This good practice case study shows the experience on vulnerability assessment and community-based initiatives to adapt to Climate Change. The range of actions carried out covers agriculture, ecosystems and water management using a participatory approach and local knowledge to tackle erosion, soil degradation, water shortage and food security in rural villages located in the rural Community of Keur Moussa in Senegal.

This book examins the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa - Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo - and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa's population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater.

ÀMEDIDA QUE ENTRAMOS NA ERA PÓS-2015 DOS OBJETIVOS DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL (ODSS), O MUNDO ENFRENTA INÚMEROS DESAFIOS APARENTEMENTE insuperáveis. A desnutrição não deveria ser um deles. Os países determinados a realizar rápidos avanços na redução da desnutrição podem fazê-lo. Se os governos desejam atingir a meta de ODS de erradicar todas as formas de desnutrição até 2030, eles precisam ter trajetórias claras para seguir. Existem muitas alavancas a se ativar, e este relatório oferece vários exemplos de países que conseguiram realizar isto.

Description of the project: E-FAITOU facilitates access to  solar energy for women farmers in Senegal through an innovative and inclusive concept of mobile multi-service trucks offering  rental of solar equipment and post-harvest processing equipment (dryers, mills, refrigerators), charging stations, and digital  platforms. Women farmers’ chores are alleviated through mecha-nized processing of their harvest, facilitated access to market information and education.

Description of the project: In Saint-Louis, Senegal, fish  smoking, a women’s activity, still uses expensive, high-emitting and polluting sources of energy. This pilot project proposes  a sustainable, economical and ecological energy solution for  a Group of Collective Interest (GIE) consisting of 700 women  fish-processors.

Between February and May 2008, 'hunger riots' erupted in the South - particularly in African countries such as Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Egypt, Algeria, the Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Madagascar and Cameroon. The riots have provided a clear warning that populations can no longer face the increasing prices of basic food products - such as rice, groundnut oil, potatoes and corn.

In most cases, women are not involved in the planning, development or management of marine and coastal resources. Integrating women's and men's usage of these resources into the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs) increases the chance of both women and men participating in and benefiting from the MPA. This case study highlights the attempt to fully involve women in fisheries and coastal resource management in Cayar, Senegal - at the onset, women and men in the community were both involved in the participatory process of establishing the MPA.

Not only is the agricultural sector highly vulnerable to climate change, is it also one of the sectors most distorted and heavily influenced by a wide range of local, regional, national and international trade policies. The increased stress to the system brought about by climate change makes reform in global agricultural policies arguably even more important.

In the last decade, discussions on the effects of climate change have become more intense. They mostly focus on reducing emissions in industrialised nations, but learning how to adapt to climate change is equally important. What lessons can policymakers learn from experiences to date?Most
farmers in Senegal practice rain fed production with basic technologies.
However, since the 1970s, there have been successive droughts, a progressive
reduction in rainfall and soil has become degraded. The government has policies