Niger

Regreening Africa is building on successful land restoration in the Maradi and Zinder regions of Niger where an estimated 5 million hectares have been restored. To expand this across the country, World Vision Niger is leading a partnership of development, research and government partners.

Highlights

Regreening targets

90,000 hectares
40,000 households

Sites

Simiri

Ouallam

Hamdallaye

Partners

World Vision Niger

CARE Niger

ICRAF Sahel

Government departments (Departmental Directorate for Environment (DDE), Departmental Directorate for Agriculture (DDA), local governments)

Faith-based organizations

Approaches to reversing land degradation

Building the capacity of communities
Supporting the development of agroforestry value chains
Communicating successes to policy-makers to promote further investment in regreening

Project sites

The project will target 40,000 households of smallholder farmers in Simiri, Ouallam and Hamdallaye.

Expected impact

40,000 hectares restored to productivity
90,000 households’ incomes improved
Farmers aware of the benefits of sustainable land management
The rights of women to access and control land is improved
Agroforestry value chains provide increased incomes for farmers
Farmers have useful knowledge, skills and equipment to establish sustainable livelihoods

Contact details

World Vision (WV)

Hamed Constantin Tchibozo
Project Manager
Hamed_Tchibozo@wvi.org

World Agroforestry Centre

Patrice Savadogo
Dryland Agroforestry Systems Scientist
P.Savadogo@cgiar.org

Care

Boube Chayaya Abdoulkadri
Project Manager
BoubeChayaya.AbdoulKadri@care.org

¹ CNEDD, 2005