Photo: Agroecological farming in Kaolack
Improved food security for people in Niombato by strengthening their ecological and socio-economic resilience, taking into account gender equality and environmental protection.
Directly involved are 31.466 people (23.920 female and 7.546 male), indirectly involved 220.000 people.
The region in the peanut basin of Senegal is dominated by rain-fed agriculture. The combined effects of climate change and anthropogenic pressure on natural resources, caused a deterioration of agricultural ecosystems, manifested by a loss of agricultural land, impoverishment of arable land and an increase in the salinity of land, soil and water. The consequences are a reduction in food production and stocks, loss of income, more difficult access to healthy and varied food and a decline in biodiversity. There are also social injustices. Women and young people are central in local development. Despite their low control over resources, they provide the majority of human resources in family farms. All of these contextual difficulties have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. This lead to a growing awareness of the population, which has begun to strengthen resilience and social inclusion, but to a lesser extent because it lacks the capacities.
