Area Wide Projects

Area Wide Projects, as part of the sub-programme: Landcare, involve pro-active ways of preventing the extensive degradation of the natural resources. It is a process that enables communities to craft their “future desired condition” and then implement projects to reach this sustainable objective.

The sub programme: LandCare Services has been active in similar projects in the past, for example the conservation farming project, which focuses on preventing erosion and increasing the efficiency of resource use. This new method of resource use has been a great success and has numerous conservation and economic benefits.

In future, more emphasis will be placed on similar projects to strive for a greater impact on the conservation of the natural resources with the limited financial and human resources available to this sub programme. These projects will involve various government departments and non-government institutions which have been approached to assist us with an integrated approach to resource conservation.

The updating (mapping) of present land use will form the foundation of the project, from which the various participants, including the land users, will plan and map future land use. This cooperative style of planning will take into consideration the Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) of the specific community. The projects that arise from this planning could be similar to the above-mentioned fields, with the difference being the funding source, which would come from the local authority.