Project profile — Food and Nutrition Security and Climate Change in the Sahel

• Burkina Faso (22.00%)
• Mali (51.12%)
• Niger (26.88%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Democratic participation and civil society (15150) (8.00%)
• Agricultural land resources:
Agricultural land resources (31130) (22.00%)
Agricultural water resources (31140) (25.00%)
Food crop production (31161) (15.00%)
Agricultural services (31191) (15.00%)
• General Environmental Protection: Environmental policy and administrative management (41010) (15.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (significant objective)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (significant objective)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to improve food and nutrition security for stakeholders, particularly women and youth, from farmers’ organizations in the agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries sectors in targeted communities in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. This project supports the leadership of women and youth in implementing an innovative approach. Project activities include: (1) boosting the climate resilience of the agriculture, agro-forestry, livestock and fisheries sectors through better management of shared natural resources; and (2) strengthening value chains that are especially promising for women and youth, to address intercommunal and transboundary issues. A variety of activities and strategies will be implemented in the Sahel region to address 4 vital and interrelated development challenges: (1) the degradation of natural resources in the face of climate change; (2) the barriers facing stakeholders from various links in the food chain, especially the agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries sectors, in which women and youth are heavily involved; (3) the challenges in terms of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment in accessing and managing productive resources; and (4) the gaps and weaknesses in the national and sub-regional governance of food and nutrition security.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) more sustainably managed natural resources in the targeted communities in the face of climate change; (2) the economic activities carried out by women and men working in the agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries sectors targeted by the project produce higher yields, particularly for women and youth; and (3) better-governed food and nutrition security and more gender-aware at the national, sub-regional and transboundary levels.

Results achieved as of March 2023 include: (1) secured 10.5 hectares of farmland and 32 hectares of market garden land for women project beneficiaries; (2) implemented a joint inclusive natural resource management strategy in 21 communities; (3) 31 commercial contracts signed and formalized by farmers' organizations in market-targeted agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries sectors; and (4) 75 commercial contracts signed and completed by processing units in market-targeted agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries sectors.

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• Related activities: Food and Nutrition Security and Climate Change in the Sahel (SANC2S)