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The major constraints to the continued success of this technology are fluctuation in rainfall, which may negatively
affect crop yield and continued availability of credit for the warrantage system.
2.3.4 Contribution to the overall DMP project goal and objectives
This technology will contribute to the overall DMP-GEF goal and to the following specific objectives:
• Develop and foster improved and integrated soil, water, nutrient, vegetation and livestock management
technologies and policies to achieve greater productivity of crops, trees and animals to enhance food security,
income generation and ecosystem resilience in the desert margins (Output 1.3 – documentation of indigenous
knowledge; Output 1.6 – regeneration of vegetal species; Output 7.1 – participation of vulnerable groups; Output
7.2 – permanent dialogue framework).
• Evaluate the impact and assist in designing policies, programs and institutional options that influence the
incentives for farmers and communities to adopt improved resource management practices (Output 4.2 –
empowering the local communities; Output 4.3 – implementation of best-bet options; Output 6.1 – promotion of
soil fertility; Output 6.3 – promotion of multiple land use systems).
• Promote more efficient drought-management policies and strategies (Output 5.3 – implement policies; Output 6.2
– promotion of integrated land and pastoral spaces).
• Facilitate the exchange of technologies and information among farmers, communities, scientists, development
practitioners and policy makers (Output 7.1 – participation of vulnerable groups; Output 7.2 – Permanent dialogue
framework).
2.3.5 Projected potential impact
The technology will impact on land productivity, income generation, and bio-diversity increase for households and
communities.
The state of implementation of these technologies in 2005 is summarized in the Table 7. There are some levels of
achievements on each of these technologies in 2005.
Table 7. Summary of achievements by technology in 2005 in Niger.
Major
intervention
1. Management
and valorization
of the giraffe
region at Kouré
2. Land
degradation
control at the
DMP sites
DMP achievements in 2005 Targets involved Partners’ inputs
1) Elaboration of 2004 tourist guide (small
and big size) and identification guide of
birds for users
1a) Training of 20 tourist guides
2) Construction of half-moons and other
works on 5,902 ha of degraded land and
plateaus with trees plantation (23 000
plants)
3) transfer of 1900 plants of grafted
Ziziphus
4) Recovery of 10 ha of permanent pond on
cutting of Typha australis
1) 18,212 ha with half-moons and other
land recovery work seeded with forage
grasses on 42000 trenches, 26000 trees
planted and 34 bags of various herbaceous
species used at Baban Rafi and/or Mayahi
More than 700
families of 10 villages
neighboring the
giraffes zones
13000 farm families,
80000 ha
50 fisherman families
More than 10000
persons involved: an
equivalent of 22 rural
markets
Control of giraffe
population (mise en
défens) and help the
guides in putting in place
the infrastructure at
Kouré and Kanaré (by
ECOPAS)
Construction of open
wells and bore holes by
ASGN at Koure zone
and demi-lune on 20 ha
1200 ha mis en défens
treated; managed and
controlled and exploited
by 22 fuel wood rural
markets (36,902 ha)
2) 5416 scions of ziziphus treated in about
200 ha
3) 30 producers trained in RNA at Baban
Rafi
15 families
300 families
4,476 ha restored by
various partners CORAF
(with aid of CRS),
PADL, Mayahi & PAM,
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