2021-07-21 12:22:51
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Minister of Environment and Tourism N.Urtnasan and Resident Representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Mongolia Vinod Ahuja discussed the ‘Sustainable Resilient Ecosystem and Agriculture Management in Mongolia’ (STREAM) project to be co-implemented by the sides with funding support from the European Union.
The EUR 4.2 million project aims at increasing the capacity of Mongolian communities to implement innovative and sustainable long-term landscape management to address food system challenges and climate stresses and to achieve its objective, the STREAM project will work in two fields of action.
FAO will focus its support on mainstreaming climate change adaptation into the agricultural landscape management to increase agricultural productivity, sustainability and value addition using EUR 1.65 million. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH will concentrate its support on improving capacity for sustainable landscape management of forest resources and conservation of biodiversity using EUR 2.6 million.