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22 Mar 2016

World Water Day 2016: Water and employment

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Health
Environment
Agriculture & Fisheries
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CILSS
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Held every year on 22 March, World Water Day is dedicated this year to the theme of water and employment. In West Africa as elsewhere, water is a job creator (building and maintenance of infrastructure, distribution, etc.) and is necessary for agriculture (irrigation) as well as for urban development. As a public good, targeted by Sustainable Development Goal 6, access to water and sanitation leads to indirect positive effects on employment, due to its role in the development of human capital. Read on
22 Mar 2016

Surface water in Africa

Topics:
Agriculture & Fisheries
Environment
SWAC:
SWAC
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Few indicators offer a more mixed picture of Africa than that of waterways. Represented according to their permanent or seasonal nature, African waterways seem to cut the continent into a succession of zones of unequal thickness. Read on
15 Feb 2016

Sahel Irrigation Initiative Programme: More, better and faster

Topics:
Agriculture & Fisheries
Climate & Climate change
Environment
Resilience
Sahara-Sahel
Members:
CILSS
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The CILSS is implementing the regional component of an ambitious multi-stakeholder project which aims to more than double the irrigated areas of six Sahelian countries to 1 million hectares by 2020. Funded by the World Bank Group, the Sahel Irrigation Initiative Programme (SIIP) covers Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal. Read on
28 Jan 2016

SWAC presents at rural-urban connections conference

Topics:
Agriculture & Fisheries
Demographic trends
Food security & Nutrition
SWAC:
SWAC
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The University of Copenhagen hosted a conference on "Rural-urban connections in sub-Saharan Africa" from 25-28 January. Participants explored the impacts of mobility and urbanisation on poverty and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Thomas Allen from the Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat at the OECD (SWAC/OECD) was invited to present on key changes in the West African agro-food value chains. Read on
22 Jan 2016

UN humanitarian envoy for the Sahel visits Mali

Country:
Mali
Topics:
Agriculture & Fisheries
Development co-operation
Food security & Nutrition
Resilience
Sahara-Sahel
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The UN Regional Humanitarian Co-ordinator for the Sahel reported progress and remaining security and development challenges following a visit to Mali. Toby Lanzer met with government representatives, local authorities, civil society leaders and humanitarian workers during his 18-22 January mission. He travelled to Gao and Kidal, where he visited aid projects and met people affected by the crisis. Read on
01 Jan 2015

The Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel

Topics:
Agriculture & Fisheries
Climate & Climate change
Livestock
Resilience
Sahara-Sahel
Members:
CILSS
RPCA:
RPCA
SWAC:
SWAC
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Created in 1973 following the terrible drought crisis in the Sahel, the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) is a leading actor in the fight against food and nutrition insecurity and desertification in the Sahel and beyond. Over the past 40 years, it has accumulated a large technical and scientific expertise in the field of food and nutrition security, resilience, natural resource management, climate change adaptation, access to agricultural markets and water management. CILSS has progressively enlarged its geographic coverage to West African coastal countries. Read on

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Disentangling urban and rural food security in West Africa

06 Jun 2018

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The region suffers from the double burden of under- and over-nutrition: While over 58 million people in the region are underweight, some 52 million people, mostly urban dwellers, are either overweight or obese.

Rice, the white gold of West Africa?

01 Feb 2018

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The Dynamiques paysannes magazine, published by SOS Faim Belgium, analyses the rice sector in West Africa from a producers’ perspective.

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Agriculture & Fisheries

World Water Day 2016: Water and employment

Surface water in Africa

Sahel Irrigation Initiative Programme: More, better and faster

SWAC presents at rural-urban connections conference

UN humanitarian envoy for the Sahel visits Mali

The Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel

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Disentangling urban and rural food security in West Africa

Rice, the white gold of West Africa?