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alternative livelihoods and to Output 2 on development and implementation of strategies for conservation,
restoration and sustainable use of degraded agro-ecosystems.
2.4.5 Projected potential impact
• Improvement of food security and reduction of poverty;
• Restoration of vegetation cover and rehabilitation of degraded lands;
• Strengthening of 20 rural communities.
Table 12. Summary of achievements by technology in 2005 in Sénégal
Major intervention DMP achievements in
2005
Targets involved
1. The promotion of
Pomme du Sahel
2. The establishment of
African Market Gardens
and home gardens
3. The establishment and
management of areas of
biodiversity and natural
community reserves
• Producation of 250 000
plants of pomme du sahel
as scions
• Creation of wood parks
for the production of grafts
• Setting up of 20 fruit
orchards for the
production of improved
ziziphus by local ‘jujubiers
surgreffages’
• Production of 50 000
improved ziziphus
• Spread of 1500 pomme
du sahel in African Market
Gardens
• Dissemination of home
gardens
• Dissemination of African
Market gardens with the
pilot women groups of
Dya and Djilass
• Development and
implementation of
management plans for
sustainable ecological,
socioeconomic and
cultural advantages of
protected areas in Dya,
Sambandé, Paoskoto, Keur
Baka and Mbadakhoun
• Establishment of four
protected areas covering
3300 ha
20 farming communities
within the DMP target zone
• 38 home gardens have
been established in three
farming communities
integrating plantations of
Moringa oleifera, Cajanus
cajan and vegetable crops;
these home gardens provide
incomes of $100 to 105 per
season on 300 sq m
• Five African market
gardens in the farming
communities of Dya,
Thiombies and Ngandas
• 9996 ha under mises en
défens targeted with
concerted and consensual
management
• 3300 ha of protected areas
integrated
• In Sambandé local people
earn $5000 from produce;
• The use of non-shrub
products women groups
incomes of $3000-4000 a
year
Partners’ inputs
• Rehabilitation of three
village nurseries
• Identification of pilot
farmers with the support
of the National
Agricultural and Rural
Council of the Ministry of
Agriculture
• Contribution to the
production of 50000
plantations of root stocks
of ziziphus by the forest
service (Ministry of
Environment) in nurseries
of Kaolack, Thièses and
Faticks
• Production of 1000
plantations of ziziphus by
women groups of Dya
• Identification of the
pilot women groups with
the support of the
ANCAR of the Ministry
of Agriculture
• Contributions of ONGS
team Sahel 3000, team
ANCAR and partners in
rehabilitation of sites,
follow-up and team
assessment of activities
• The Ministry of
Environment and different
partners (ONGS, local
groups) contributed to the
identification of sites,
facilitation and set up of
strategies, management,
follow-up assessment as
well as backing of local
actor capacities
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