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› 03-B-07 - Strategy for Development of a Technological Package for Organic Pineapple in Costa Rica and Benin (Benin-Costa Rica) | Costa Rica

The project consists of the generation and promotion of the use of small producers of a technological package for organic pineapple production adapted to Costa Rican and Benin conditions. The technological package that the project expect to develop has a great potential in order to avoid the problems of inadequate soil use, excessive application of agrochemicals and other social and environmental problems that actually are affecting the conventional pineapple crop production.

The aim of the project is to improve state of environment through establishing an integrated and sustainable solid waste management system and raising awareness of the people in both rural and urban area of Bhutan and in the Pavas district of the San Jose Municipality, Costa Rica with the participation of the stakeholders.

The project will analyze the relationships between national parks and economic activities and communities in Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica, through a methodological approach created in Costa Rica two years ago. This methodology will be adapted to Benin and Bhutan with the support from the Costa Rican Team.

The central of this Project is to implement specific strategies of sustainable tourism development that allow a better insertion of local populations in tourism development. Comparably, local, managerial and academic actors will be looked for who can learn one from another from the execution experiences of the project.

This project tries to respond to three objectives of the Millennium development goals: to eradicate the extreme poverty where the indigenous populations are located and particularly the women; to promote gender equality and women empowerment; and, to guarantee the environmental sustainability. Within the South-south Cooperation Program it is centered in two areas: sustainable productive development and chains of production, and gender equality.

This projects aim is to build capacities in Biodiversity Information Management in the three countries participating. This includes the sharing of mutual benefits, a close collaboration between the management and implementing companies through shared trainings, technical assistance and the exchange of information and experiences.

The overall goal of the project envisaged by the National Mushroom Center (NMC) in Bhutan and the National Biodiversity Biodiversity (INBio) in Costa Rica and the Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi in Bénin (FSA/UAC) in Bénin. The three organizations will work in close collaboration to enhance the institutional capacity to offer new products and services to society as part of their efforts towards the conservation and sustainable utilization of biological resources.

The aim of this project is to contribute with the competitiveness of the farming chains production, developing local capacities on knowledge management for the technological interchange, between Costa Rica and Bhutan.

This project aims to strengthen the capacity and influence the tour operator associations and members in Bhutan and Costa Rica to improve market linkages with the United States and Western Europe in a sustainable way. These market linkages will be improved by developing institutional linkages, destination marketing and by establishing a social, environmental, and economic sustainable base for the private sector.

The current project aims the integral professional insertion of young girls not in school especially, in a certain measure, women in the beneficiary localities. It also aim to create conditions of a real participation of populations by giving them subsequent skills likely to assure themselves to handle their development and consequently the development of their locality of existence, is a peculiar and fundamental ambition of this project.

This project will bring a local response to the various current problems observed in the surroundings and will facilitate the development of similar initiatives along the Gbaga channel for the resolution of the great evils which undermine the conservation of the resources in the environment. The project has as a general objective to contribute to the conservation of the resources of mangrove through the participation of the communities in the base and the reduction of poverty.

This project aims at contributing to the setting of a sustainable dynamic of supply of organic and fair cotton fibre and other products in quantity and quality according to the market demand and requirements on a transparent and fair partnerships basis.

The project aims at conducting a public debate at a local, national and inter-partners level on past experiences and their lessons concerning opportunities to be tapped as well as institutions and laws to be developed for biodiversity conservation.

The project aims to contribute to the improvement and the safeguard of the biodiversity and the poverty reduction in Mono Couffo region through the promotion of two forest species of value that is the Iroko and the Samba in villagers lands and the forests consecrated in view of their contribution to the present and future need satisfaction in products and forest services of the population and the poverty reduction by the development of the beekeeping and the rabbit raising.

The purpose of this project is to use ecotourism as a tool of development in the peripheral zones of the Lama forest for conservation of the biological heritage and cultural by setting a tourism centre animated by local communities. With the sustainable development approach, by its economical role, ecotourism is supposed to help reduce threats to biological diversity, which explains the domain of chosen intervention.

Phobjikha valley as a model community-based sustainable tourism destination contributes to conservation of the natural environment, the protection of the crane habitat, conservation of culture, and at the same time contributes to socio-economic benefits for communities in the valley.

