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Regreening projects
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Green Desert Initiative phase II, Mali, 2022-2025
This is the Turing Foundation's second donation towards the Green Desert Initiative of Partners Pays-Dogon. The first projects supported by Turing were focused on countering environmental degradation: planting trees, planting Euphorbia on dunes to stabilise them, preventing erosion using dams made of sandbags, making agreements with farmers to protect areas from tree felling, trees on farmers' fields, tree nurseries, wood-saving ovens, teaching people how to harvest wood without killing trees - everything to kickstart regeneration. Restoration is still the core of the Green Desert Initiative; it has been expanded over the years with projects focused on food supply - in this region that is dependent on natural conditions. Market and school gardens, coupled with education, are used to disseminate ecological techniques amongst the people; nurseries not only help restoration but increase economic activity. The Turing Foundation is contributing €150,000 for three years. Turing's contribution has enabled various subprojects to be implemented, creates continuity for the local organisation and expands the impact of past achievements.
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 Green Desert Initiative phase II, Mali |
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Restoring Koulikoro, Mali, 2019-2022
Tree Aid helps villagers in arid areas of Africa unlock the potential of trees to combat poverty and protect nature. The Turing Foundation supported one of their regreening projects in Mali in the period 2016-2018, with good results. With its local partner Association for the Development and Promotion and Training Activities (ADAF/Gallé), Tree Aid is restoring 2,000 ha of degraded land by planting trees and promoting natural regeneration. In close collaboration with the community, they are setting up two nurseries and will eventually plant 14,000 saplings. Farmers are being trained in better land management techniques, such as protecting shoots, better pruning techniques, erosion resistant stone walls and water management. Wood-saving ovens and vegetable gardens are expected to reduce pressure on the ecosystem. The Turing Foundation is contributing € 105,000 towards this project (of which € 25,000 in 2021).
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 Restoring Koulikoro, Mali |
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Green Desert Initiative, Pays Dogon, Mali, 2018-2020
The Partners Pays Dogon foundation (PPD) , in collaboration with its local implementing organisation Association Dogon Initiative, is committed to helping the Dogon, an ethnic group that lives around the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali. They endeavour to improve the quality of life for the Dogon with projects in the fields of education, desert greening, water, women, health and culture. In this project PPD wants to stimulate the natural vegetation growing on the Sahel soils by means of landscape zoning in order to reverse land degradation, decrease erosion and increase soil fertility. Natural windbreaks and planting 27ha of bushes a year helps stabilise dunes and enables water to sink into the ground. Forest zones are being created and fenced off from grazing cattle, 30 farmers grow ten trees every two years with the tools they have been provided with, and women establish food gardens where they learn to cultivate a variety of crops. The Turing Foundation is contributing €94,000 towards this project (of which, €30,000 in 2020).
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 Green Desert Initiative, Pays Dogon, Mali |
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Regreening projects, Mopti to Segou, Mali, 2015-2018
Tree Aid helps villagers in arid areas in Africa unlock the potential of trees to combat poverty and protect nature. Together with local conservation organisations, such as the Malian Association for the Conservation of Wildlife and the Environment (AMCFE), Tree Aid wants to work via subprojects in order to green a 400 km long corridor between Mopti and Segou. This subproject involves nearly 1,000 farmers in 15 villages in the municipalities Samine and Sakoiba. Farmers learn to manage their land better, which increases tree density per hectare and improves agricultural productivity and soil quality. The Turing Foundation is contributing €125,000 towards this next phase in the green corridor in Mali (of which, €35,000 in 2018).
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 Villagers planting trees in Mopti region, Mali |
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Trees for the Sahel, Regreening North Burkina Faso 2015-2018
Tiipaalga was founded in 2006 by the Swiss organisation newTree and is its local partner in Burkina Faso,. The organisation wants to green the Sahel and which requires interventions that are implemented in cooperation with the village communities. Twenty areas of three hectares are fenced off each year in order to give the local environment a chance to regenerate. These scattered green oases have positive carry-over effects in adjacent regions. In addition, 500 hectares of land is being sustainably managed using assisted natural regeneration' methods, which include pruning techniques and contour ridges to counteract erosion The community is being trained in income generating activities that do not consume wood, such as producing honey, nuts and fodder, and each year 10,000 additional women cook on wood-saving ovens. The Turing Foundation is contributing €150,000 in the coming years to expand this work (of which, €25.000 in 2018).
