Food and Nutrition Security and Climate Change in the Sahel

This project aims to improve food and nutrition security for stakeholders particularly women and youth from farmers’ organizations in the agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries sectors in targeted communities in Burkina Faso Niger and Mali. This project supports the leadership of women and youth in implementing an innovative approach. Project activities include: (1) boosting the climate resilience of the agriculture agro-forestry livestock and fisheries sectors through better management of shared natural resources; and (2) strengthening value chains that are especially promising for women and youth to address intercommunal and transboundary issues. A variety of activities and strategies will be implemented in the Sahel region to address 4 vital and interrelated development challenges: (1) the degradation of natural resources in the face of climate change; (2) the barriers facing stakeholders from various links in the food chain especially the agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries sectors in which women and youth are heavily involved; (3) the challenges in terms of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment in accessing and managing productive resources; and (4) the gaps and weaknesses in the national and sub-regional governance of food and nutrition security.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) more sustainably managed natural resources in the targeted communities in the face of climate change; (2) the economic activities carried out by women and men working in the agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries sectors targeted by the project produce higher yields particularly for women and youth; and (3) better-governed food and nutrition security and more gender-aware at the national sub-regional and transboundary levels.