Objectives
In West Africa, livestock and cattle keepers are major players in the valuation of land and natural resources. In highly constrained environments, they confront the many changes underway. These are of ecological, climatic, economic, social, political, security or health, orders and determine the future direction of pastoral practices.
Around major issues raised by future contributions of livestock to the agricultural sector, environment, livelihoods and food security of the populations of the region, the Pastoralism and Drylands Pole (PPZS) brings together multidisciplinary expertise of national and international institutions.
The objective is to promote scientific partnerships and the development through research of landscape and societies and the transfer of knowledge on the functions, the functionning and the functionalities of pastoralism.
Partnership
Based in Dakar (Senegal) and with the support of an interinstitutional agreement, the « Pastoralism and Drylands Pole » partnership, combines a broad group of researchers and teachers from the Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research (ISRA), of the University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), the Ecological Monitoring Centre (CSE), National school of Applied Economics (ENEA-UCAD) and the Centre for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD). Interacting with the civil society and the regional and international organizations that accompany livestock and pastoral breeding, they confront the scientific knowledges and develop skills to support innovation.