At the Caribbean nation’s pavilion in the event, they will provide details of the work carried out since its launching in 2021 and the work developed with children and adolescents to motivate their families to protect the environment.
IRES, planned for a seven-year period, is implemented by the island’s Ministry of Agriculture with technical assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and financing from the Green Climate Fund.
It works on the rehabilitation of productive landscapes in seven municipalities vulnerable to climate change, with actions such as clearing land invaded by marabú and establishing agroforestry and silvopastoral modules with impacts on food production.
The project seeks to mitigate the emission of around 2.7 million tons of greenhouse gases by working with 52,000 family farmers, 25,000 of whom are women, and introducing better forestry practices on 35,000 hectares of land.
This will also contribute to improve food and nutritional security and increase the resilience and stability of local food production systems.
Training is therefore an essential part of this initiative, from the producers themselves to managers, technicians and actors from national institutions, who learn about better agricultural production practices, resilience, inclusive communication, environmental safeguards and gender equality.
IRES is the first project in Cuba supported by the Green Climate Fund, which approved US$119 million.
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