Policy-makers from Guinea, Mali and Mauritania speak about three topics crucial to enhance responsible investment in agriculture: the investment approval process, inclusive and effective consultations, and investment for young agri-entrepreneurs. Likewise, young agri-entrepreneurs from Guinea and Senegal highlight challenges and opportunities to engage youth in responsible agricultural investment. These interviews...

Measures that empower young agri-entrepreneurs should be a key component of a sustainable development-centred investment promotion strategy. The very realization of future generations’ food security, the sustainable transformation of food systems and the combat against unemployment and distress migration all depend upon the successful implementation of strategies that make the...

Rural youth risk to disproportionately suffer from the pandemic. Already facing higher unemployment and underemployment rates compared to adults, rural youth are 40 per cent more likely to be in casual work arrangements than urban youth.[1]  Most earn their income on a daily or weekly basis, with little or no access to...

Au Sénégal, l’agriculture est confrontée au triple défi de la croissance démographique, du changement climatique et de la dégradation des ressources productives (eau, sols, forêts). Dans ce contexte, lemodèle actuel d’intensification agricole n’apportera pas de réponses durables. Les systèmes de production conventionnels paraissent performants à court terme, mais ils sont...

Dans le cadre du projet Sécurité alimentaire: une agriculture adaptée (SAGA), la FAO coordonne différentes initiatives pilotes sur le renforcement des capacités adaptatives de la société civile au Sénégal et en Haïti. Dans ce contexte, d’octobre 2019 à mars 2020, Carrefour International et l’Association pour la promotion de la femme sénégalaise...

Kayar, on the west coast of Senegal, is an artisanal fishing community with livelihoods in canoe fishing, artisanal processing of fish products and fish retail. The processing side of the sector — gutting, smoking, and filling cans — is mostly occupied by women, who make up 85% of the processing...

This document is the conference proceedings of the meeting led by the Alliance for Agroecology in West Africa (3AO) on 27-29 January. Farmers and peasant organizations from across West Africa joined forces with international development agencies and research centres gathered to give impetus to a growing agroecological movement in the...

This report responds to heightened concerns over rising levels of farmer-herder conflict across a wide band of semi-arid Africa. We assess the quantitative evidence behind this general impression and review the explanations in the scientific literature, in the light of known issues with long-standing attitudes towards pastoralism and mobile populations....

Groundswell International and Cultivate! publish this new briefing on how to upscale and outscale agroecology in the Sahel in West Africa.  The briefing starts from an integrated approach, combining agroecology with women’s self-empowerment, nutrition, equity and governance. It outlines concrete steps in three general strategies for how civil society organisations can successfully support processes to scale up...

The return of more abundant rainfall in the Sahel region since the early 2000s raises questions about the consequences of this change for breeders in the Ferlo region of Senegal. A detailed analysis of precipitation data shows that with the return of a more humid rainfall regime, the climatic risk...

Au Sénégal, de nombreuses initiatives ont permis l’amélioration des droits fonciers des femmes. Toutefois, ces interventions présentent des effets pervers. S’appuyant sur l’analyse de trois études de cas, cette note présente quelques uns de ces effets et souligne la nécessité d’aborder la question de l’accès au foncier des femmes en...

Since its official launch in May 2016, Agribusiness web TV has been promoting various initiatives by young farmers and entrepreneurs who have become involved in the agricultural sector. This publication presents twenty-four of these youth initiatives that are engaged in production, processing (cereals, chocolate), green jobs and nutrition (organic market...

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is rolling out digital innovation technologies in the form of SMS text messages and smart phone applications across the African continent, starting in Senegal and Rwanda. In this pilot episode of FAO's new podcast Stories From The Field, we head to Tambacounda, 450...

More than 12 million small-scale farmers and their families in the risk-prone, dryland areas of the Western Sahel have become chronically vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity. This growing crisis is due to a constellation of factors, including the collapse of soil fertility and climate change. Agroecology Plus Six (AE+6)...

Ce numéro de la revue AGRIDAPE fait un focus sur des expériences qui rentrent dans le cadre général d’une stratégie locale d’adaptation aux changements climatiques s’appuyant sur les ressources du milieu naturel, en lieu et place d’un recours abusif à des intrants externes qui pourraient être nuisibles à l’environnement. Les contributeurs...

Le Baromètre de l’économie verte du Sénégal est une analyse détaillée de l’état de la transition vers une économie durable et inclusive du Sénégal. Elle revient par exemple sur le programme de création d’opportunités d’emplois verts qui vise le secteur de l’agriculture, aux côtés de celui de l’industrie et des...

La transhumance transfrontalière est trop souvent réduite à une activité génératrice de conflits qu’il est possible de régler très facilement en fermant les frontières. Cette note aux décideurs montre une réalité beaucoup plus complexe. La mobilité pastorale en Afrique de l’Ouest représente un apport économique de plusieurs dizaines de milliards...

Table ronde organisée à l’occasion des 40 ans d’AVSF sous le haut patronage de Madame Aminata MBENGUE NDIAYE, Ministre de l’Élevage et des Productions Animales Au Sénégal, comme dans toute l’Afrique de l’Ouest et dans le monde entier, la cohabitation de différents systèmes agricoles et d’élevage est un fait : au Sénégal,...

This report unpacks and explores farmer-managed seed systems and their contribution to food and seed sovereignty, including the benefits they provide to farming communities as a part of their sociocultural, economic, spiritual and ecological livelihoods. The report highlights, exposes and explores how these systems work. It builds on reports of...

Terre et Paix is an EU funded project which has been implemented since February 2015 by the Italian NGO COSPE in partnership with the three national farmers’ platforms of Senegal, Mali and Niger, (CNCR, CNOP and PFPN), under the auspices of ROPPA (Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs de...