Cotontchad Société Nouvelle (Cotontchad).

Koskilna

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Chad is one of the world’s poorest countries and highly vulnerable to climate change. The country is experiencing increased temperatures, less rainfall, and more frequent extreme weather events such as droughts and floods.&nbsp; This is heavily impacting on people’s livelihoods, including in the cotton sector.
Cotton plays a crucial role in Chad’s economy, serving as an important cash crop for around 250,000 smallholder farmers located in eight provinces in southern Chad. In addition to climate change, the cotton sector faces critical sustainability challenges such as environmental degradation, unsustainable farming practices, and limited access to inputs, credit and technology, leading to low yields and incomes for farmers.&nbsp;
IDH and Cotontchad Société Nouvelle have convened a coalition of stakeholders in Chad to achieve a common vision of inclusive and sustainable development. The core objective is to strengthen the climate resilience of smallholder farming through the creation of economic prosperity as well as the regeneration and protection of natural resources. This requires an inclusive approach, involving all those who depend on this region for their livelihoods, including herders.
The Chad Climate Resilient Landscape or locally referred to as the ’Koskilna’ Landscape uses a framework for inclusive and multi-sectoral land use management and territorial development. It brings together government agencies, private companies, civil society, smallholders, and other relevant stakeholders to discuss and collectively build a long-term sustainable development plan for the region.
Acknowledging that there is a common interest in the sustainable and equitable economic and social development of Chad’s cotton growing region, key local stakeholders began collaborating on the development and delivery of a regional development plan or Compact in mid-2023.&nbsp;&nbsp;The partners worked together to define concrete activities and targets, and these were brought together in a Compact Memorandum of Understanding. This document was signed by the stakeholders in June 2024. Local governance structures have been set up to coordinate and monitor the delivery of the Compact.
You can find out more about Koskilna on its oficial website: <a href="https://koskilna-landscape.td/">here</a>.

IDH is partnering with Job Booster Chad to support agri-entrepreneurs with developing sustainable agricultural and non-agricultural businesses with viable business models that provide quality services to small-scale producers and quality agricultural products for the local and national market.

Improved Rural Service Delivery in Chad Through Building Agri-Entrepreneurship

Multi-year funding agreement between IDH and CTSN focusing on: Effective farmer organizations 1. Improved service delivery to farmers through organizing, structuring, and operationalizing the Village Associations into Cooperatives (contributing to Inclusion Pillar of PPI landscape approach) Better Cotton implementation and licensing 2. Increasing attractiveness of Chadian cotton on the international market through obtaining Better Cotton (BC) licensing and contributing to the sustainable intensification of cotton production through the implementation of BC’s principles and criteria (contributing to Production Pillar of PPI landscape approach) Food security and female empowerment 3. Fostering food security by increasing productivity of food crop farming through GAP training and educational training on good nutrition practices, focusing on the participation of women (contributing to Production and Inclusion Pillar of PPI landscape approach) 4. Financial inclusion through the establishment of Village Savings and Loan Associations, focusing on the participation of women (contributing to Inclusion Pillar of PPI landscape approach) 5. Women’s empowerment through the implementation of CTSN´s gender strategy action plan and training on women’s right, and supporting women’s organizations’ income generating activities (contributing to Inclusion Pillar of PPI landscape approach) 6. Countering child labour through training to raise awareness on child rights, human rights, and CTSN's supplier code among CTSN staff, farmers, and community leaders (contributing to Inclusion Pillar of PPI landscape approach) Climate-resilient and regenerative agriculture 1. Sustainable land management through training farmers on and testing climate smart agricultural practices, focusing on soil health, water management, crop management, pest management, and agroforestry (contributing to Protection Pillar of PPI landscape approach)

Climate-resilient and regenerative cotton production in Chad – Phase 2

1) Sustainable intensification of cotton cropping systems - Upscale of GAP training to cotton farmers (using CTSN's extension structures) - Monitoring and evaluating GAP adoption &amp; associated economic and environmental outcomes (business case creation) 2) Climate-resilient and diversified cottonbased farming systems - Field trials to test and evaluate the production of other crops - Assessment of available markets and farmer income potential of alternative crops - Facilitating conversations to scope the landscape approach (mapping potential partners, selecting geography, aligning on objectives) 3) Service delivery to smallholder farmer and their organizations - Field trials to test and evaluate mechanisation services (including equipment) - Assessment of Village Associations' capacities to deliver inputs and services 4) International market access, added value &amp; strategic actions - BCI Scoping study and addressing recommendations - Development of gender strategy

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