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January 2022
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Highlights
Women's organization producing economic transformation
In Nepal, rural women are demonstrating inspiring progress in [cid:image004.jpg@01D812C2.B4F26710] entrepreneurship and policy advocacy. Led by Ms Shanta Neupane, female producers have pooled their efforts and skills to form a cooperative and achieve economic independence through agroforestry and vegetable farming.
Read the story of Shanta<https://news.globallandscapesforum.org/viewpoint/producer-groups-key-to-empowering-rural-women-in-nepal/>
From the countries
Rural women in Ghana lead Baobab industry
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The Organisation for Indigenous Initiatives and Sustainability (ORGIIS) is helping smallholder farmers and the locally controlled forest products cooperative union KANBAOCA, supported by the Forest and Farm Facility, to expand and build on their non-timber forest products business value chains.
Learn more about the uses of Baobab fruit<https://shemasterplanner.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-baobab-vaue-chain-how-orgiis-is.html?m=1>
Growing trees for a better future in Zambia
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Zambian producer groups, such as the Choma District Tree Nursery Association, and locals have embraced the tree planting business, sparked by the country's Plant a Million Trees campaign. The initiative has been delivering significant economic and environmental benefits at the local and collective levels.
Read the article<http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/growing-trees-for-living/>
Videos
Building sustainable livelihoods in Ghana
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Tele-Bere, a community-focused organization, is helping smallholders to boost their incomes, market their sustainable forest products, and more. It is a member of the Trillion Trees: Sahel and Great Green Wall community and a Forest and Farm Facility partner.
Watch the 1-minute video<https://www.weforum.org/videos/this-social-enterprise-is-building-sustainable-livelihoods-in-ghana?collection=uplink-94e9e17352>
Meet a forest-users community network in Tanzania
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Thanks to the MJUMITA network, small-scale producers (such as beekeepers and charcoal producers) are expanding their businesses through capacity building and better market access. Communities benefit from natural resources while managing them sustainably.
Watch the story of Joyce, charcoal producer<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moMcbWUrpEk>
New brand of Bolivian organic coffee launched
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A new organic coffee brand, Bolivian Cafecito, was founded through capacity building, quality control efforts and strengthened partnerships amongst small farmers, the National Association of Coffee Producers, and the Bolivian government. The new brand is exporting to the international market.
Find out more in this video<https://youtu.be/81ZHER3U8Hc>
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