The goal of the project is to reduce food insecurity and improve livelihoods and reduce poverty among people living in African drylands by restoring degraded land, and returning it to effective and sustainable tree, crop and livestock production, thereby increasing land profitability and landscape and livelihood resilience. The project will achieve its five interrelated objectives (listed below) through the scheme outlined in Figure 1 below:

This Project aims to link with on-going IFAD programmes in each Country,for example:

Kenya

  • KCALP (Kenya Climate Resilient Agricultural ICRISAT) Livelihoods Programme) • IFAD project “The Economic Analysis
  • Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme of Managed Regeneration in the (KCEP) to smallholders in seven ASAL (arid and semi-arid land) counties

Tanzania

  • Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT)
  • IFAD Drylands Initiative - Dodoma region/TBD

Ethiopia

  • IFAD-GEF-AECID funded ‘Community-based Integrated Natural Resources Management Project’ (CBINReMP) - in Gonder
  • Participatory small-scale irrigation development project (PASIDP) in Amhara,Tigray, Oromia, and SNNP Regions
  • Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Program (DRSLP), which has taken over PCDP work on pastoral restoration in Afar and Somali

Mali

  • IFAD project “The Economic Analysis of Managed Regeneration in the Sahel”
  • Fonds du Développement en Zone Sahélienne; Enhancing Agricultural Productivity/Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture (PAPAM/ASAP)

Niger

  • Programme de Développement de l’agriculture familiale (ProDAF) dans les regions de Maradi, Tahoua et Zinder