate and national level.
The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) enhanced adoption of gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture and food system solutions for nature-positive climate change adaptation by smallholder farming communities with food security and livelihood co-benefits; and (2) enhanced adoption of gender-responsive nature-based solutions for enhancing and protecting biodiversity by smallholder farming communities with climate change adaptation and mitigation co-benefits. This project seeks to benefit over 8,000 smallholder farmers and 144 locally-based organizations, including government ministries, academic institutions and local organizations.
Partner profile FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
