Our mission
FUNDAPAZ is a non profit organization which has worked towards sustainable rural development together with indigenous communities and farm families in the region of the Argentine Chaco since 1973.Fundapaz has supported local communities and Indigenous People's with recognition of land rights and the development of silvopastoral management system for the Chaco forest, with sustainable production of timber, meat, and honey over last 4 decades. The process includes incorporating silvipastoral management systems for restoring degraded lands and to provide sustainable livelihoods for marginalised people. It also includes supporting self organised communities, collectives and production groups in communities in the Chaco region, leading to long term sustainability of both the silvipastoral systems and livelihoods.
Classification
- Forests
- Grasslands, shrublands and savannahs
- Increases Health & Wellbeing
- Mitigates Climate Change
- Safeguards Biodiversity
- Supports Livelihoods
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VolunteersImpact
The implementation of the silvopastoral management system results in a notable benefit for rural and indigenous communities, including increased meat production, increased honey production and increased biomass and wood production. It has also led to ecological restoration of lands which had been degraded through planting of trees, shrubs and grasses; and through protection. There has been increased carbon sequestration through the production of timber within the silvopasture systems. Biodiversity is protected through regenerating and leaving alone 30% of the farms' area to allow the natural forests to come back. Most important, as large areas of Gran Chaco are being deforested for soyabean cultivation, the silvopastoral system provides an alternate ecologically sustainable livelihood on semiarid regions and is helping reduce the pace of deforestation.
