00:05In recent decades, climate change and environmental degradation have intensified globally,
00:12especially Sub-Saharan Africa, being affected due to its reliance on climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture.
00:20In Uruguay, these challenges are even more pronounced.
00:24The country's mountainous terrain and high population density contribute to soil erosion, land degradation,
00:31and increased vulnerability to climate shocks, especially in the western province.
00:37Addressing these issues requires sustainable approaches that restore ecosystems while strengthening community resilience.
00:47My name is Yamani Mabano, working as the manager of the Molecular Project.
00:53The Molecular Project is a project that is building resilience to climate change
01:00and sustainable agricultural value chains in agro systems around Mukura, Kishkwati forest, and Lake Kivu catchment.
01:10The project has two main objectives. The first one is landscape restoration.
01:17The second objective is the improvement of the livelihoods of communities.
01:24Nature-based solutions offer such an approach.
01:27By restoring landscapes, enhancing carbon sequestration, and supporting livelihoods,
01:33they provide a pathway to climate resilience and green growth.
01:38The Molecular Project is a key example of this approach in action.
01:44Talking about the restoration of degraded arable land, the project is going to, actually is restoring since 2023, 22,266
01:56hectares of degraded arable land.
02:01In the two districts, Rutsiro and Ngororero, in the western province of Rwanda.
02:07The project is going to restore this area by implementing two key activities.
02:13The first one is the tree planting. The second is the establishment of terraces.
02:19It's a kind of change, because the wild-f君 has been cleaned up near the house,
02:23so they without movingzes, ogr televhKI.
02:29As I support it, I encourage people to settle a few places,
02:42how to engage and lift a certain number of lives as their families on the right.
02:44As long as it illustrates, so their bois is quite key.
02:44I have learned hard things.
02:45I've also learned about the harvest
02:46and cần to serve.
03:03Over the past three years,
03:06the project has delivered strong results,
03:09with over 6.3 million trees planted and grown
03:13while land restoration reaching 89% of the target and the trees that are going
03:20to be planted for the farmers I will be composed of 50% in native a 30% fruits
03:30and then 20% exotic so the second initiative is the establishment of
03:37terraces and the project is constructing with in partnership with the local
03:44communities and leadership two types of terraces radical terraces that will be
03:52constructed on 2,450 hectares and progressive terraces that will be
03:59constructed on 7,739 hectares so the establishment of terraces
04:07comes with a package composed of organic manure for one hectare of radical
04:16terraces the project is providing 15 tons of organic manure or compost and two
04:25tons of lime community engagement has also been highly successful with over 44,540
04:33farmers registered and strongly participating through friends of nature
04:39associations
04:42project is being implemented on on the land of smallholder farmers so they are the
04:50key stakeholders over the project talking about to the engagement of of the
04:56communities the project he has engaged both local communities and the
05:01leadership since the inception so during the design also these communities that
05:08the drivers of the implementation be also as this is a carbon project so there
05:14will be benefit sharing and the communities will touch a percentage of the
05:21carbon credits that will be generated by the by the project institutional
05:27strengthening has also been a key achievement structures such as the natural base
05:32community fund known as umosave fund and the best restoration sites have
05:38reached full establishment notably the fund is already financing community driven
05:44micro projects with approximately 840 000 us dollars mobilized to support local
05:53initiatives
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06:04We are firmly in our hands because we are not here.
06:08We are still going to do things with the land.
06:12I think it's a little bit of a big thing.
06:15If we go back to the land and the land,
06:19we will find the land and land.
06:20The land would be watered by the land.
06:21When we see the land and we will be able to find the land.
06:27We will be able to find the land and from the land.
06:29The project has also strengthened livelihoods by establishing key value chain in avocado, banana, beekeeping and coffee while surpassing job
06:48creation targets with over 283,000 green jobs created.
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07:02billion once inhabited region of the village. And
07:03this was later in the village of our village as well. The
07:05villageiteineni requires more active, job-specific and spiritual service. And
07:06this projectấm t Il k ou s i z i a s and it is alsoifications on mobile. They
07:09use the marketing sistema so that they can go to Kululi when they use us. The
07:13products cannot lie to nubito but not equal to nubito.
07:42The Molecular Project demonstrate how a
07:45nature-based solution can effectively address environmental challenges while delivering tangible social-economic benefits.
08:26So far, we are happy with what we have achieved.
08:31The most important change that is observed is the mindset.
08:38We would like to thank the districts where the project is being implemented.
08:44We would also like to reorganize the farmers who work tirelessly with the project so that it can be a
08:52success story.
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