SENEGAL09 June 2011, Liguere - A farmer water an acacia seedling that was just planted.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Acacia Operation. Support to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Soil Degradation...
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SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - Agronomist Dr. Venanzio Vallerani posing with his invention, the tractor behind him. The tractor, a mechanized water harvesting technology, implements the Vallerani System where...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - The President of the Women's Committee Fatou Seye extracting scoring the bark of an Acacia tree to start the sap flowing (gum arabic). Acacia trees offers many benefits....
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - A worker at the Valdafrique Processing Plant, where gum arabic is processed into a variety of products, cleaning the floors.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Acacia Operation....
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SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - Agronomist Dr. Venanzio Vallerani posing with his invention, the tractor behind him. The tractor, a mechanized water harvesting technology, implements the Vallerani System where...
00062192
SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - The President of the Women's Committee Fatou Seye extracting scoring the bark of an Acacia tree to start the sap flowing (gum arabic). Acacia trees offers many benefits....
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar, Senegal - A bag of gum arabic flour for use in the pharmaceutical and food industries to make medicines, soft drinks, confectionary and dairy products.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/38...
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SENEGAL11 June 2011, Widou - A participant of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting a part of the Great Green Wall Project (Grande Muraille Verte) learning about a multi-purpose garden. The garden, es...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Liguere - A farmer and beneficiary of the FAO Acacia Project.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Acacia Operation. Support to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Soil Degradation Cont...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Gum arabic or sap being extrcted from an acacia tree. When the trees have reached maturity, the sap is collected by FAO project beneficiaries and sold for processing. Th...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - Candies made with gum arabic. Gum arabic is widely used in the pharmaceutical and food industries to make medicines, soft drinks, confectionary and dairy products.
FAO Project...
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SENEGAL11 June 2011, Widou - Colonel Sarre of the Great Green Wall Project (Grande Muraille Verte) explaining to a visiting participant of the Africa Drylands Week conference a multi-purpose garden seen in t...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Liguere - A farmer planting acacia seedlings.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Acacia Operation. Support to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Soil Degradation Control in the Gums...
00062190
SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Gum arabic or sap being extrcted from an acacia tree. When the trees have reached maturity, the sap is collected by FAO project beneficiaries and sold for processing. Th...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - A worker at the Valdafrique Processing Plant, where gum arabic is processed for use in medicines, soft drinks, confectionary and dairy products, monitoring a processing machine....
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SENEGAL11 June 2011, Widou - Participants of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting a part of the Great Green Wall Project (Grande Muraille Verte) learning about a multi-purpose garden. The garden, est...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Linguere - A tractor ploughing degraded land using the Vallerani System, invented by Dr. Venanzio Vallerani. This mechanized water harvesting technology creates a system of micro-basins...
00062187
SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Gum arabic or sap being extrcted from an acacia tree. When the trees have reached maturity, the sap is collected by FAO project beneficiaries and sold for processing. Th...
00062204
SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - A worker at the Valdafrique Processing Plant, where gum arabic is processed for use in medicines, soft drinks, confectionary and dairy products, monitoring a processing machine....
00062173
SENEGAL09 June 2011, Linguere - A tractor ploughing degraded land using the Vallerani System, invented by Dr. Venanzio Vallerani. This mechanized water harvesting technology creates a system of micro-basins...
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SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Participants of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting the Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) Project.
The Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) is a p...
00062188
SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Gum arabic or sap being extrcted from an acacia tree. When the trees have reached maturity, the sap is collected by FAO project beneficiaries and sold for processing. Th...
00062203
SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - Workers at the Valdafrique Processing Plant breaking down gum arabic harvested from acacia trees. Once processed, the gum will be sold on international markets.
FAO Project:...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Linguere - A tractor ploughing degraded land using the Vallerani System, invented by Dr. Venanzio Vallerani. This mechanized water harvesting technology creates a system of micro-basins...
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SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - A participant of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting the Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) Project.
The Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) is a...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - The President of the Women's Committee Fatou Seye extracting scoring the bark of an Acacia tree to start the sap flowing (gum arabic). Acacia trees offers many benefits....
00062202
SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - Workers at the Valdafrique Processing Plant breaking down gum arabic harvested from acacia trees. Once processed, the gum will be sold on international markets.
FAO Project:...
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SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - Participants of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting the FAO Acacia Project and Great Green Wall Project out in the field. Here they are attending a meeting held by the...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Linguere - A tractor ploughing degraded land using the Vallerani System, invented by Dr. Venanzio Vallerani. This mechanized water harvesting technology creates a system of micro-basins...
00062186
SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Gum arabic or sap being extrcted from an acacia tree. When the trees have reached maturity, the sap is collected by FAO project beneficiaries and sold for processing. Th...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - Workers at the Valdafrique Processing Plant breaking down gum arabic harvested from acacia trees. Once processed, the gum will be sold on international markets.
FAO Project:...
