Mopti

Ménaka

Koulikoro

Tombouctou

Bamako

Sikasso

Kayes

Ségou

Kidal

Taoudénit

Mali

SURAGGWA’s objective is to enhance ecological and climate resilience across Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal, while substantially increasing carbon sequestration through landscape restoration.

The Sahelian countries within the Great Green Wall (GGW) region are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climate change. Their economies largely depend on agriculture, livestock, and forestry, with over 70 per cent of rural communities reliant on rainfed agriculture. Climate change further exacerbates ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, and the vulnerability of agro-silvopastoral landscapes, threatening food security and the sustainability of local livelihoods.

The programme will restore degraded agro-silvo-pastoral landscapes to build climate resilience and mitigation capacities, develop climate-resilient, low-emission Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) value chains to enhance market access and financial inclusion for vulnerable communities, and strengthen GGW institutions to improve coordination, monitoring, resource mobilisation, and knowledge management

The programme supports the African Union-led Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative by enhancing ecological and climate resilience. It contributes to the GGW goals of restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land, creating 10 million new jobs and sequestering 250 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030 through large-scale land restoration efforts.

To increase resilience and strengthen livelihoods of targeted communities in the Sahel through the adoption of climate-smart landscape restoration practices.

Kayes-Yelimane transmission line project implemented by African Development Bank (AFDB)

Mali ranks 11th most vulnerable and 23rd least prepared for climate adaptation among 192 countries (ND-GAIN index). Droughts affect 400,000 people, while floods impact 500,000 across the country yearly. Reliance on subsistence farming worsens vulnerability, with climate change threatening crop yields, fodder, and food security. Though emissions are rising, Mali contributes just 0.01 per cent globally. Without adaptation investment, people’s livelihoods and food security are at risk.

The project's objective is to improve the food, nutrition and water security of smallholder farmers in five highly climate-vulnerable regions of Mali.  It will focus on increased access to and use of inclusive climate-resilient production practices and technologies in agricultural and agroforestry systems.  The project will increase smallholder farmers’ awareness of climate risks and their capacity to adopt Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) techniques, create sustainable markets for CSA and agroforestry products and strengthen the institutional capacities of government entities and communities at local, regional and national levels.

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