R4 Rural Resilience Initiative in Senegal
R4 Rural Resilience Initiative in Senegal aims to improve climate resilience of communities by improving food security and protecting livelihoods of smallholders and rural communities.
Prototype tool can help maintain farmers’ involvement in index insurance projects
Subsistence farming of maize, groundnut, and millet is the dominating means of livelihood in Tambacounda, a region in eastern Senegal about the size of Denmark. Most smallholder farmers in the region do not have irrigation, so their crops are dependent on rainfall, known as rain-fed agriculture. But rainfall can be good on some years and ...