All African countries are affected by land degradation and in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid regions, desertification is a major development challenge in North Africa, the Sahelian zone and in Southern Africa.
Since the first United Nations Conference on Desertification held in Nairobi in 1977 and the adoption of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification adopted on 17 June 1994, action plans and programs have followed one another and more or less large-scale initiatives have made great progress in understanding the phenomenon.
The affected African countries, mostly French-speaking, with the support of their development partners, have accumulated significant achievements in terms of knowledge and mastery of land protection and restoration techniques. In particular, these techniques have been described and commented on in several reports drawn up within the framework of large-scale initiatives on circum-Saharan Africa (TerrAfrica, WOCAT, SAWAP-BRICKS, LADA, Guide to OIF-IFDD negotiations, etc. ).
It is clear that access to these achievements remains limited to actors such as public structures and civil society associations that operate within the framework of development projects limited in time and space. Indeed, the peasants and peasants as well as the other local actors (peasant cooperatives, local development committees, civil society organizations, etc.) in the remote areas of the territory or with little contact with these administrative structures or still not included in development projects, do not have access to this knowledge and even if they had
access, these reports in this form would not be intelligible to them.
However, the protection of lands that are still threatened by degradation and the recovery of
those already degraded require scaling up and a more generalized handling of these
techniques by peasant men and women regardless of their educational level and the distance at which they operate from administrative centers and public structures.
Thus, and to contribute to the popularization and dissemination of the main SLM techniques, the OIF in collaboration with the CNULD, wishes to develop a toolbox in the form of a mobile application.
Android, free to access, which puts this knowledge within the reach of African farmers in the French-speaking world.
Since the first United Nations Conference on Desertification held in Nairobi in 1977 and the adoption of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification adopted on 17 June 1994, action plans and programs have followed one another and more or less large-scale initiatives have made great progress in understanding the phenomenon.
The affected African countries, mostly French-speaking, with the support of their development partners, have accumulated significant achievements in terms of knowledge and mastery of land protection and restoration techniques. In particular, these techniques have been described and commented on in several reports drawn up within the framework of large-scale initiatives on circum-Saharan Africa (TerrAfrica, WOCAT, SAWAP-BRICKS, LADA, Guide to OIF-IFDD negotiations, etc. ).
It is clear that access to these achievements remains limited to actors such as public structures and civil society associations that operate within the framework of development projects limited in time and space. Indeed, the peasants and peasants as well as the other local actors (peasant cooperatives, local development committees, civil society organizations, etc.) in the remote areas of the territory or with little contact with these administrative structures or still not included in development projects, do not have access to this knowledge and even if they had
access, these reports in this form would not be intelligible to them.
However, the protection of lands that are still threatened by degradation and the recovery of
those already degraded require scaling up and a more generalized handling of these
techniques by peasant men and women regardless of their educational level and the distance at which they operate from administrative centers and public structures.
Thus, and to contribute to the popularization and dissemination of the main SLM techniques, the OIF in collaboration with the CNULD, wishes to develop a toolbox in the form of a mobile application.
Android, free to access, which puts this knowledge within the reach of African farmers in the French-speaking world.
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