Taking a strategy based on principles of local empowerment, this project will make key technical investments in the targeted townships. Impoverished and marginal farmers in these areas will benefit from the project’s additional investments in natural and productive capital, such as improved water supply on drought-prone fields; access to diversified and improved crops for fields and home gardens; expanded agro-forestry services; diversified livestock rearing; and arrested soil erosion and watershed protection. Landless people will benefit from diversified livestock assets, improved ecosystem services, and greater opportunities for manual labor in water-, forestry- and agroforestry-related components of the project. Additionally, the project seeks to strengthen landless peoples’ participation in Community-based Organisations, especially Forest User Groups