Strengthening education on climate smart and saline agriculture by training teachers to enhance food security
This project will have an effect on the following priority areas (mentioned in the Country Focus Document for Senegal):
-Food security: receiving training in the areas of Climate Smart Agriculture and Saline agriculture will help us ensuring food security (now and in the future). The area we are working in, the Casamance, is important for the food supply of Senegal.
-Climate & Environment: climate change is creating challenges for farmers in the Casamance area, as the rain season is becoming shorter, but also less constant. As a result salinization is becoming more of a problem. The topics of this training will help us deal with these changing climatic and environmental conditions.
-Employability of youth and Private sector development: In the training, teaching staff is being trained on new subjects and skills. That improves the employability of the students that are being trained by the staff part of this TMT. Entrepreneurship is part of the training. The participants of this TMT will help farmers and students to start up their own agri-businesses, which will increase the employment and development of the private sector in the area.