Bio-diversity

The project s goal is to contribute to the development of a sustainable agricultural system that can contribute to the conservation of the biodiversity and at the same time to a sustained way of combating poverty. The womens organisation tries to reach this goal by carrying out an agroforestry project in the village Futunakaba, Suriname. Agroforestry methods to be applied as an alternative on the traditional shifting cultivation method include alley cropping, multiple cropping and multi-storage farming. The project is expected to result in improvement of the efficiency of the farming lands system, increase of the food production, increase of the income and the well-being of the families, improvement of the position of the women, and improvement of the communication of the village with the outside world.

Suriname