CLIMATE CHANGE & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Creating alternative livelihoods support to scale up sustainable mangrove conservation in coastal communities

Creating alternative livelihoods support to scale up sustainable mangrove conservation in coastal communities

Sierra Leone had an estimated area of 105,300 hectares of mangrove in the Sherbro River Estuary. Unfortunately human activities and population explosion in the Sierra Leone coastal areas is contributing to the loss of the valuable mangrove habitat including those in the Sherbro River Basin. SEED is working in Bonthe District in the mangrove communities, to preserve these areas and promote community-based sustainable mangroves management and provision of alternative livelihood for coastal communities. SEED has helped capacitate communities on the economic benefits of mangrove conservation; and provided alternative livelihoods, including vegetable farming and sustainable oyster harvesting. Open the Link to watch the impact of our work: https://youtu.be/lMRFQ3QGx-A?si=4xg75KMbzQAKNk7Y

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Supporting Smallholder Farmers affected by large-scale palm oil investment undertaken by multinational agribusiness companies

Supporting Smallholder Farmers affected by large-scale palm oil investment undertaken by multinational agribusiness companies

Since the arrival of multinational agribusiness companies in Southern Sierra Leone in the early 2011 as part of a large-scale investment in palm oil, the majority of affected communities had lost access to and control over their land. Today the vulnerable smallholder farmers mainly women who own these lands are struggling to survive. As part of our intervention to address the problem, SEED-Supporting Entrepreneurship and Economic Development with support from Charity Pot UK is enhancing food security in the affected communities by organizing farmers into farmers group and provided them with training in good agronomic practices for the production of some staple foods including groundnuts, rice and cassava among others. To date SEED had trained and formed a total of five (5) farmer groups. It’s worthy to note that a direct impact of our intervention is ten (10) of these targeted farmers are now enrolled as oil palm out-grower farmers.