Farming and livestock production in the Sahel : merging the two solutions

French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Fin des deux solitudes de l'élevage et de l'agriculture au SahelArabic version available in IDRC Digital LibraryThe women of Toukounous, a small town 20 km from Niamey, are participating in a new departure from the agricultural history of Niger and the Sahel. Only now is integrated farming and livestock production coming to their region, and it represents an essential step toward raising and sustaining agricultural yields

Fighting desertification and poverty : it's the same war

French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Lutte contre la désertification et contre la pauvreté : même combatArabic version available in IDRC Digital LibraryThe people of the Sahel — that huge region stretching along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert — are still striving to recover from the fallout of the terrible droughts that have afflicted the area since 1973. Drought has shattered the momentum of socioeconomic development in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. According to researchers with Burkino Faso’s Institut de l’environnement et de recherches agricoles, “Rural men and women are now struggling to survive in a land that is exhausted, denuded, desiccated, and swept away by the wind and water.