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13 December 2010, Rumonge - A woman farmer tending to goats in a Villages Ruraux Integrées (VRI). The village was built by the government to house the internally displaced persons returning to Burundi mainly from Tanzania between 1972 and 1993.
FAO Project: OSRO/BDI/906/SWE - Supporting rapid reintegration of internally displaced persons to their communities in the Provinces of Bururi, Makamba, Rutana, Ruyigi, Cankuzo and Muyinga. The main objectives of the project are the following: to reinforce and rehabilitate coordination of emergency agricultural aid to ensure food security; Maintenance of food security through the use of an Early Warning System for Food Security (SAP-SSA) and a Strategic Framework for the Classification of Food Security (IPC); Increasing accessibility and availability of seeds and agricultural inputs as well as promoting conservation and transformative infrastructures; Rehabilitation of the ecosystems of high potential (marshlands) utilizing better management of water in areas under high demographic and land tax pressure; Diversifying sources and quality of foods and increasing revenue sources for vulnerable households through small livestock farming and fruit and vegetable gardens.

12/13/2010

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