Bio-diversity

This project are to identify and access the applicability of potential conservation farming techniques, build the capacity of indigenous communities around the Lake Ecosystem in sustainable land management and facilitate a shift from the currently practised slash and burn to sustainable land management practices based on a sustainable land management and integrated ecosystem management principles in the lake area. The approach taken is a participatory integrated community based land management and biodiversity conservation that will fully involve the indigenous people (herders) and native farmers (croppers). The project will also consider gender mainstreaming and involve women, youths (boys and girls) and persons with disabilities. The project is necessary because Wum Lake is a touristic site and also considered to be of outstanding local and National importance for conservation of its biodiversity, most of which are endemic in the North West Region. The project is located in the Wum Lake Ecosystem and targets the herders, an indigenous landless minority group of Muslim background who live in the area in scattered hamlets and depend on livestock keeping and subsistent agriculture for their livelihoods. The project also targets the native croppers (particularly women) of the surrounding communities and youths. It comprises 4 main activities. By accomplishing these activities, the project would have achieved the goals and specific objectives of sustainable land management and it will adopt local capacity building in sustainable land management, integrated ecosystem management and climate change mitigation.

Cameroon