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Practice: Encouraging best agricultural practices and management of nutrient losses. Implemented for: Development and Implementation of the Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe Basin Management Plan.

Overview

Name Encouraging best agricultural practices and management of nutrient losses for Development and Implementation of the Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe Basin Management Program

Practice Encouraging best agricultural practices and management of nutrient losses

Project Development and Implementation of the Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe Basin Management Plan

Region: Baltic Sea Caspian Central and Eastern Europe Central Asia Danube-Black Sea Dnipro Basin Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Global Kura-Aras River Basin Mediterranean Other Prespa Lakes Skader-Shkoder Lake

Details

Lessons learned: http://waterwiki.net/index.php/Lessons_from_the_Lake_Peipsi/Chudskoe_Basin_Management_Program

Comments: Estonia, Russia

Implementation start date: 2003-01-01

Implementation end date: 2006-12-31

Link to project documents: Project documents
http://waterwiki.net/index.php/Lessons_from_the_Lake_Peipsi/Chudskoe_Basin_Management_Program

Results

Annual tons of nitrogen reduced: N/A

Annual tons of phosphorous reduced: N/A

Other outcomes: • Measures to control pollution from crop production, programme strategy focusing on the prevention of nutrient pollution from plant production. • Sound scientific base for the long-term water management is in place; • Raised capacities of the stakeholders; • Joint monitoring activities have been supported and carried out; • Joint data processing and databases have been established; • Information exchange and networking is fully operational; • Public/local stakeholders have been actively engaged into the Programme implementation

Finance

Total co-finance (USD): 3.755 million

Total GEF/WB investment: USD 1 million

Contacts

Co-finance partners:
EU TACIS, MANTRA, Danish EPA, EU LIFE, NGOs

Other partners: Peipsi Center Partnerships

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