Nature Positive Food Systems for Climate Change Adaptation (Nature+) is a Canadian Foodgrains Bank program to scale up nature-based solutions, enhance climate-resilient livelihoods, and enable women and other vulnerable people in communities—and their landscapes— to adapt to climate change.
As one of the projects in the Nature+ program, Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is supporting Towards Sustainable Use of Resources Organization (TSURO) Trust with a three-year agriculture and livelihoods project in the Chimanimani District in Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe.
As a result of climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation, the inhabitants of the Nemakonde landscape community continue to face issues of food insecurity, lack of wood for fuel, vulnerability to weather events and natural disasters, ecosystem degradation, and internal displacement and emigration. In response to these issues, TSURO Trust will enhance the adoption of gender-responsive nature-based solutions to improve biodiversity and enhance climate resilient livelihoods through: the practice of conservation agriculture; community planned grazing; land restoration and community based seed systems for herd health management; agroforestry; soil and plant nutrition management; farmer-led seed systems; mainstreaming agroecology in agricultural extension;, aquaculture; and landscape regeneration through soil and water conservation measures. The inclusion and empowerment of women and other vulnerable groups will be a focus in all these activities.
TSURO Trust aims to work with 3,776 participants from 836 households with a total of 4,437 people reached.