The main objective of the project was the monitoring and management of coastal risks in West Africa and the promotion of “soft solutions” for preventing and protecting against these risks, through the consolidation of a regional cooperation mechanism for generating and disseminating information...

Typha australis is a fast-growing reed which has been proliferating in the Senegal basin at increased rate following construction of the Diama anti-salt dam in 1988. This proliferation raises serious issues for public health, water security, natural risk prevention, and maintaining biodiversity...

The artisanal fishing industry plays a very important role in Senegal. The green energy operator, Valorem, came up with the idea of developing and commissioning a demonstrator – CryoSolar – to meet this challenge. This standalone solar-powered cold room is installed in a container and can be...

Global warming is impacting ecosystems and biodiversity globally, but particularly so in arid regions. The Avaclim project, supported by the FFEM and the...

To address the large number of approaches to implementing pastoral units, in 2017 Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières, under the co-ordination of the Ministry of Livestock and Animal Production, compiled a Guide to implementing and managing Pastoral Units in Senegal. This...

Pastoral livestock is essential to the survival of communities, as it allows them to develop and maintain otherwise unusable land. This is the situation in the Ferlo region of north-eastern Senegal, where most of the population depends on herding and transhumance for their food and other needs....

This study investigated whether gastrointestinal helminth (GIH) assemblages changed over time in native (Mastomys erythroleucus) and/or invasive (M. m. domesticus) rodent populations sampled at an invasion front, and whether these potential changes may be associated to the invasion success of...