Increasing Food Security, Income Generation and Environmental Sustainability for 4 villages in Northern Senegal through Sustainable Farming, Agroforestry and Sustainable Settlements Capacity Building Part 1 Scenario Planning August 2014

1. The Launch
We Share the Same Cooking Pot
Baarmé o ko goto

2. Purpose of the Launch Trip
Community Engagement and Scenario Planning
Consolidating Institutional Framework
Defining Technical Package

3. Preparing the trip in Dakar
Prof Tamba, Ousmane Pame
Introducing
Moringa Oleifera – The Miracle Tree
Vetiver Grass
Bois Rame Fragmente- BRF
Introducing the Plan of Consultation

4. First Stop Saint Louis

5. Building Bridges…

6. with Le Partenariat… Absa Guisa

7. With the Regional
Development Agency…
Osmane Sow
Welcomes the Project as a Contribution
St Louis Regional Development Plan
Which promotes
•Economic Development
•Good Governance

8. On the Way to Gué∂é

9. On the Way to Gué∂é

10. Car Commitive to Guide
us in Guédé

11. Welcome Party Greetings

12. Welcome Party Greetings

13. Welcome Party Greetings

14. Over 300 community members welcoming
the arrival of the project in the region

15. The Elders Speak

16. The Women Dance

17. Key Player- CRG- Since 2000 Training
Farmers and Producing Seeds

18. 45 Eco-Sentinels: youth learning
from Amadou Bra Sy
We collect seeds for agriculture biologique
Fight against plastic waste
Mobilize the community through theatre

19. Sentinels: “We are Ready and can collect
1000 seeds of Mango in one day”

20. “In one tomato we can
get 100 seeds”

21. Due Diligence

22. Due Diligence

23. Due Diligence

24. EU Project Office in Guédé

25. Guédé Women’s
Scenario Planning

26. Guédé Women’s Vision of Agriculture
for the next 10 Years

27. Conventional Agriculture should be
completely ‘oublie’, we need to get
rid of fertilizers

28. We grow gumbu, jarratu, aubergine…
…courgette, onion, pepper, corn, cabbage, but we have no
mango, banana and fruit trees and want to learn how to
improve soil… and increase diversity and abundance

29. We are 210 women. We have 5 plots of
land to offer for the project and need
land management skills
2 by the River, one in East, and one near the Road

30. We want to participate on both aspects of the project
the organic gardens and the agroforestry. And we
need more diversity.
2 by the river, one in East, and one near the road

31. We want to be free from banks and only
rely on our strength.
2 by the river, one in East, and one near the road

32. We are soldiers ready for the
battle of organic agriculture

33. Captain Diarra Head of Forestry Para-Military
Service for the Improvement of Biodiversity in Podor
This project can add to
Le Plan D’Action Forestier de Saint Louis
Le Plan de Travail Annuel des Eaux and Forets de Podor
I am willing to contribute to the sucessfull outcome of the project.
You do not need to pay me as this is my work! I hope it will inspire
other communities of Podor!

34. Para-Military Nursery in Podor
Key activities of the Department:
• Forestry Management Classified 1 and Protected Forests
• Production of Plants
• Protection and Regeneration of the Soils
• Improvement of Biodiversity
• Support to local population to plant trees until they can fly for themselves

35. Lahel Scenario Planning
We are all Daughters and Sons of Farmers, and we
want to continue the journey of our ancestrals
We have 250 hectares, 7 associated villages, rice is the main activity, we
have no trees and 3000 people share a common land

36. We used to have thick forest with lions, elephants. panters and
hienas behind very tall grass, today the forest is like a skeleton.
The rivers were full of crocodiles. All animals have left us today…

37. We want our kids to learn how to
work with trees. Lahel Mother

38. “Poverty Paralyses Culture.
Poverty Paralyses Everything…”

39. Moundouwaye Scenario Planning
Prayer to Open the Meeting

40. Today rain is rarer, weather hotter, we
have more wind and shorter time for
vegetables

41. Deep Listening:
We are all farmers, farming is at the heart of
our life. We never had someone to help us

42. Each one of us is holding this project
with 10 hands

43. Running Before Sand Storm

44. Climate Change is a Reality

45. Sand Storm from the Sahara

46. On our way to scenario
planning in Diarra

47. Our path has been flooded
by yesterday’s rain

48. Professor Tamba identifying Vetiver Grass to
combate desertification in Diarra’s territory

49. Diarra Acacia Forest has freshened the
community, kept the sand storms away

50. Scenario Planning &
Consultation in Diarra

51. Land-wise we have resources. This
project is a present to us and we are
willing to invest our efforts

52. We have 8-10 closely knit satellite
villages who are all represented here

53. If you support people in their
livelihoods you give them wings

54. We have plenty of dust from the Sahara,
we lost our resources, the land is dying

55. This project is the best news in
years

56. Natural Design in Diarra

57. Building Natural Bridges in
Diarra