An Overview Of Our Solution
Project Creation of Agribusiness Cluster Fisheries and Technological Innovations
The objective of the CAPIT project is to establish a concentration of businesses and institutions within an Equal Opportunity Office in an agricultural production area. The clusters cover a set of micro and small businesses and related industries for the competitiveness of its host department. The action involves networking providers of specialized products (training, standardization, packaging, machinery, services and providers of specialized women's promotion infrastructures) and promoters of local entrepreneurship, and in particular actors of youth entrepreneurship And / or women.
Who is this solution impacting?
Community Type
Rural
Additional Information
- Population Impacted:
- Continent: Africa
General Information
Organization type
Other
Ecosystem (select all that apply)
Forests
Freshwater
Oceans/Coasts
Population impacted
15000
Challenge
Size of agricultural area
200 ha
Production quantity
3000 tonnes
People employed
600 Jeunes ou femmes
Solution
Describe your solution
This project seeks to ensure sustainable harvesting for food security while restoring biodiversity to degraded agricultural land. The populations will be able to initiate solutions based on nature: polinization, restoration of hedges to combat erosion, aquaculture, green manure production
Implementation
Describe your implementation
Specific activities are the identification and networking of actors, the creation of a pilot farm and the reinforcement of the capacities of the targets: vunable layers (young people and women).
The involvement of the regional agency and local authorities is the specific advantage of this solution, which is based on the social mobilization of the leaders in order to provoke the involvement of young people and women in the creation of green self-employment. Citizen education and support for the marketing of farm products are the key factors for success. The constraints of access to the financing for the acquisition of irrigation system will be palliated by the accompanying of the project. And the improvement of the living conditions of the beneficiaries will lead to the adhesion of the population to renovate their cultural practices
External connections
The main partners are the Education and Training Unit of the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, the regional development agency of kaolack, the microfinance structures;
These structures will be enrolled in a multi-stakeholder network or they will interact with civil society actors and local businesses
Results
What is the environmental or ecological challenge you are targeting with your solution?
The groundnut basin of Senegal is located in central Senegal. It was once an important agricultural territory for Senegal. For decades, extensive cultivation has resulted in land depletion, which has contributed heavily to the increase in poverty in the region, including the rural exodus and the immigration of young people, including young girls.
This project seeks to introduce new agricultural techniques based on the irrigation of small family farms through the use of renewable energies. In addition, the project will work to set up a platform of local initiatives to boost local economic development by networking local actors. The objective is to accompany them to create value chains in the sectors that constitute their local wealth.
It is a question of working to make the emergence of micro and small industries or companies that would help to fix young people in their territories to emerge through the strengthening of production capacities.
Describe the context in which you are operating
The action consists of creating a network of 200 sustainable development actors within an Agrobusinness Cluster for Fisheries and Innovations. Wealth creation aims at green growth through energy supplies for household lighting, irrigation of small family farms and modernization of handicrafts. The idea is to establish local and international solidarity for development through energy, with the involvement of local authorities in the appropriation of the COP21 agreements.
How did you impact natural resource use and greenhouse gas emissions?
In kaolack, fields are openfieds. With the project, we will introduce the bocages to fight against soil erosion. In addition, we will promote the aboricutures and the creation of village woods
Language(s)
French
Water
The population adopts new agricultural practices by irrigating their farm with pumps that uses renewable energies
Food Security/Nutrition
The population will be trained in a diversified production in which horticulture and planting of fruit trees contribute to the eradication of hunger and to the health of the population
Economic/Sustainable Development
The emergence of an ecosystem of local enterprises facilitates the emergence of a resilient community whose attention to the sustainable management of natural resources has improved
Climate
The energy efficiency and the use of low-energy materials make beneficiary organizations saving on greenhouse gas emissions
Sustainability
The economic sustainability of our solution. Relies on self-financing through services rendered to the beneficiaries. Private or public subsidies support the start-up of the activity, but automation is envisaged on the revenues derived from the provision of services and the membership fees of the local initiative platform
Return on investment
The cost of start-up activities is estimated at $ 50,000. We solicited and acquired a portion of the financing
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Replication and Scale
How could we successfully replicate this solution elsewhere?
This action stems from the experience of the project SOLIDE Banlieue whose annual budget 30000 € but the experimentation has concerned the schools and college where we develop micro-gardening and the recycling of waste. The aim is to extend the experience gained in schools