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consolidated teaching guide on the prevention and management of conflicts in connection with mobile farming
The Integrated Farming Project and Pastoralism and Secure in West Africa (PEPISAO) undertook the design of a teaching guide, for the prevention and management of conflicts related to mobile livestock. This document will provide orderly and practical content for stakeholders in particular, technicians accompanying projects as well as direct stakeholders in the field (POs, transhumance committees, etc.). It should be remembered that the objective of PEPISAO is "to reduce conflicts linked to pastoralism by initiating the construction of a shared regional vision on the different ruminant
farming methods ".
Evaluating Groundwater Storage Change and Recharge Using GRACE Data: A Case Study of Aquifers in Niger, West Africa
Accurately assessing groundwater storage changes in Niger is critical for long-term water
resource management but is difficult due to sparse field data. We present a study of groundwater
storage changes and recharge in Southern Niger, computed using data from NASA Gravity Recovery
and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission. We compute a groundwater storage anomaly estimate
by subtracting the surface water anomaly provided by the Global Land Data Assimilation System
(GLDAS) model from the GRACE total water storage anomaly. We use a statistical model to fill
gaps in the GRACE data. We analyze the time period from 2002 to 2021, which corresponds to the
life span of the GRACE mission, and show that there is little change in groundwater storage from
2002–2010, but a steep rise in storage from 2010–2021, which can partially be explained by a period
of increased precipitation. We use the Water Table Fluctuation method to estimate recharge rates
over this period and compare these values with previous estimates. We show that for the time range
analyzed, groundwater resources in Niger are not being overutilized and could be further developed
for beneficial use. Our estimated recharge rates compare favorably to previous estimates and provide
managers with the data required to understand how much additional water could be extracted in a
sustainable manner.
Forum 2024 2024 Forum on Seasonal Forecasts of Agro-hydro-climatic characteristics of the rainy season for Sudanian and Sahelian zones of West Africa (PRESASS, 2024)
A generally wet 2024 rainy season is expected over the Sahelian strip, with late to average onset dates in the Central Sahel and early to average in the Western and Eastern Sahel, late to average cessationdates, short dry spells at the beginning of the season in the Western Sahel and average to long dry spells in the Eastern Sahel and overall long towards the end of the season across the entire strip Sahelian region, and overall above-average flows in the main river basins of the Sahel.
Informative directory on regulations an agreements related to the prevention and management of pastoral conflicts in the Sahel and West Africa Volume 1 : ECOWAS and central couloir country of trahsnumance (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Niger et Togo)
Pastoralism and transhumance are livestock production practices in Africa in general and West Africa in particular. Moreover, continental, sub-regional and national organisations consider that pastoralism is useful for preserving and increasing livestock production. On the whole, this practice is faced with various difficulties, notably clashes between the different users of natural resources. In order to maintain social peace, which contributes to the promotion of regional development and integration, continental, supranational and national bodies have enacted legal texts and policy guidelines to enable pastoralists to carry out their activities in peace alongside the other economic actors. As a reminder, it can be noted that "a regulation is a legal concept that covers a set of legal instruments in the form of laws, decisions, rules and regulations, and other legal texts that frame a social and economic activity, etc. It is, in fact, about subjecting an activity to regulations”. Regulations govern activities related to the movement of people and their economic activities. To this end, the African Union, ECOWAS, UEMOA, States and communities, through legislative and regulatory measures, have laid down strong legal and institutional foundations to facilitate the movement of animals in their sub-regional and national areas. Between 1998 and 2004, ECOWAS, UEMOA and other partners adopted several legal texts and policy documents to regulate cross-border transhumance and reduce conflicts between farmers and herders, and then to protect public health, in the light of the global health environment (resurgence of animal diseases transmissible to humans). In order to control transhumance and reduce conflicts between herders and farmers, the States have adopted, since independence, laws that have been adapted to regional regulations. Despite this body of legislation, conflicts remain and the management of transhumance is still a major concern in the States and at the cross-border level. In order to contribute to better application of the regulations, the Integrated and Secure Livestock Farming and Pastoralism Project (PEPISAO), financed by the Agence française de développement (French Development Agency) (AFD) and coordinated by ECOWAS, which has delegated the implementation of Components 1 and 2 to CILSS, is working to promote the most relevant texts and also to facilitate their accessibility. The elaboration of the information directory of regulations required a process that helped to identify regulations relating to the prevention and management of pastoral conflicts with regard to the measures to be taken before going for, during and after transhumance, procedures for settling cases of field damage, natural resource management, access to resources, etc. The main regional and national texts have been compiled to extract relevant information to facilitate accessibility, better understanding and application by field actors