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Environmentally friendly community-based enterprises

September 2003, Bwindi - Community members sell their products at a market. Through an FAO project around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, communities that can no longer depend on resources from within the park for their living have found new ways to generate income. Practical small-scale enterprises have been set up to improve livelihoods using natural resources in a sustainable way.Building on traditional skills, handicraft entrepreneurs have developed new products, using raw materials grown in home gardens and residues from agricultural production, rather than materials collected in the park.

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