Senegal%20situation

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Senegal situation

• Senegal is located in the western point of
  Africa.
• Surface area of 197,000km2, and a population of
  10 million estimated to be growing at a rate of
  2.7 annually.
• The country is located in the Sahelian region,
  hard hit by many years of drought
• More than 53 of the population lives in rural
  areas
• Senegal has about 6.2 million hectares of forests
  and woodlands that constitute 32.2 of the total
  land area in the mainland.

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Senegal situation

• Two seasons
•        Long dry season ( six to 9 months depend
  on the region (November- June)
•       Short rain season ( three to six , June
  October)
• The average annual rate of deforestation is 80
  000 ha per year ( 0.7 ) or in year 2001 the
  objective of the national plan was to plant 70
  000 ha

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Senegal difficulties with desertification and
deforestation

• Climate obstacles
•   Wood fuel and charcoal consumption in both
  urban and rural areas is really important,
  Energie consumption is 60 ensure by wood fuel.
  Households energy need is depend at 90 on wood
  fuel. And if we considered, the level of growth
  of population, the need increase fastly.

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Senegal difficulties with desertification and
deforestation

• So for a long time Senegal will depend on
  forest resource to satisfy his energy needs
• Residual forest resources are submitted to
  human pressure in particular in the south region
  where we have actually the residual natural
  forest
• Senegal Export peanuts it represent the second
  largest export earner in the country. Such kind
  of extensive monoculture crops degraded lands and
  creates also a pressure on forest lands

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Senegal expectations from CDM sink projects

• -  Encourage forest plantation in rural zone by
  involving local population in the process,
• Encourage agroforestry practices
• -         Allow local communities to benefit from
  forestry project, as they participate on the
  international efforts to limit global warming
  (equity concerns)
• -         Use cdm implementation to educate
  population on climate change adverse
  effects       

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Senegal expectations from CDM sink projects

• Encourage a sustainable forest management
  approach in rural and urban zone
•          Brake the process of rural depopulation
  
•       Allow all UN countries, to have the
  opportunity to develop a CDM project.

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Needs

•      
•   New conception of forest management/training of
  forester
• and forest principal actors
•         Review the system of data collection and
  archive of data/database/inventory
•          New instruments to measure and monitor
  carbon in the
• soil and the biomass (spectrophotometer)
•        Develop pilot forest project regarding
  CDM
• approach