Copperbelt: Forests on Farms
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1 year ago by WeForest
Integrating climate-smart agriculture

The Copperbelt project’s new Dairy Expansion Scheme is aiming to tackle agriculture, the greatest driver of deforestation in the province. The scheme will train 620 smallholder farmers, organized into cooperatives, to transition to climate-smart agriculture to sustainably produce dairy feed and manage their rangelands, without being required to have a forest on their farm. The project will also support selected cooperatives to establish agroforestry nurseries, which will act as reliable and affordable sources of agroforestry seedlings for small-scale farmers while generating revenue for them and ensuring their financial sustainability in the long-term.