CARE - Combating climate change through regenerative Agriculture, water Resources conservation and Financial Education

About this project

The CARE initiative was conceived to propose effective approaches to counteract the adverse phenomena caused by climate change. The area of intervention is located in Lebanon, in the Shouf Biosphere Reserve, which occupies around 5% of the entire Lebanese territory. Its traditional practices linked to agricultural, pastoral and forestry systems have contributed to shaping this rich territory, within which lie the two areas on which the project actions will focus: the Ramsar site of Aammiq, Lebanon's most important wetland area, and the forest area of West Beqaa, a rich territory with a purely agricultural vocation. The Aammiq wetland area is characterised by a considerable impoverishment of its rich biodiversity, accelerated by the effects of CC but also by invasive anthropogenic activities leading to water stress, water pollution, soil impoverishment and inappropriate agricultural practices. On the other side of the Beqaa, the Mediterranean forest has recently been devastated by major logging actions, seriously threatening natural habitats. The proposal builds on interventions carried out in recent years by Istituto Oikos and its partners, in particular to implement some of the priorities that emerged from the management plan for the Aammiq Ramsar site developed by Oikos as part of a UNDP initiative. In line with the targets of MDGs 6.6, 13.3, 15.3 and 15.9, CARE's objective is to improve the ecosystem of the target areas by working on agriculture as a bearer of environment…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 2Zero Hunger
• 6Clean Water and Sanitation
• 7Affordable and Clean Energy
• 13Climate Action
• 15Life on Land

Published by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development · Government

Countries

Lebanon

Sectors

Solar energy for isolated grids and standalone systemsAgricultural developmentAgricultural financial servicesEnvironmental policy and administrative managementEnvironmental education/training

Focus

Disaster risk reduction · Also contributesNutrition · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Main focusBiodiversity · Main focusClimate mitigation · Main focusClimate adaptation · Main focus

Funded by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Implemented by

ISTITUTO OIKOS ONLUS

Accountable

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Published by AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 23 Jan 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-6-4-013244-05-1.

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