Our mission
The World Food Programme’s Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme addresses food insecurity, land degradation and climate change across Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. Through participatory watershed planning, it combines ecosystem restoration with interventions that strengthen food security, nutrition and community resilience.
Activities include rehabilitating degraded land using water-harvesting and soil conservation techniques, constructing infrastructure to improve water retention and agricultural productivity, and supporting smallholder farmers, nutrition initiatives and school feeding programmes. By improving access to natural resources and strengthening livelihoods, the programme also helps reduce tensions between communities, particularly farmers and herders.
To date, the initiative has rehabilitated over 300,000 hectares of land and benefited more than 4 million people, demonstrating how integrated landscape restoration can strengthen food and nutrition security while building climate resilience for both people and ecosystems.
Implementers
Classification
- Farmlands
- Grasslands, shrublands and savannahs
- Peatlands
