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Promoting Agroecological Productivity through Smallholder Management in Northern Tanzania

Published 19 Dec 2025

Tracey Hearn

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This case study describes the work of the forest and farm producer organisation MVIWAARUSHA in Tanzania and gives recommendations for its improvement. Enterprise development that supports agrobiodiversity, protects intact natural vegetation and develops agroforestry systems is being built through MVIWAARUSHA’s trainings in entrepreneurship.

These efforts are underpinned by inclusive finance mechanisms that reduce the risks of innovation and promote on-farm agro-biodiversity through farmer-led experimentation and seed system strengthening.

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Procedures for providing grants to community groups for wetland conservation using ecosystems-based adaptations

Published 29 Mar 2025

Tracey Hearn

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This framework outlines a process developed in Madagascar for managing finance with local communities to support Nature-based Solutions.

It includes sections on context, the steps to follow before the grant is awarded; target and eligible groups; the amount of budget to be allocated, and the method of payment of funds. It also describes safeguarding and monitoring including the complaints system and annual evaluation.

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Business Unusual Report

Published 19 Apr 2024

Tracey Hearn

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This research report presents alternative, inclusive business models for farm and forest production that favour small scale producers and diverse food production systems. In these alternatives, producers mobilise their own flexible finance and engage in partnerships through their savings and credit cooperatives and businesses, supply chain partners and pioneering investors.

Together they are practising ‘business unusual’: adopting practices that support livelihoods, embrace complexity in the interests of biodiversity and climate.

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