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 Trees for the Sahel, Regreening North Burkina Faso 2015-2018 |
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Regreening the Sahel, Dogonkiria en Soucoucoutane, Niger, 2017
BothEnds and CRESA have been working together since 2010 to encourage farmers to grow trees and plants on their land. The Turing Foundation has contributed € 268,000 towards this project since 2010. To cover the period until Both Ends has finalised arrangements for follow-up financing, the Turing Foundation will contribute up to € 35,000 towards this project in 2017.
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 Regreening the Sahel, Dogonkiria en Soucoucoutane, Niger |
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Regreening the Sahel, Dogonkiria en Soucoucoutane, Niger, 2015-2016
BothEnds and CRESA have been working together since 2010 to encourage farmers to grow trees and plants on their land. 'Farmer Managed Natural Regreening' is a cost effective method, and the initiative has resulted in the regeneration of 621,000 hectares of land. Work in Dogonkiria and Soucoucoutane will be intensified over the next years, which will result in the re-greening of another 500 hectares. In addition, the local capacity is strengthened so that local support can be further increased independently, training can be provided on management and developments monitored and assessed. The Turing Foundation is contributing €80,000 in 2015, which is more than half of the total budget. The Turing Foundation has already supported Phase I of the project with €118,000 and Phase II with €70,000.
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Regreening the Sahel, Dogonkiria en Soucoucoutane, Niger |
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Sustainable conservation and food security for 20 villages, Région Maritime, Togo, 2011-2014
The R.C. Het Maagdenhuis Foundation has been working with CREMA (Centre de Recherche et d'Essai de Modeles d'Autopromotion) in Togo since 2003. Now the project wants to start training 4,000 farmers in the very poor southeast of Togo how to use organic farming methods to improve the yield and storage of corn. On top of that, a 125-acre area will be reforested with a total of 125,000 trees and shrubs (macuna and cajanus cajan) that enrich the soil. The project facilitates extra capacity from CREMA itself and extra attention will be paid to land use by and land transfer to women. Eventually, nature will be restored and protected, and the life standard in 20 villages will be structurally improved. The Turing Foundation contributed € 33,000 to the project's pilotphase and will also finance the second phase based on those results. The Turing Foundation contributes € 55,000 to the second part of the project (€ 10.000 in 2014), with the R.C. Het Maagdenhuis Foundation as co-financer.
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 Sustainable conservation and food security, Région Maritime, Togo |
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Sustainable Management and Recovery Sahel Ecosystem, Burkina Faso, 2014-2015
Tiipaalga in Burkina Faso was founded in 2006 and is the local counterpart of the Swiss foundation newTree. The organisation wants to create a green Sahel by improving the fertility of the soil, preventing erosion, and reintroducing indigenous trees. Their goals require interventions that are carried out with help of the village communities. For example, plots of 3 ha are fenced off so nature will have a chance to regenerate. People are also taught about sustainable (farming) techniques and environmentally-friendly activities that earn them a living, including beekeeping and growing animal feed. Women are taught to make, use and maintain wood-saving ovens. The Turing Foundation will be contributing € 28,000 to expand the project to 5 villages.
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 Training in sustainable organic farming, Burkina Faso |
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Reforestation and sustainable management of ecosystems in the Kwilu district, D.R. Congo, 2011-2013
Congodorpen (formerly known as CDI Bwamanda) is a Belgian NGO dedicated to education and sustainable agriculture in D.R. Congo. To lift the ecological pressure from the Kwilu district, restore the forests and structurally improve the soil quality, CDI introduces agro-forestry methods. For example, the hill ridges of 1,235 acres of heavily degraded savannah will be reforested, and 1,235 acres of oil palm trees will be planted in the valleys. In order to be able to carry out these plans, CDI will be working with over 200 farmer organisations with a total of 20,000 members. The Turing Foundation contributes € 75,000 to the project (€ 25.000 in 2013).
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 Reforestation result near Mampu, seen from the air |
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Reforestation, Burkina Faso, 2011-2013
The Burkina Faso desert is swiftly advancing. And due to logging for home use, the country loses 80,000 acres of forest every year. ChildFund and the local IDEES/ACG offers trainings for sustainable land use and alternative sources of income, and provides small wood-saving stoves made of clay. Moreover, in six village communities 'Community forests' will be planted, accompanied by agro-forestry trainings. The Turing Foundation donated € 55,000 to the project, which ends 31 december 2013.
