Integrated Agricultural Association IAA provides equal opportunities for women and men to contribute significantly in nature conservation and the preservation and protection of biodiversity while creating awareness about climate change and how insects contribute to food security, poverty reduction and environmental health.
1.) Integrated Agricultural Association is promoting bee farming as a strong financial incentive for rural communities and women to alleviate poverty. With little or no capital a poor rural woman and young person without access to land titles would use forest areas, mountains and valleys to generate income through bee farming, while contributing to the increased food security through the pollination services by honey bees and other insects. Enhancing biodiversity and environmental health, as the bee farmers continue to protect their hives against bushfires.
2.) Creation of Community Apiary: IAA has secured a land with a capacity of 5 hectares in Kumbo to install an Apiary which will not only serve as a honey production farm, but a community biodiversity resource farm, for research, education, capacity building of stakeholders in honey and vegetables value chains, conservation and adaptation.
3.) Planting of Bee loving trees: In the land secured and with the participation of the community members, IAA planted 700 trees, including Prunus africana on the 5 hectares plot and mounted five locally made hives with bamboos and aims to inspire the local community on the goodness of honey bees and empowering youths and women on sustainable agriculture and bee keeping while building resilient livelihoods through sustainable climate adaptation measures and advocacy.
With donations made through GlobalGiving and support received from other sources, we are significantly improving lives and the physical environment in our community. We aim to plant 50,000 trees and train 5000 peseants and smallholder farmers on alternative livelihoods including bee farming. Your continues donation of any amount through GlobalGiving will strengthen our impact and enables us achieve these goals by 2026.
Thank you for being part of this journey and for caring about our collective future. We can't thank you enough for supporting us.
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