Context

The Sahel is subject to periods of drought and desertification, combined with natural resource degradation, which is increasing the poverty and vulnerability of local communities. To address these constraints, the countries in the Sahel have launched a strategy to fight desertification and rehabilitate degraded soils. The Great Green Wall, or African Initiative of the Great Green Wall, is a project developed by the African Union to tackle the adverse socioeconomic and environmental effects of soil degradation and desertification in the Sahara and Sahel.

Project leader

Mariama Dalanda DIALLO, Teacher-researcher, Section Productions Végétales et Agronomie, UFR des Sciences Agronomiques, de l’Aquacultures et des Technologies Alimentaires (S2ATA), Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal

Participants

• Prof Aliou Guissé, Département de Biologie Végétale, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, B.P. 5005, Dakar-Fann, Senegal. Observatoire Homme Milieu Tessékéré (Ferlo)
• Prof Aliou Diop, Section Mathématiques Appliquées, UFR des Sciences Appliquées et Technologie, Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal

Expected results

• Knowledge of the floristic diversity of herbaceous plants with and without cover
• Knowledge of the quantity of herbaceous biomass
• Knowledge of the quantity of senescent leaves that fall at each time of year