GL’s programming strives to go project thinking as this is veiwed to be unsustainable and unfulfilling but rather programmes thinking (longterm). GL is currently implementing projects around natural resource management (i.e. beekeeping) and climate smart agriculture and agribusiness develoment through Farmer Market Schools (FMS); youth and women empowermen via green business development; value chain and organic farming commercialization and organic farming (i.e. garlic, ginger, moringa tree) products respectively
In a recent world where the climatic change and its effects have put so much negative impacts on the rural vulnerable groups, and hence our focus on green business. Green business is an enterprise that has minimal negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy—a business that strives to meet the triple bottom line.
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Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a system of integrated management of soil, water and biological resources combined with external inputs. As a concept of sustainable agricultural production, it is promoted by several organizations including GL. CA aims to achieve sustainable and profitable agriculture through the application of three principles: minimal soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotation. It is a way to combine profitable agricultural production with environmental concerns and sustainability and it has been proven to work in a variety of agroecological zones and farming systems
DetailsCommunity Self-Help Group are self-governed, peer controlled, informal group of people with same socio-economic background and having a desire to collectively perform common purposes. Here poor people voluntarily come together to save whatever amount they can save conveniently out of their earnings, to mutually agree to contribute to a common fund and to lend to the members for meeting their productive and emergent needs.
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