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SLU (Sustainable Land Use Programme)
Description
The SLU Programme Management and Support Unit is responsible to implement and further develop SDC’s largest programme – that of Sustainable Land Use. This aims at improving the livelihoods of poor and small farmers – particularly of women - through the promotion of agroforestry on private land. Two central elements of the approach are
(i) encouraging farmers’ organisations to take responsibility for their own development and
(ii) working with service organisations to improve the enabling environment in which small farmers operate.
Certain components of national concern are being taken up at the national level – of which three are of particular note:
(i) the establishment of a national system of multiplication and distribution of quality planting material of fruit, timber and allied species,
(ii) the establishment of a national system of knowledge management for agroforestry linking knowledge generators to knowledge users, and
(iii) the promotion of the medicinal plant sector.
These objectives are to be met through the implementation of the following three projects
- LEAF(commenced March 2004)
- SAAKTI (May 2004) and
- AFIP (September 2004).
Local partner: Bangladesh Agric. Research Institute, B. Forest Res. Inst., B. Ag. Res. Council, B. Agr. Univ., Department of Ag. Extension, Forest Dept, GTZ-SFADP, local NGOs, nursery associations, civil soc. org...
International partner: IUCN, International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), CARE, CAB International, South Asia Development Facility (SEDF), Swisscontact / KATALYST
Fact sheet
Type: Trust fund project
Start: 1999
End: 2010
Status: Current
Region: South Asia
Country: Bangladesh
Working domain: Natural Resource Management | Rural Economy | Local Governance and Civil Society
Key topic: Strengthening of associations and interest groups | Product and market development in agriculture and forestry | Sustainable agricultural and livestock production | Home gardens | Agricultural advisory/extension methods and strategies | Farm forestry | Participatory methods | Gender balanced development | System analysis | Poverty targeting
Funding source: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Staff
Project responsible: Alain Cuvelier
Responsible at Delegation/Representation: Alain Cuvelier
Responsible at Head Office: Philippe Vaneberg
Advisors, programme officers:
Contact
Address:
House 29, Road 35A, Gulshan 1212, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Phone: ++880 2 881 56 88; 882 76 33;882 92 08 Fax: none
E-Mail: icdhaka@citech-bd.com
Website: www.intercooperation-bd.org
Resp. for this entry: acuvelier