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 Energy-efficient wood stove |
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Regreening Initiative, Phase 2, Niger, 2012-2013
In 2010, Both Ends and CIS-VU (Centre for International Cooperation -VU University Amsterdam) started the Re-greening Initiative in Niger with the help of local NGO CRESA. It involves the natural regeneration of 80,000 hectares of land, aimed at recovering nature and improving the living conditions of the local people. Phase 1 of the project saw the realization of field activities and trainings regarding re-greening in 46 villages, the installation of 38 village committees, and the start of a lobby to raise support for re-greening. Phase 2 will be focused on intensifying the project, expanding the re-greening approach to surrounding villages and regions, and strengthening the lobby for widespread re-greening support within the Nigerian government. In 2012, the Turing Foundation will be donating € 70,000 to the second phase of the project. For the first phase, the initiators previously received € 118,000.
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 Regreening Initiative, Niger |
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Communal management of grazing land and forest restoration in Ségou, Mali, 2009-2011
The agricultural region Ségou frequently suffers from food shortages caused by the exhaustion of agricultural and grazing land. Forests are chopped down for fire wood and frequently disputes arise about the scarce wells and between nomadic herdsmen and landowners. In order to stop the advancing desert, this project teaches the local population to grow their own trees for replanting or for sale, wells are being dug for the livestock and trees are being planted, such as the baobab that is threatened with extinction. In order to restore the ecological balance, at least 50 hectares of forest are to be planted every year. In addition, members of the local authority and other people involved are trained in communal environmental management. The Turing Foundation supports the Malian organisation ALPHALOG through the development organisation ICCO with € 110,000, of which € 30.000 in 2011, the final year of the project. ALPHALOG collaborates with the Malian Turing partners OMAES, AMSS and GRAT.
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 Reforestation of desertified soil. Turing project visit, November 2010 |
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Regreening Initiative, Niger, 2010-2011
Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, with three-quarters of its surface covered by desert and 85% of its population being entirely dependent on agriculture. Both Ends and the VU Centre for International Cooperation, in association with local organisation CRESA, want to help start the natural regeneration of 80 hectares of land by creating a 'green zone', and by doing so recover nature and improve local living standards. A total of 1,200 farmers and 60 technicians will be trained in afforestation and forest restoration, and 40 village committees will be supplied with necessary materials. The Turing Foundation will donate a total amount of € 118,000 to the project (€ 45.000 in 2011) that will run until the end of this year.
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Regreening Initiative, Niger |
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Sustainable agriculture and forestry in the Missahoe Forest Reserve, Togo, 2010-2012
The local organisation Les Compagnons Ruraux works hard to recover the Missahoe forest reserve in Togo. Based on positive results of earlier forest recovery programmes, 7000 people of five villages will be involved in a project of 'analogous planting'. New plantings will have almost the same function as rain forests but will in part consist of economically interesting species, such as coffee, pepper trees and certain fruit trees. In the third phase of the project, which will last one more year, another 50,000 trees will be planted, 10 information campaigns will be launched, the production of cocoa - which has by now started - will be certified and 12 volunteers will be trained in forest fire fighting. In 2010, the Turing Foundation provides funding for this project via IUCN NL, donating € 44,000. Earlier, the Turing Foundation financed the construction of two schools in this area.
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 Nursery of economically interesting trees for analogous reforestation, Missahoe Forest Reserve, Togo |
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Sustainable agriculture and forestry in the Missahoe Forest Reserve, Togo, 2007-2009
In Togo, IUCN Nederland works together with the local organisation Les Compagnons Ruraux to recover part of the rainforest. This rainforest has been seriously impoverished due to human activities, but it still houses a very important biodiversity. Based on positive experiences in an earlier forest recovery programme, 7,000 people of five villages will be involved in a project of 'analogous planting'. This means that the new plantings will have almost the same function as the rainforest, but will in part consist of economically interesting species of trees, such as coffee, pepper tree and certain kinds of fruit trees. The Turing Foundation finances this project, which runs until July 2009 (€ 83,000).
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 Missahoe forest reserve, Togo |
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