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Saint-Louis, Nov. 28 (APS) – Climate change is a threat to the "productive capacity of traditional agriculture" practiced in the Senegal River Delta, warned Wednesday the rector of the University Gaston Berger (UGB ) of St. Louis, Professor Ousmane Thiaré.
In this "type of traditional agriculture very little mechanized or irrigated, any variation in rainfall can jeopardize the entirety of crops," he warned.
"Floods, droughts and heatwaves are causing crop losses that affect food security," he said.
He was speaking at the launch of the "Innovacsa" platform of the project "Food Security and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Agricultural Systems of Small Producers of the Senegal River Delta" (ACSA).
According to the Rector of the UGB, the major players in research in agronomy, grassroots community organizations and technical partners gathered around this project will reflect on the problem of adaptation of women farmers in the Senegal River Valley to the effects of climate change.
Professor Thiaré hailed the commitment of the UFR agro (Training and Research Unit) of the UGB that is carrying this project. He also praised the involvement of the teacher-researchers, to accompany this project.
He pointed out that this should make it possible to find climate change adaptation strategies for the benefit of women's groups in the seven localities targeted by the project.
The coordinator of ACSA, Professor Seydou Norou Sall, reminded that this project aims to create a participatory dynamic between the actors of agricultural development, producers, traders and decision makers, to "co-build solutions to face to climate change ".
The project, he added, is aimed at women's groups involved in agriculture, from the localities of Diama, Ross-Bethio, Gandiaye, Diagambal, Mboundoum, Potou and Gandiole, in the delta.
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