The
Desert Margins Program is a collaborative initiative among nine
countries ( Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Botswana, Namibia,
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya ), five centers of the Consultative
Group on International Agricultural Research ( ICRISAT, ICRAF, IFDC,
ILRI, TSBF-CIAT), and three Advanced Research Institutes ( CEH ,
IRD, CIRAD) (see details about partners). This initiative is to
try to implement the Convention to Combat Desertification. Furthermore,
the problem of biodiversity loss is particularly critical in these
very dry areas (100 to 600 mm annual rainfall) where ecosystems
are less likely to recover once they are seriously damaged.
The overall objective of the DMP is therefore
to arrest land degradation in Africa’s desert margins through
demonstration and capacity building activities and also to combat
reduced sequestration of carbon, and increased soil erosion and
sedimentation. The specific objective is to preserve and to restore
the ecosystems by improving the practices of management of the
natural resources. To do so, public and private organisations
and NGO are involved in specific topics such as forestry studies,
ecological monitoring, …
In Burkina Faso, the "Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique" (CNRST) manages
the Desert Margins Program...... More
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