The objective of project 2 is to enhance MPs and other stakeholders’ dialogue through meetings at local and national levels and o capitalize on their understanding of the importance of community rights through a white paper on land and forest tenure advocating for land and forest tenure’s inclusion in the upcoming forestry and land laws.

The objective of project 3 is to advocate for the active involvement of the Cameroon coalition members in Cameroon’s REDD-RPP to ensure that issues of tenure and rights are mainstreamed into REDD and climate change mechanisms while empowering local stakeholders via meetings on REDD concepts and processes to benefit the poor.

(i) Create employment and increase income from Jatropha among farmes in Mali(ii) Provide a basis to enhance local development upstream in the value chain of oil from Jatropha curcas by contributing to a local, secure and import-independent supply of energy, (iii) Improve sequestration of carbon in Jatropha plantings and offset carbon emissions by substituting fossil sources of energy with biomass based energy from Jatropha curcas to mitigate climate change, (iv) Provide suitable genetic resources of Jatropha curcas for different climates to optimize production and to enable adaptation of the energy plantings to climate change, and (v) Suggest possible alternative species to Jatropha curcas for oil production under arid and semi-arid conditions.

This will not only provide a forum for collective action, but lay a strong foundation for enhanced natural resource management that will ultimately lead to poverty alleviation, food security and sustainability of natural resources.

This workshop is also expected to be a springboard for broader future collaborative research and capacity building among Sahelian countries as well as the research communities in Sahelian countries.

Specific workshop objectives includes inter alia:

1. Provide a forum for political decision makers, scientists, civil society and others operating in the Sahel and interested in the subject to share knowledge, lessons and experiences based on research in the state of forestry governance across different Sahelian countries;

2. Start off processes for reviewing or building on ongoing review initiatives of the forestry laws as well as jointly explore opportunities for enhancing dialogue and negotiations between local communities and foresters;

3. Identify best practices for knowledge-action based on ICRAF’s and partners’ research;

4. Identify best practices, methodologies and approaches to enhance evolution, recognition, formulation, adoption and integration of bylaws and/or local conventions into statutory texts for improved management of agroforests;

5. Share experiences on how to integrate community rights with decentralization in Sahelian countries;6. Develop and agree on a roadmap for reviews of the forestry laws and collective action among Sahelian countries; and

7. Work towards the development of a knowledge network for sharing lessons and experiences among communities and foresters across Sahelian countries.

As major outputs of the workshop, participants will be invited to contribute to:

1. A workshop proceedings and a special issue of a journal or a book;

2. A policy brief for circulation among policy shapers and decision makers;

3. Tools and approaches for forestry laws review;

4. A road map for reviews of the forestry laws and collective action among Sahelian countries; and

5. Follow-up and country specific facilitation of negotiations and policy reviews

• Test and identify re-forestation and agroforestry technologies adapted to conditions of Kouroumary area and rural community needs.

• Develop strategies for high quality germplam production for Kouroumary area

• Production of training and dissemination material in French and Bambara for extension officers.

It aims to develop climate change scenarios for the next 100 years on a regional/local scale for Sub-Saharan Africa (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia) and their impact on land use systems. The project aims at achieving ready-to-use scenarios and recommendations for agroforestry and silvopastoral ecosystems on a highly-resolved spatial scale. Ocean-atmosphere coupled global circulation models (GCM) will be used as the basis for downscaling onto a regional and local level. Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Transfer(SVAT)-models for a plot scale will be used to simulate competition of plants for space, PAR radiation, water and nutrients.

The capacity of the plant to cope with different environments will be estimated by measured and modeled leaf water potential.Present vegetation structure and function will be determined by means of remote- ensing and ground based measurements. Their future distribution will be derived from their habitat requirements and climate scenarios. Current forms of agriculture and livestock husbandry practices will be evaluated in the specific regions and confronted with future climate scenario conditions.

The project is structured into the following eight subprojects keeping modelling and measurement components as key categories.

Subproject I: Present and future climate at a local scale;

Subproject II: 3D SVAT-models for quantifying interaction of multiple plants;

Subproject III: Energy balance model for ruminants in their outdoor environment;Subproject IV: Large-scale distribution of vegetation structures;

Subproject V: Small-scale structures of vegetation;

Subproject VI: Physiological parameters of woody and crop plants;

Subproject VII: 3-D-radiation field in different land use systems; and

Subproject VIII: Animal husbandry, fodder plants and nutrient budgets.Outputs for this project correspond to the above sub-projects. They are as follows.

Output 1: Atmospheric models for short term forecasts and long term projections for regional and local scales;

Output 2: Adaptation of SVAT-models to local vegetation types

Output 3: Energy budget model for ruminant units in their different environments

Output 4: Digital maps of vegetation distribution and environmental factors on larger scales

Output 5: Digital maps of biophysical structures of individual plants on a small scale

Output 6: Data base of leaf water potentials, of sap flows and of photosynthetic respond curves for different plants

Output 7: Set of values for 3D-short and long wave radiation within vegetation types; and

Output 8: Data base of energy of fodder-plants and the contribution of excrements to soil fertilization