Combating Desertification and Improving Local Livelihoods through the GGWI in the Sahel Region: The Example of Senegal

Diop, Salif; Guisse, Aliou; Sène, C.; Cissé, Birane; Diop, Ndeye Rokhaya; Ka, Sokhna Dié; Cisse, Amady Gnagna; Sambou, Soussou; Ndiaye, Ousmane; Fandohan, Adandé Belarmain; Fu, Chengjie; Wang, Guoqin; Wang, Yongdong

doi:10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2018.03.005

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“…There were also a number of authors who brought attention to Tax and fiscal policy as important factors in the success of SLM interventions; these included reference to increased fiscal spending [68,74,75], subsidization [76], the design of social safety net programs [62] and tax regimes [77]. Finally, a range of Other Policy changes were suggested, including technological support and technical expertise [68,70,78,79], institutional reform and integration [15,69,74,80,81] and Public-Private Partnerships [74].…”

Section: Collective Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Credit and incentives, others mentioned credit as a way to ensure sufficient finance for SLM [65,80], while a further group of articles focus on other policies to stimulate individual incentives [27,68,71,80], including lifting financial constraints [84]. Finally, some articles argued for creating Market access, such as through general market access for products [55,80], access to the carbon market [74,81,85] and through value chains [74,78,86].…”

Section: Collective Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social factors: A number of authors focused on the availability of social Organizations and co-operatives [55,63], Extension services [63,74,80] and Infrastructure, including roads [55,80,87], and the establishment of Gender equality [78,83], and paid particular attention to the landless [27].…”

Section: Collective Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Natural/Physical: A number of authors made recommendations for what physical and natural interventions should be made: to choose shrubs over trees [89], promote renewable energy and alternative energy sources [74,83], improve technology [82] and increase water availability [78]. This limited list reflects the fact that the articles selected focused on the social aspects of SLM interventions; a review of biophysically oriented papers would undoubtedly return a much more comprehensive list.…”

Section: Collective Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Social Impacts of Sustainable Land Management in Great Green Wall Countries: An Evaluative Framework Based on the Capability Approach

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The Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI) is a pan-African program launched in 2007 to combat land degradation and bring about both ecological and socio-economic benefits in the Sahel. With projects in place on only one-fifth of the targeted land and uncertainty about the extent of positive impacts, there is a need for improved monitoring and evaluation of current projects to inform the design of future projects. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of socio-economic impacts, drawing on development theory, to relate investments in sustainable land management (SLM) to outcomes in terms of human well-being. We deploy a conceptual model, which draws on both the capability approach to human development and the sustainable livelihood framework. To contextualize the framework to the Sahel, we undertook a literature review of scientific studies of the facilitative social conditions and socio-economic impacts of SLM interventions in four countries: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger and Ethiopia. We further refined the framework by examining project evaluation reports of Global Environmental Facility (GEF)-funded SLM projects. Our analysis of GEF projects shows that current monitoring and evaluation pays only limited attention to achieved outcomes in terms of well-being. We briefly discuss the application of the framework to SLM interventions and make recommendations for how it should be operationalized, including recommending more comprehensive measurement of the well-being impacts of these projects.

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Reversing degradation of social–ecological systems: explaining the outcomes of interventions in Africa

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Study on the Livelihood Vulnerability and Compensation Standard of Employees in Relocation Enterprises: A Case of Chemical Enterprises in the Yangtze River Basin

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Chen

Gao

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The relocation of chemical enterprises along the Yangtze River a necessary means of ecological protection in the Yangtze River Basin. Vulnerability assessment provides a new idea for the study of livelihood ability and compensation standard of employees after relocation. Based on the framework of “Exposure-Sensitivity-Adaptability” proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the survey data of 410 employees of relocation enterprises in the Hubei Province of the Yangtze River Basin, this study firstly constructs a livelihood vulnerability evaluation index system and evaluation model, and analyzes whether the employees of relocation enterprises have the ability to cope with the risk impact brought by the Yangtze River Ecological Restoration policy. Then, we use multiple linear regression model to explore the relationship between the group’s exposure, sensitivity, adaptability and livelihood vulnerability. Finally, we design a new compensation standard calculation method for special groups from the perspective of social cost, to alleviate their livelihood vulnerability and provide a theoretical basis and decision support for the government and enterprises to formulate and implement relevant resettlement standards. The results show that: (1) employees of all ages show a certain degree of vulnerability in their livelihood; (2) there are differences in livelihood vulnerability between male and female employees; (3) compared with other positions, the livelihood vulnerability of producers is relatively high, and the vulnerability index is unevenly distributed and internally differentiated; (4) a low family burden ratio, high education, convenient living conditions and complex social network can effectively reduce the vulnerability of employees’ livelihood; (5) the key obstacle factors affecting the sustainable livelihood of families are living convenience, adaptability to relocation, policy understanding, children’s burden ratio, education, and annual income per capita; (6) the alternative opportunity cost method can be used as the basis to determine the compensation standard of the relocated employees, which can better reflect the compensation effect of the opportunity cost in the existing definition of international compensation mechanisms and realize the leap from concept to action.

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Combating Desertification and Improving Local Livelihoods through the GGWI in the Sahel Region: The Example of Senegal

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The Social Impacts of Sustainable Land Management in Great Green Wall Countries: An Evaluative Framework Based on the Capability Approach

The Social Impacts of Sustainable Land Management in Great Green Wall Countries: An Evaluative Framework Based on the Capability Approach

Reversing degradation of social–ecological systems: explaining the outcomes of interventions in Africa

Study on the Livelihood Vulnerability and Compensation Standard of Employees in Relocation Enterprises: A Case of Chemical Enterprises in the Yangtze River Basin

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