Project profile — Biodiversity for Resilient Agricultural Ecosystems Landscapes (BREAL)

• Colombia (21.00%)
• Kenya (49.00%)
• Peru (30.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (12.00%)
• Agricultural land resources:
Agricultural land resources (31130) (6.00%)
Agricultural services (31191) (3.00%)
• General Environmental Protection: Environmental policy and administrative management (41010) (79.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Biodiversity (principal objective)

The Biodiversity for Resilient Ecosystems in Agricultural Landscapes (B-REAL) project aims to conserve and restore biodiversity in intensively farmed, climate-stressed regions of Colombia, Kenya and Peru. The project integrates biodiversity practices into agriculture, involving women as producers and traditional knowledge holders in the co-design of intervention. It also promotes nutritious and underutilized local crops to improve farmers’ incomes. This funding is part of Canada’s commitment made at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in December 2022 in Montreal. It aligned with the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils, one of the Group of Seven (G7) Apulia Food Security Initiatives. Project activities include: (1) co-creating biodiversity interventions; (2) implementing technologies through demonstration plots, tree nurseries, community seed banks, and training programs; and (3) conducting gender-responsive market assessments and using market incentives for conservation.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) conserved or sustainably managed 40,000 hectares of land and planted 100,000 native trees in south-west Colombia, the Kisumu and Vihiga counties of Kenya and the Ucayali region of Peru; (2) provided support to 10,000 farmers and land managers (40% men and 60% women, young men and women, and Indigenous Peoples); and (3) conserved 30 threatened native species and enabled access to diverse genetic material for cultivation and restoration through 150 community tree nurseries and 6 community seed banks.

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