Jane Goodall Institute

Published purpose

The project aims to improve the resilience of rural communities to climate change, especially for women, in the Kedougou region of Senegal. Project activities include: (1) providing training to 340 farmers from 17 villages on improving planting techniques and gender; (2) providing them with fonio (a type of cereal) seeds and agricultural inputs, including innovative soil nutrient field test kits; (3) training women-led cooperatives on how to create and market biomass briquettes (for fuel), and use grain/cereal husking machines; (4) training community members on forest product harvesting and bush fire prevention; (5) seeding 18,000 indigenous plants; and (6) promoting agroforestry and the use of an indigenous tree species to enhance forest carbon sinks. The project is implemented by the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada in partnership with Instituto Jane Goodall, the Réserve Naturelle Communautaire de Dindéfélo [Dindéfélo Community Natural Reserve] and the Association Nébéday.