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Title:

Expanding Agricultural Climate Resilience

Agreement Number:

7464896 P011638001

Agreement Value:

$10,000,000.00

Agreement Date:

Mar 4, 2025 - Jun 30, 2028

Description:

This project aims to enhance the resilience of communities to respond to worsening climate conditions that disrupt agricultural production and food systems in South Sudan. It seeks to work with women and men smallholder farmers to diversify their agricultural sources of income through climate-resilient techniques and assets. The project also aims to empower women to manage community-based tree nurseries and seed banks and access new opportunities in fishing, fruit farming, beekeeping and small livestock. Project activities include: (1) building the capacity of women and men smallholder farmers and fisherfolks on new, climate-resilient skills. This covers agricultural techniques, harvesting and storing, animal husbandry, agroforestry, fish processing and handling, and maintaining crop biomass for livestock consumption; (2) providing inputs, such as drought resistant crop variants, fishing equipment and gear, and small livestock; (3) establishing disaster-risk management committees to develop flood and drought response plans; and (4) improving early extreme weather warning systems, including establishing 3 automated weather stations across the targeted areas. This project is expected to directly reach 8,000 households (60% women), and 50,000 people indirectly. It focuses on communities in 3 of the country’s 10 states, namely Eastern Equatoria, Jonglei, and Unity, which are the most vulnerable to climate change and affected by local conflict.

Organization:

Global Affairs Canada

Expected Results:

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) Providing climate resilient seed varieties to 3,000 households (1800 women and 1200 men); (2) procuring fishing gear and equipment to 2,000 households (1000 women and 1000 men) to diversify livelihood and income generating activities during flooding season; (3) Provide small ruminants-based Livelihood Diversification to 1000 households (500 women and 500 men); (4) Establishing income-generating activities such as beekeeping and fruit farms for 500 households (300 women and 200 men); (5) Training of community-based disaster risk management committees for 175 households (90 women and 80 men); (6) Disseminate climate information services through radio programs to 500 households (300 women and 200 men).

Location:

ROME, IT 00100

Reference Number:

064-2024-2025-Q4-00133

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Business Number:

3200000000000

Recipient Type:

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Recipient's Legal Name:

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Federal Riding Name:

Not Coded

Federal Riding Number:

Program:

Grants - Multilateral Programming

Program Purpose:

Subvention Programmation multilatérale