Browsing by Author "GEF"

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    Bufumira Islands Alternative Energy Demonstration Project
    Bufumira Islands Development Association (BIDA) (2007-07-16)
    Overview: This project demonstrates the use of wind and solar energy sources to recharge batteries and meet lighting and other power needs within homes. A hybrid wind/solar power station has been built, and public awareness campaigns about proper battery maintenance and disposal have been conducted.
  • Ecomarkets Project for Costa Rica
    Costa Rican Ministry of Environment and Energy (2007-02-15)
    The Costa Rican Government, the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility developed a partnership to improve sustainable forest management practices on privately owned small parcels of land. It will conserve biodiversity, improve water quality irrigation, and add to carbon sequestration. Approximately US$49 million in loans from the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility are available for the project.
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    El Salvador environmental services project
    GEF; The World Bank (2007-02-16)
    Pilot project that will attempt to shift current land uses to those which promote conservation and sustainability by "facilitating the interaction between the users of environmental services (buyers) and the producers of such goods." This will be done in a payment for environmental services framework for agroforestry, forest management and conservation, reforestation, afforestation, and sustainable agricultural production practices. In addition, the project will work to strengthen the support for environmental service markets.
  • The Mabira Forest Reserve Eco-tourism Project
    National Forest Authority; GEF (2007-07-20)
    This is an ecotourism project based in the Ugandan Mabira forest. It was started by the National Forest Authority (NFA) and revenue and activities are shared between the NFA and local communities. The original project was started in 1996, with an additional ecotourism grant issued by the GEF in 2005 to further ecotourism in the area as well as conservation education activities.
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    The Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park/La Tondeña Distillery Experience
    La Tondeña Distillery (2007-08-14)
    The Kanla-on Spring Water Plant (KSWP) operated by La Tondeña Distillery, Inc., draws its water supply from within the boundaries of the Mt. Kanla-on Natural Park. As a result of the company's dependence on the upstream forested watershed they have undertaken activities to support farmers with sustainable agroforestry. The project has resulted in approximately 100 thousand fruit trees being planted, the creation of two local nurseries, several social development projects, and technical training for 51 farmers.
  • Preserving natural spring water through cultivating local varieties plants
    GEF (2007-08-08)
    In Bandung, West Java, almost half of the 23 springs are vanishing because of water pollution as well as excessive draining and exploitation. Decrease of water biodiversity, low quality of water and high water pollution primarily caused by farming chemicals and domestic waste indicate that the deteriorating quality of water is already at an alarming stage. On the other hand, there is insufficient information on how to use and manage the water resources.
  • Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Approaches to Ecosystem Management Project
    CIPAV (Centre For Research on Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems); CATIE (Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza); NITLAPAN (2007-02-16)
    The Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Approaches to Ecosystem Management Project introduces the payment for environmental services approach to silvopastoral farmers in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. The objectives of the project are to "demonstrate and measure a) the effects the introduction of payment incentives for environmental services to farmers on their adoption of integrated silvopastoral farming systems in degraded pasture lands; and b) the resulting improvements in eco-systems functioning, global environmental benefits, and local socio-economic gains resulting from the provision of said services." This will be done by strengthening local development organizations, monitoring ecological services and economic benefits, creating a services payment system, and supporting policy formulation.