Climate-Adapted Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture (CANSAP) Project
- Donors: ADRA Japan and ADRA HongKong Ltd
- Budget: 340,000 USD
- Duration: 3 years (15 April 2024 to 30 March 2027)
- Focus area: Sagsai, Bugat and Ulgii soums, Bayan-Ulgii Province
- Beneficiary Partners: 225 households
Goal
To enhance the livelihoods of 225 vulnerable households across Bugat, Sagsai, and Ulgii soums in Bayan-Ulgii Province. This will be achieved through bolstering agricultural productivity and profitability, while simultaneously fostering improved health and resilience within these communities.
Sustainability
Establish a paradigmatic model for prolonging the growing season and enhancing productivity amidst the harsh climatic conditions of Bayan-Ulgii. Moreover, it aims to set an effective vegetable marketing model among smallholder farmers through a supply/value chain approach.
Highlights
- Passive Solar Greenhouse Construction training session for farmer households was successfully conducted by a Consultant-Trainer from GERES INGO, a partner agency of ADRA.
- The project is designed to introduce pioneering climate-adapted farming methods, including the utilization of passive solar greenhouses to extend the growing season, along with a value chain approach for efficient marketing, marking the first of its kind in Bayan-Ulgii Province.
- ADRA Mongolia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kameliyat A., Governor of Bayan-Ulgii Province; Nurgulan B., Head of the Food and Agriculture Department of Bayan-Ulgii Province; Baurjan K., Governor of Sagsai District; Nurbolat Kh., Governor of Ulgii District; and Yerlan Kh., Governor of Bugat District during the official launch of the project.
- The project launch marks an important step towards ensuring efficient collaboration and synergy between ADRA Mongolia and soum governors, benefiting local communities by building solar greenhouses and supporting sustainable livelihoods through an extended planting season of 3-5 months.
- Undrakh Banzragch, Program Coordinator of ADRA Mongolia conducted a training program, which combined a workshop and discussion on general knowledge of supply chain and marketing, as well as, determining the participants’ cooperation and involvement in developing supply chain.
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