CEPF Grantee Spotlight: T. R. Shankar Raman and Divya Mudappa from Nature Conservation Foundation This husband-and-wife team has been working with Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) to conserve biodiversity in the Western Ghats Region of India. With support from CEPF through our investment in the Western Ghats Region, NCF fostered sustainable agriculture practices for conservation of tropical biodiversity in plantation landscapes. This involved demonstrating a market-based approach to enhancing ecological connectivity while safeguarding agricultural production by introducing the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard into tea and coffee estates in the Anamalai and Mysore-Nilgiri corridors, raising awareness and promoting adoption of sustainable agricultural practices, and developing a set of local indicators that adapts the Sustainable Agriculture Standard to the context of the Western Ghats. Click the link below to read more.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:33:00 +0000
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