[{"bbox": [111, 77, 1147, 449], "category": "Text", "text": "recommendations from the gap assessment and geo-spatial survey (output 1.1). SHFs will be supported, trained and mentored to adopt agro-ecological principles and conservation agriculture techniques, in view of adopting to changing and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, induced by climate change. SHFs will be further encouraged to engage in sustainable aquaculture and livestock production to further promote an integrated approach. Soil and water conservation measures will be applied to increase agricultural productivity, and to conserve and restore farmlands and forests. Seed funding will be provided for on-farm processing, development of niche markets for sustainably produced farm products. Youth will be particularly targeted, to embark on delivery of last-mile innovative services. The use of digital financial services will be scaled up and extended among smallholder farmers, including women and youth farmers. Subsequently the availability of enhanced digitalised access to value chain actors, information and trade finance services, will generate prospects for increased access to formal markets and revenues. With improved on-farm efficiency, crop, aquaculture and livestock productivity, with higher remuneration for their produce from better integration to value chains, smallholder farmers, including women and youth farmers, with a sense of rural entrepreneurship, will become an active contributor to increasingly sustainable food system."}, {"bbox": [111, 474, 572, 501], "category": "Text", "text": "Complementarities/Synergies will be sought with:"}, {"bbox": [111, 502, 1147, 636], "category": "List-item", "text": "* A new BMZ funded pipeline project, which will provide TA to the MoA, focusing on the \"Transformation of climate smart smallholder agriculture for improved food systems\", and be implemented by GIZ. The initiative will support agricultural policies, strategies and sector coordination, as well as pilot innovative policy implementation, with direct support to SHFs, value chain actors and rural communities. It will benefit from the strong experience of the German cooperation in the agriculture and nutrition sectors."}, {"bbox": [111, 637, 1147, 691], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The German KfW plans to allocate EUR 10 million to further support actions under the MCDP II \"Scaling up nutrition phase II - (SUN II Programme)\"."}, {"bbox": [111, 692, 1147, 770], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The action will further take into account the findings of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), which will study among others the changing agro-ecological and -climatic pattern agriculture value chains in the entire Kafue watershed."}, {"bbox": [111, 771, 1078, 800], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Ireland plans to design a programme on sustainable food systems, to be implemented from 2023/24."}, {"bbox": [111, 801, 1147, 988], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The Czech Republic, through the Czech Development Agency, will launch a new multi-year project, targeting small- and medium-sized farmers in the Southern Province of Zambia. The project will include promotion of sustainable and climate smart agriculture practices, thereby enhancing farmers' resilience and adaptation to climate change. In addition, sustainable management of natural resources (soil, forests, water), supporting value addition opportunities and improving farmers' access to viable market relationships, financing and insurance are among areas of intervention. The new initiative builds on the strong experience of the Czech Development Agency in the agriculture and rural development sector."}, {"bbox": [111, 1011, 1147, 1280], "category": "Text", "text": "**Under specific objective 3, at community level** (output 3.1), (through direct management of a single grant contract, to be awarded under a Call for Proposals), the action will provide financial support to third parties for investments in sustainable, climate smart diversified local economic activities and value chains as well as creating green decent jobs in support to conservation of biodiversity in the Landscape. These investments may involve: 1) promotion of value chains for forest products and services; 2) mobilisation of equitable carbon finance activities and forest plantations; 3) support to nature-based ecotourism, agro-pastoral activities, game ranching, rangeland and grazing management; 4) sustainable development and management of national parks in the Landscape (such as law enforcement, human-wildlife interaction, biodiversity and wildlife research). This action will also contribute to the national level dialogues on benefit sharing and CBNRM (output 1.1) as well as provision of data for suistanbale management of forests (output 1.3)."}, {"bbox": [111, 1304, 1147, 1359], "category": "Text", "text": "Complementarities/Synergies will be sought with the following projects, including consideration of their geographic focus, to identify and select intervention areas for this Action:"}, {"bbox": [111, 1360, 1147, 1412], "category": "List-item", "text": "* AFD that envisages the possibility to mobilize PROPARCO for commercial lending to private sector companies in the forest sector, next to sovereign lending to Zambia's forest sector."}, {"bbox": [111, 1413, 1147, 1494], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The EU-BMZ co-funded project \"Reducing deforestation and forest degradation through sustainable agricultural value chains and improved forest governance\", which aims to support community forest management groups in the LKSC)."}, {"bbox": [111, 1495, 1147, 1575], "category": "List-item", "text": "* EU funded NDICI action \"Green Economy Promotion and Diversification (GEPD)\" programme, in particular with its dimension to provide investments to MSMEs for the diversification of the economy and creating green and decent jobs."}, {"bbox": [111, 1576, 1147, 1656], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The EU funded DeSIRA/GPGC \"Zambia for Agroforestry, Biodiversity and Climate (Z4ABC)\" project, implemented by CIFOR, in collaboration with Finnish research institutions, which will use adapted research to improve and pilot new value chains in the agriculture-forestry-biodiversity-water and climate nexus in part"}, {"bbox": [1052, 1669, 1157, 1691], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 16 of 26"}]