Collaborating to Facilitate Investments and Shifts to a Green Economy that Can Improve Social Wellbeing and the Provision of Ecosystems Services in the Port Elizabeth Western Catchment Areas - South Africa

The project proposes to bring a wide variety of people in the Kouga and Krom catchments together to address the sustainable development challenges on the landscape and effect a shift to SCP and ecoentrepreneurship practices. Using the collaborative social learning approach, the action aims to achieve the following social outcomes: a) Collective will and ability to collaborate is created, b) Collaborative landscape organization is established and ready to implement, c) Emergent farmers are involved and business partnerships, d) Detailed spatial landscape plans and marketable business plans for sustainable agriculture , restoration and value added chain/interventions developed and adopted and e) Investors are lined up and ready to invest.