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The Fakara: a semi-arid agro-ecosystem under stress

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Title The Fakara: a semi-arid agro-ecosystem under stress
 
Creator Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
Ayantunde, Augustine A.
 
Description Besides the participation of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in the planning
workshops and discussions that led to the writing up of the Desert Margins Program proposal, ILRI
contribution to the first phase of the DMP-GEF program from July 2002 to June 2004 was centered on
the development of methodologies to assess the natural resources of a Sahelian agro-ecosystem under
stress, diagnosis of the status and trends of the productivity and the bio-diversity of the agro-ecosystem
and performing preliminary tests of alternative management (DMP,2002). These activities are taking
place in Fakara, a natural region, in an administrative district (canton) of western Niger, taking stock of
the wealth of knowledge on the functioning of this semi-arid agro-ecosystem that resulted from a series of extensive studies carried out in this site from the 80’s onward. These studies were devoted to the soils, climate, hydrology, vegetation components, fauna, crops, livestock and farming systems of a small natural region of western Niger. This research background is summarized in the following introductory paragraphs. Then, the document reports more specifically on the research by International Livestock Research Institute in collaboration with the National Institute of Agriculture Research (INRAN), theInternational Crop Institutes for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and also with the regional Center AGRHYMET and ‘ Projet Intrants’, a rural development project developed by FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture Development of the Republic of Niger.
 
Date 2010-05-18T20:31:28Z
2010-05-18T20:31:28Z
2004-03-10
 
Type Report
 
Identifier Hiernaux, P.; Ayantunde, A. 2004. The Fakara: a semi-arid agro-ecosystem under stress. Report of research activities, First phase (July 2002-June 2004) of the DMP-GEF Program (GEF/2711-02-4516). Nairobi (Kenya): ILRI.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/1550
 
Language en
 
Publisher ILRI