Empowering schools as change agents for sustainable conservation and more food security

The negative impacts of climate change, such as unpredictable rainfall, droughts, temperature rise, and floods pose great difficulties to the population in Tanzania’s Kondoa District. They are affected by food insecurity, water scarcity, biodiversity loss, and pasture degradation. To support the local population, this project implements various conservation activities. Among other things, the project afforestates community land, strengthens community-based natural resource management and plants climatically suitable and nutrition sensitive crops. Participatory actions guide this project, such as community awareness meetings, capacity-building workshops/trainings and collaboration with local leaders, schools, non-governmental organisations, and the private sector. This broad outreach during project implementation shall serve to foster scaling up and replication in the long-run.