Mitigation in Agriculture

Support to the formulation of Appropriate Mitigation Actions in Central American Agriculture.

The project agrees on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) in the livestock and rice sectors in El Salvador and Panama respectively.

Implementation period

24 Months (June 2019 – June 2021)

Subsidy EU

874.994 €

Overall project amount

1126000 €

Countries:


El Salvador
Panama

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Objective

Strengthen national and regional capacities to achieve public-private ownership and consensus on the achievement of mitigation targets in Panama (rice) and El Salvador (cattle), catalysing actions for mitigation and cooperation between Central American countries towards low-carbon development according to the Central American Sustainable Climate-Adapted Agriculture Strategies and the NDCs.

Beneficiaries

  • 1500 people (10% women) including raising awareness to more than 700 people and 300 professionals and producers from the SICA region

Expected Results

1.Capacity Building

and technical assistance to 500 rice or livestock producers and their unions to implement Sustainable Climate-Adapted Agricultural Practices (Spanish acronym ASAC) on their farms.

2.Appropriation and consensus

public-private partnership to formulate mitigation actions and ASAC with the participation of 50 professionals from the public-private sector.

 

3.Catalysing exchanges and cooperation

South-South cooperation with the participation of 50 representatives of institutions and the agricultural sector from 5 Central American countries

Team

  • Javier Montemayor
    Project General Coordinator, IICA, Panama
  • Manuel Pitre
    Project Focal Point for IICA, Panama 
  • Alejandro Hernández
    Project Consultant (El Salvador)
  • Jorge Trejos
    National Project Coordinator (El Salvador)
  • Eli Gómez
    Junior Project Consultant (El Salvador)
  • María Luisa Montenegro
    Administrative Assistant for the Project (El Salvador)

More information: 

  • Erika Aparicio
    Communications liaison for IICA, Communications Officer IICA Panamá 

Main applicant

Co-applicants

Contact us

Address:
European Union
Expertise France office: 73, rue de Vaugirard - 75006 Paris. GIZ office: Rue Archimède 61, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

Telephone:
Expertise France: +33 1 70 82 73 57
GIZ: + 32 2 710 1937
Mail:
agriculturaresiliente@euroclimaplus.org

Implementing Agencies

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