Lead country
Argentina
Participating countries
Argentina
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From May 18, 2015 to November 18, 2021
Project ID: 4829
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Mainstreaming biodiversity
Sub-area(s)
- Agrobiodiversity
- Biodiversity financing
Landscape(s)
- Forests
Sub-landscape(s)
- Tropical forests
Transformed sector(s)
- Forestry and other land use
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Direct support / Service Delivery
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Governance
- Law regulation
- Management operation
Sub-strategy
- Institutional framework
- Inter-sectoral coordination
- Laws enforcement/ Regulation
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
- Sustainable land management
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Indigenous peoples
- Women
Gender equality
- Livelihoods for women
- Women's cooperatives and groups
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender targeted
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- People pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
- 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
Conventions and protocols
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Private sector(s)
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
Hot topic
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
About this project
Description
This project will protect high-biodiversity value forest in three globally significant forest ecosystems (Upper Parana Atlantic -UPAF, Yungas and Chaco) in Argentina. It will build on an existing land-use planning and incentive framework that restricts land-use in forested areas (the Native Forest Law). It will overcome current governance and market constraints to optimize the Law´s contribution to reduce conversion and degradation of native forests, increase restoration and foster connectivity. It will mainstream sustainable-use of biodiversity, principally non-timber forest products (NTFP), in management plans developed under the Forest Law, and build capacities of small-scale farmers for biodiversity-based production combined with low impact agroforestry systems near high conservation value forest. It will facilitate access to existing finance mechanisms and subsidies for NTFP and improve supply chains and access to markets for biodiversity friendly products. To maintain production within ecosystem limits it will strengthen the regulatory and enforcement of sustainable-use of forest biodiversity at the provincial and national level. In doing so the project will address threats to biodiversity from existing small-holder production practices while increasing the viability of biodiversity-based land-uses, preventing migration of farmers and providing a buffer to forest areas under strict conservation.
Objectives
Strengthening the management framework for sustainable use of biodiversity1 to increase the protection of high conservation-value forests in Argentina.
USD $4,770,000
Grant amount
USD $23,687,400
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($4,770,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Argentina
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