Help Farmers Rear Silk Moths to Restore Forests

Summary

Sustainable management of the Makira Forest requires changes in the practices of local subsistence farmers. CPALI teaches them silk rearing that bolsters family income by 60-200% and restores habitat. progress report read updates from the field

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	£6 - Purchases eggs to start a new season
	£19 - Buys a month's production of cocoons from a farmer
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Madagascar faces an environmental and economic crisis. Its own people, in struggling to survive, are destroying the country’s unique biological heritage. Compensatory subsidies, previously used to dissuade farmers from encroaching on protected areas are not sustainable and stifle farmer independence. We seek to extend a proven, locally implemented, methods of wild silk production and give 300+ families living near the Makira protected area access to profitable markets.

Activities

Maintain CPALI demonstration site. Construct 5 more demonstrations in new villages near Makira. In each village provide 5 farmers with 1000 host plants, 9000 moth eggs. Provide on-site instruction & technical support for two years.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £12,936
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £21,437
Total Funding Goal: £34,373

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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Economic uplift for subsistence farmers, their families and communities during a difficult period in the history of Madagascar and in the survival of critically endangered wildlife.

Project Message

"Poverty won’t allow him to lift up his head; dignity won’t allow him to bow it down."
- Malagasy proverb, Trad.

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Robert Weber,
Project Leader
221 Lincoln Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-5100
United States
+1-617-388-9290
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Project Sponsor

Robert Weber

Organisation

Conservation through Poverty Alleviation
221 Lincoln Road
Lincoln, MA 1773
United States
+1-617-388-9290
http://www.cpali.org

Learn more about Conservation through Poverty Alleviation and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Madagascar and can also be found under Climate Change (GG Green).

For more information about Madagascar, read the Human Development Report on Madagascar or the Wikipedia entry for Madagascar.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on March 11, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 25, 2009.

Latest Update from the Field

The latest news: Farmer numbers growing

By Mamy Ratsizambafy - Project leader, Madagascar, March 11, 2010 10:36 AM

CPALI entrepreneur Marie Jean and her new nets

Marie Jean shows off her first crop of cocoons

Mamy's latest news
Denis (CPALI entrepreneur farmer and now team trainer) told me that he got the list of 19 new farmers interested to join the team. Those farmers are waiting for the pot plastics. We are continuing to look for serious farmers ready to work immediately and replace the unserious farmers.
So now we have 26 serious farmers in Ambodivoangy; 5 in Ambalamahogo, 13 in Marovovonana, + Denis and Marie jeanne= so now we have 46 serious farmers in the coba (community managed forest). Jaonary jean (CPALI entrepreneur farmer) said that he met 6 farmers in Andaparaty very interested to join the team and they will visit Jaonary jean's site.
About the rearing: both of Denis and Mario (CPALI project employees) have new larvae and also many eggs, so they are focusing there work on raisins larvae until I come back to Maroantsetra. I plan to come back to Maroantsetra on next week.
Update from Cay Craig, CPALI CEO
Being in the US I have been working on developing our market as well as our non-spun textile. Thanks to the skill of Sylvia Weber, we now have a beautiful, unique textile that is sewn using our suraka cocoons and the stitching is invisible. The textile, (it is the background of the CPALI webpage, www.cpali.org) is generating a lot of market interest. Next week I will be presenting it to George M. Beylerian at the Material Connexion in New York (http://www.materialconnexion.com/) a center that maintains 5 libraries of unique and new materials world wide that are accessed by various industries. This is a great opportunity and I hope our textile is selected for display. As a head up, the librarian has already told us he thinks it is "cutting edge".
March 16 is a fund raising day at Global Giving - the will provide a 30% match for all donations but they donation
must be made on Tuesday.

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