Objectives: To contribute to the sustainable livelihood improvement of the farming communities through conservation and sustainable use of agro-biodiversity with especial emphasize to the young, adolescents girls and poor in the northern region of Bangladesh.

Themes of the project:

1. Seed security and diversity
2. Climate change, adaptation and mitigation
3. Rural economy and farmer organization
4. Gender equality

Activities:

• Workshop/Meeting on GO-NGO-Farmer collaboration
• Strengthening Seed Model Farmer
• Field Crop Demonstration
• Seed bank maintenance
• Germplasom conservation
• Seed model farmer,s Sharing meeting
• Participatory variety selection
• Parmaculture Strengthen
• Promotional Organic fertilizer and pesticide
• Vermi Compost Community Model
• Day observation-Women day, Environment day
• Experience sharing workshop-
• Plant diversification model farmers establishment
• ECO Fair
• Agriculture fair/Tree fair
• Marketing of Organic products
• Employment skill training for young farmer
• Meeting with local market commitee
• Workshop with model seed farmers & vendors
• Strengthen Market Corner
• Drama/Street theater/folk song
• Community Gender Analysis
• School Programs
• Workshop with local elites and staffs on gender
• Leadership development training to young group leaders

Key strategies / approaches

• Priority to the adolescents and youth farmers
• Skill development to Young and youth farmers as they play a vital role in the ecological farming through a participation process.
• Initiate community led development approach for managing project implementation so that the project beneficiaries can involve with its monitoring, implementing and evaluation process.
• Create opportunities for sharing knowledge and experiences.
• Initiate for developing market process.
• Increase coordination and cooperation among different institutions.

Impact of the project:

• Increased soil fertility in the working area.
• Increased using of organic fertilizer in the working area.
• increased pest and disease control followed by organically in working area
• Increased local variety of vegetables cultivation in targeted communities.
• Increased improved organic fertilizer conservation process in the targeted communities.
• Increased organic vegetables cultivation in the homestead area.
• Increased availability local seeds in the communities.
• Increase income of the targeted adolescents and youth farmers

Location of the project:

Union: Salandar, Goreya, Upazila- Thakurgaon Sadar, Dist.- Thakurgaon,

No. of Project Participants: 1650 HH.

Project Budget: BDT 48,00,000.00   

Project duration: May,2010 to April, 2015

Financed by: USC Canada- Bangladesh