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Title:

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research- program 2024-2025

Agreement Number:

7465723 P014780001

Agreement Value:

$9,500,000.00

Agreement Date:

Feb 11, 2025 - Mar 31, 2025

Description:

The Biodiversity for Resilient Ecosystems in Agricultural Landscapes (B-REAL) project aims to conserve and restore biodiversity in intensively farmed, climate-stressed regions of Colombia, Kenya and Peru. The project integrates biodiversity practices into agriculture, involving women as producers and traditional knowledge holders in the co-design of intervention. It also promotes nutritious and underutilized local crops to improve farmers’ incomes. This funding is part of Canada’s commitment made at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in December 2022 in Montreal. It aligned with the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils, one of the Group of Seven (G7) Apulia Food Security Initiatives. Project activities include: (1) co-creating biodiversity interventions; (2) implementing technologies through demonstration plots, tree nurseries, community seed banks, and training programs; and (3) conducting gender-responsive market assessments and using market incentives for conservation.

Organization:

Global Affairs Canada

Expected Results:

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) conserved or sustainably managed 40,000 hectares of land and planted 100,000 native trees in south-west Colombia, the Kisumu and Vihiga counties of Kenya and the Ucayali region of Peru; (2) benefited 10,000 farmers and land managers (40% men and 60% women, young men and women, and Indigenous Peoples); and (3) conserved 30 threatened native species and enabled access to diverse genetic material for cultivation and restoration through 150 community tree nurseries and 6 community seed banks.

Location:

WASHINGTON, US 20433

Reference Number:

064-2024-2025-Q4-00104

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Business Number:

6000000000000

Recipient Type:

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Recipient's Legal Name:

CGIAR

Federal Riding Name:

Not Coded

Federal Riding Number:

Program:

Grants - Multilateral Programming

Program Purpose:

Subvention Programmation multilatérale