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Carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions in (agro)silvopastoral ecosystems in the Sahelian CILSS States (CASSECS)

Last update: 27 February 2023

One of the nine DeSIRA projects involved in DISSEM-INN, the CASSECS project focuses on livestock.

The DeSIRA initiative
Launched at the One Planet Summit in Paris in 2017, the “Development Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA)” initiative is supported by European Commission’s Directorate for International Partnerships (DG INTPA). By funding more than sixty projects worldwide, this program aims to promote innovation in agriculture and transformation of partner countries’ agri-food systems to make them more resilient to the effects of climate change. Through the original concept of “action-research” for a “development smart innovation”, it seeks to promote a science in partnership that meet development challenges.

Description

The aim of the CASSECS project is to improve the assessment of the carbon footprint of Sahelian agro-silvopastoral ecosystems in order to better quantify their impacts on climate change for the development of livestock policies adapted to the Sahel. It has two expected outcomes: the production of baseline data on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in agro-silvopastoral ecosystems and the development of multi-scale carbon assessment tools at several levels (in particular national, but also regional and international); and the co-design (with agropastoral communities) of innovative options for the sustainable mitigation of greenhouse gases. More specifically, the goals of the project are to: 

  • propose greenhouse gas (GHG) emission factors related to (agro)pastoral livestock in Sahelian countries and carbon sequestration potential in agro-silvopastoral systems;
  • develop sustainable mitigation options combining actions that increase productivity and soil carbon storage to improve system efficiency;
  • train and build the capacities of local NGOs and pastoralist associations for better appropriation of the greenhouse gas analysis methodological approach.

Countries concerned

  • Experimental sites: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger
  • Advocacy and training activities: Mauritania, Mali, Chad

Length

2020 - 2023

Actors involved

  • Coordinator: ISRA 
  • Platform in partnership for research and training (dP): dP-PPZS, dP-ASAP
  • Partners: CIRAD, CIRDES, INERA, AGRHYMET (CILSS), IRD, FAO, University of Copenhagen (KU), University Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, UCAD, UC Louvain, Lund University, CSE, Ministère de l’Elevage et des Productions Animales (Senegal), RECOPA, APEES, INRAE, CNRS
  • Funding: DeSIRA initiative (DG INTPA/UE)

Last update: 27 February 2023