Environmental Land and Management and Rural Livelihoods Project

The objective of the Environmental Land Management and Rural Livelihoods Project for Tajikistan was to enable rural people to increase their productive assets in ways that improve natural resource management and resilience to climate change in selected climate vulnerable sites. The project resulted in  44,235 hectares of land with sustainable land management (SLM). This included planting trees, bushes, grasses on 736 hectares of slope land; afforesting 12 hectares of land; establishing or improving 15,459 hectares of pasture; decreasing stoniness, salinization and/or waterlogging and improved soil structure/fertility on 28,028 hectares. These interventions also included the protection of 12,485 meters of rivers banks.