Side Event
Connecting agriculture and biodiversity: integrating action of GEF projects in the Southern Cone of South America
Organizer
Paraná Biodiversity Project, Government of the State of Parana
The World Bank
Date and Time
23 March 2006 18:30 - 20:15
GEF finances or is on the verge of financing 09 full-scale projects in the Southern Cone of South America. All of them share some objectives and targets, but are developed with different strategies as the environmental situation and socioeconomic background of regions are different. The COP-08 is an unique opportunity of put those projects together to discuss lessons learned in for main areas: project and policy management; education; control and protection; biodiversity management and to present to other regional projects or institutional programs the opportunity to align actions with large sinergic gains. The event will present startegies adopted case studies of Projects and a view of integration and of the gains of networked action of projects. This side-event will be complemented by a series of other activities, including field trips to see activities of Parana Biodiversity, seeing how simple practices, as protection of rivers banks with fences, convertion of conventional cattle ranching into agroforestry systems or conventional agriculture into organic production and an extensive educational program aimed at kids, school teachers, farmers and community leaders was developed in paralel to extension activities, complement the conservation function of public and private parks. Projects considered in case studies and present at the meeting are Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro and Cerrado Biodiversity Projects in Brazil; Paraguay and Uruguay Biodiversity Projects.