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25 years of soil rehabilitation and conservation in the Sahel.
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| Subtitle
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Supporting the efforts of the rural population in Niger
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| Author
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Mamadou A. Gaoh Sani, Aboubacar Djido, Oudou Adamou
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| Editor or Organisation
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GIZ and KfW
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| Year
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2015
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| Keywords
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Soil rehabilitation, Sahel, climate adaptation, cost-benefit
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| Country
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Niger
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| Type
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good practice
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| Language
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English
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| Table of Contents
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Summary 2
1 Introduction 4
2 The programme’s working zone 6
3 How is it done? Concepts and approaches 9
3.1 Participatory approach to village land Management 9
3.2 Continuity needs a long-term strategy 10
3.3 The extension and advisory services system 11
3.4 Local conventions, support for the rural code 11
3.5 Women play an important role – the gender approach 11
3.6 Donkey carts diminish costs and help maintaining soil fertility 12
3.7 Value chains link up production and markets 13
3.8 Economic growth poles 14
3.9 Support measures 14
3.10 Monitoring and evaluation system 15
4 Technical approaches adapted to the people and sites 16
5 A lot has been achieved 20
6 What are the effects and how sustainable is the programme? 22
7 Significant benefits with reasonable cost 27
8 Success and challenges as pointers for future programmes 30
9 Prospects 32
10 Bibliography 33
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| Abstract
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The Governments of Germany and Niger began in the early 1980s to take action
to combat the degradation of land and natural resources
mainly in the regions of Tillabéri Nord and Tahoua in
Niger. During 25 years of work, the programme has developed,
tested and applied a number of soil and water conservation
approaches. On a technical level, the programme developed soil and
water conservation/soil protection and restoration (SWC/
SPR) methods adapted to forest and rangeland on plateaux,
slopes, cropland and valley bottoms. Overall, the
SWC/SPR measures covered 354,294 hectares of cropland,
165,743 hectares of forest and rangeland and 8,132 hectares of valley bottoms. Some 700,000 people have benefited
directly from the measures and tens of thousands of
people have received training. From 1986 to 2011, German cooperation invested around
EUR 92.5 million in the programme, a figure which does
not take into account the significant participation of the
local people in terms of time and physical labour.The German Government has under the Special Unit ‘One
World – No Hunger’ increased its activities focused on
soils with a global programme on soils, as well as numerous
activities to sensitize other international partners
of the importance of the topic during the International
Year of Soils 2015.
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| Permission
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Yes
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| Category
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Resource Management
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