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Elim project won the overall category for the best community LandCare project in South Africa. Environmentally; Area wide planning is well exercised at the community. They clear alien plants and Veld camps have been demarcated. The area has been designated the special management areas for game reserve. There is proper land use system for dams, water purification. They encourage all land users to use natural resources sustainably.
Success Stories
Elim Landcare Project, South Africa
Sekhusele Landcare Project, South Africa
Sekhusele won the first price on the same category during the Fourth Biennial LandCare Conference held on July 2009. Environmentally, the project does rehabilitation of the degraded land by constructing gabions, planting vertiver grass, fencing of camps, and rotational grazing. They sell livestock to generate income and also help in culling down livestock which improves the grazing capacity of the land.
INNOVATION PLATFORMS
Towards Integrated Agricultural Research for Development through innovation platforms in Lake Kivu
Agricultural productivity has stagnated due to reasons including inadequate returns from investment in agricultural research and development efforts. Although agricultural research has generated several kinds of technology with high potential, the impact of the technology on farmers’ productivity, livelihood quality of life has not matched its potential.
ENTRY POINT APPROACH
Use of high value vegetable production as an Entry point Lushoto, Tanzania
Lushoto District is located in the West Usambara Mountains of northeastern Tanzania. The district is home to the Wasambaa and small numbers of Wapare and migrants from other areas of Tanzania. The pilot watershed covers an area of 6006 hectares; it spans 6 villages and a population of 13,163 in the Baga and Bumbuli Wards.
ENTRY POINT APPROACH
Controlling Run-off in Kabale and Kapchorwa by use of Lanscape level entry points in Kabale and Kapchorwa Uganda
The Kabale benchmark site is located in Kigezi highlands of southwestern Uganda, home to the Bakiga ethnic group. The area is characterized by high population densities, steep cultivated slopes, fragmented landholdings, land shortages and adequate rainfall. This site is also a mixed crop-livestock system with a relatively small livestock component.