The development objective of Climate Smart Staple Crop Production for China is to demonstrate climate smart and sustainable staple crop production in Huaiyuan County of Anhui Province and Yexian County of Henan Province.
... See More + This restructuring requires the following changes: a) extension of the closing date from March 31, 2020 to September 30, 2020; and b) reduce funds for sub-grants and subsidies in category (1), and increase funds for goods and non-consulting and consulting services in category (2).
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Ratings of Strengthening Capacity on Good Environmental Practices in Commercial Reforestation in the Magdalena Bajo Seco CDM Project for Colombia were as follows: outcome was satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial.
... See More + Some of the lessons learned include: (i) support for the implementation of improved environmental management practices through this type of project is not only important, but, based on its experience, is welcomed and integrated by farmers and their communities; (ii) the environmental good practices manual and guidance sheets developed by this project be laminated and more widely disseminated so that they become readily available to all participating technicians and landowners, as well as others who may be interested; (iii) a regional mutual aid program for combatting forest fires be established in the project areas; (iv) it is necessary to reinforce training in disease, pest, and first aid management; and (v) funds should be sought to enable application of the planned additional survey of the socio-economic and environmental benefits perceived by the participating farmers as part of a more comprehensive assessment of project outcomes.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR00004693 MAR 14, 2019
The objective of the Sustainable Low-Carbon Development in Orinoquia Region Project for Colombia is to improve enabling conditions for sustainable and low-carbon landscape planning and management in project targeted areas.
... See More + To overcome the legal issue related to the incorporation of grant resources into the national budget, a modification in the project implementation arrangements has been proposed by the Recipient and agreed by all parties. This modification implies the inclusion of a fiduciary agent (FIDUAGRARIA) that will be responsible for receiving and administrating the grant funds, thereby enabling the flow of funds (disbursements) and thus the activities planned by each agency to commence. In addition, all parties agree that the inclusion of the fiduciary agent will increase efficiency in the management and execution of grant resources for the following reasons: (i) it will guarantee a more expedite execution of grant funds for activities defined by the four co-implementing entities, and (ii) this modality does not require incorporation of grant resources into the national budget and therefore does not fall under the budget annuities, allowing for a longer-term planning of activities beyond the 12 month budget period. While MADR remains the lead recipient and implementing agency, this revision will result in changes to the Grant Agreement, requiring a level-two project restructuring. An official letter by MADR requesting the restructuring, was received by the Bank on July 4, 2018.
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This paper uses a choice experiment conducted in Nepal during 2013 to estimate household-level willingness to participate in a village-level program under the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation initiative requiring reductions in fuelwood collection, as a function of the price paid per unit of avoided carbon dioxide emissions.
... See More + The analysis examines incentives to participate both in villages having formal community forest management, the core institution for implementing Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, and villages having only informal forest user groups. Contrary to previous findings in the literature about participation incentives, but in keeping with other recent studies of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation pilots in Nepal, this study finds that relatively little emission reduction would take place at prices of $1.00 to $5.00 per ton of avoided carbon emissions. Formal community forests will almost certainly be the core institution within which Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation is implemented in Nepal and likely other countries. The study finds that average and median values of payment required for agreement to reduce fuelwood collection are substantially larger for formal forest user groups than in informal communities. This reflects that formal groups likely already have fuelwood collection restrictions in place, whereas informal groups may de facto permit open access extraction. The analysis also suggests that households that are part of informal groups react to Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation very differently than households that are formal group members. Broadly speaking, "underprivileged" formal group member households, such as those who are landless, female-headed, and poor, appear to be warier of fuelwood collection restrictions and thus require higher payments than average respondents. This difference does not appear to carry over to informal group members.
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Policy Research Working Paper WPS8648 NOV 19, 2018
Although efforts at Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) are viewed as instrumental in reducing vulnerability to climate change, their impact has rarely been quantified.
... See More + Combining data on the timing and intensity of SWC interventions in select Ethiopian watersheds from 2009 to 2016 with a pixel-level panel of vegetative cover and soil moisture data derived from satellite imagery, makes it possible to assess the biophysical impacts of such measures using a difference-in-differences specification. Results point towards significant effects overall that vary by season. Tree planting and other SWC activities are more effective on degraded than on cultivated land. The results are consistent with before-after regressions for daily sediment load and stream flows in a subset of micro-watersheds. It thus appears that satellite imagery can improve the design and near-real-time monitoring of sustainable land management interventions for both watersheds and landscape.
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