The aim of this project is the conservation of the natural environment and existing pockets of wilderness, protection of the habitat of endangered wildlife and increase in economic benefits for the communities nearby. Replicate program to other eco-zones.

The purpose of this project is the prevention of Biodiversity loss due to adverse effects of Invasive Alien Plants. This is when Invasive Alien Plants are transplanted outside their original range, they become free of natural controls like diseases, predators, parasites or climates, which allow them to out-compete and eventually replace more sensitive native species. Not only do they compete with the native for resources, but they also cause loss of habitat and food for wildlife, alter soil structure and chemistry, alter fire regimes and plant succession, harbor plant pathogens and some are capable of hybridizing with native plants, resulting in unnatural changes to a plant’s genetic makeup.

The purpose of this project is to develop a holistic national mushroom program integrating all aspects of mushroom development, both for collection of wild edible species and cultivated species, with an aim to contribute to poverty alleviation goals while giving attention to the ecology, environment, gender and other social-economic concerns.

This project aims at contributing to the improvement of the socio-economic and productive small pineapple producers by improving the technology for the production of organic pineapple in Benin and the agro-processing organic and Fair Trade yellow pineapple in Costa Rica

This project aims to contribute to small farmers’ sustainability and to the maintenance of biodiversity by strengthening the value chain of alternative and traditional agriculture and agro-industrial products

The project aims the integral socio-professional and technical insertion of young people, specially girls in social risk and poverty conditions, to the work force and productive chain of each country, in Allada, Benin and Hogar Calasanz de San Jose, Costa Rica

This project aims to support and introduce sustainable tourism product development and infrastructure through community participation for income generation and develop guidelines for effective management

The project aims to enhance energy security and poverty alleviation through public-private partnerships in Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica

Organic certification, product development and marketing of wild collected and cultivated medicinal and aromatic plants in Bhutan and Costa Rica are proposed under the project over a two years period. The proposed product in Bhutan is lemon grass soap made from organic certified lemon grass oil from Bepam Lemon Grass Management area and the Phuensum Community Forestry area in Eastern Bhutan. In Costa Rica, a organic herbal soap is proposed to be developed from organic certified herbs cultivated in San Luis by ASOMAG. In developing these products selected farmers from Bhutan and Costa Rica will carry out an exchange study tour to learn and share experience oon efficient economic viability for the new products are a key component of the project. This is aimed to ensuring long term income and employment benefits for the farmer groups involved in supplying and processing the raw materials for the products.

The project aims to enhance a sustainable income activity for the under privileged group of the society in Bhutan and Costa Rica by building a common capacity for sustainable handcrafts production and commercialization using the collective expertise and funding from the Programme for South-South Cooperation

There is great potential in Benin and Bhutan to preserve, protect and promote the unique song and musical traditions of the two countries. More importantly, by doing this, the tourism sector in the two countries will reap tremendous benefits by making the cultural tourism services and products more diverse, vibrant and sustainable. The ultimate objective of the project is to preserve and propagate the folk songs, dances and music tradition of Bhutan and the choir music of Benin as viable and vibrant tourism products in the two countries.

The project aims to create and transfer the environmental and human standard to women’s productive enterprises in Costa Rica and Benin in order to contribute to its sustainability.

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the sustainable management and the conservation of biological resources of mangrove and lagoon ecosystems through the participation of local communities and the reduction of poverty in Benin and Costa Rica

It aims to develop a program integrating all aspects of mushrooms processing and marketing, for cultivated species with Cerro de la Muerte groups, with an aim to contribute to poverty alleviation goals while giving attention to the ecology, environment, gender and other social-economic concerns

The project aims to contribute to improvement and safeguard of the biodiversity through development and sustainable management of natural forest resources and the iguana farm of Kekoldi community in Costa Rica and through the promotion of Iroko and Samba silviculture in Mono Couffo region in Benin and identifying and implementing alternative income generating activities taking advantage of natural resources available, beekeeping and rabbit breeding

The overall objective of this South-South Cooperation program is use sustainable ecotourism as a tool for economic development and habitat conservation of tropical forests both in Benin and Costa Rica to reduce poverty, promote gender equality and protect natural resources. These projects will contribute to a more sustainable tourism sector in Benin and Costa Rica: increasing benefits to rural communities; mitigating negative side-effects in the field of culture erosion and deterioration of natural resources; and promoting stronger

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