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SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - A tractor ploughing degraded land using the Vallerani System, invented by Dr. Venanzio Vallerani. This mechanized water harvesting technology creates a system of micro-basins wh...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Linguere - A tractor ploughing degraded land using the Vallerani System, invented by Dr. Venanzio Vallerani. This mechanized water harvesting technology creates a system of micro-basins...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - More than150 women in the village are participating in the FAO Acacia Project. From 2004 to 2007, in partnership with the Senegalese forestry service, FAO provided seeds...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Beneficiaries of the FAO Acacia Tree Project holding a village meeting about the income-earning product from the trees, gum arabic.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Ac...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - A crate of raw gum arabic just harvested and ready for processing. Once processed, the gum will be sold on international markets.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Acacia Opera...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - The President of the Women's Committee Fatou Seye extracting scoring the bark of an Acacia tree to start the sap flowing (gum arabic). Acacia trees offers many benefits....
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Beneficiaries of the FAO Acacia Tree Project holding a village meeting about the income-earning product from the trees, gum arabic.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Ac...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - The President of the Women's Committee Fatou Seye is one of 150 women in the village benefiting from the FAO Acacia Tree Project. From 2004 to 2007, FAO, in partnership...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Liguere - An acacia tree plantation. With two thirds of the African continent now classified as desert or drylands and desertification affecting a quarter of the world's population, this...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - Boxes of sweets known as "pastilles" are displayed at the Valdafrique Processing Plant where gum arabic, the hardened sap of the Senegal Acacia tree, is used in the pharmaceutica...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Liguere - A worker on the acacia tree project planting a seedling.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Acacia Operation. Support to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Soil Degradation...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - A local villager tending a crop of acacia trees showing the sap or gum arabic that is harvested for eventual sale to a processing plant.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - Portrait of the Chief Pharmacist at the Valdafrique Processing Plant Dr. Madiagne Sakho, where gum arabic is processed into a variety of products.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/IT...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Linguere - A worker watering acacia seedlings in a plant nursery run by the Forestry Service. Gum arabic production is a growing industry where demand is high for a variety of uses in th...
00062196
SENEGAL09 June 2011, Linguere - Land where a tractor has ploughed using the Vallerani System, invented by Dr. Venanzio Vallerani. This mechanized water harvesting technology creates a system of micro-basins...
00062179
SENEGAL09 June 2011, Liguere - An acacia tree plantation. With two thirds of the African continent now classified as desert or drylands and desertification affecting a quarter of the world's population, this...
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SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - FAO Forestry Officer and mission coordinator Nora Berrahmouni (L) and President of the Women's Committee (Feminie Jappo) Fatou Seye (C) speaking with Regional Inspector of Water...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - Sacks of gum arabic flour for use in the pharmaceutical and food industries to make medicines, soft drinks, confectionary and dairy products.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - A...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Liguere - An acacia tree plantation. With two thirds of the African continent now classified as desert or drylands and desertification affecting a quarter of the world's population, this...
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SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Participants of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting a boutique run by the Women's Committee (Feminie Jappo) where they sell handmade goods.
FAO Project: GTFS...
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SENEGAL08 June 2011, Dakar - Chief Pharmacist at the Valdafrique Processing Plant Dr. Madiagne Sakho, where gum arabic is processed into a variety of products, monitoring the production line.
FAO Project:...
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SENEGAL09 June 2011, Linguere - A worker watering acacia seedlings in a plant nursery run by the Forestry Service. Gum arabic production is a growing industry where demand is high for a variety of uses in th...
00062177
SENEGAL09 June 2011, Liguere - A farmer planting acacia seedlings.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Acacia Operation. Support to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Soil Degradation Control in the Gums...
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SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Participants of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting a boutique run by the Women's Committee (Feminie Jappo) where they sell handmade goods.
FAO Project: GTFS...
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SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - A view of the Great Green Wall Project (Grande Muraille Verte).
The Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) is a pan-African initiative launched in 2007 by the Afric...
00062194
SENEGAL09 June 2011, Linguere - A worker watering acacia seedlings in a plant nursery run by the Forestry Service. Gum arabic production is a growing industry where demand is high for a variety of uses in th...
00062178
SENEGAL09 June 2011, Liguere - Farmers preparing sandy soil for planting acacia tree seedlings.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Acacia Operation. Support to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Soil Deg...
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SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - FAO Forestry Officer and mission coordinator Nora Berrahmouni (L) attending a meeting held by the community of farmers and cooperatives that have benefited from the FAO Acacia P...
00062129
SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Colonel Sarre explaining the Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) to a visiting participant of the Africa Drylands Week conference.
The Great Green Wall (Grande M...
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SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - FAO Forestry Officer Nora Berrahmouni speaking at the First Africa Drylands Week celebration of the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make Dryla...
00062114
SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - Dr. Venanzio Vallerani (white T-shirt), inventor of the Vallerani System, a mechanized water harvesting technology which creates a system of micro-basins to collect rainwater, o...
00062161
SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - FAO Representative in Senegal Amadou Ouattara speaking at the First Africa Drylands Week celebration of the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Ma...
00062145
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - Group photo of the panel delegation of the official opening session of the First Africa Drylands Week conference. The First Africa Drylands Week was held back-to-back with the gl...
00062130
SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - A view of the Great Green Wall Project (Grande Muraille Verte).
The Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) is a pan-African initiative launched in 2007 by the Afric...
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SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - The President of the Women's Committee Fatou Seye (L) meeting with the community and visitng agronomist Dr. Venanzio Vallerani (center, blue shirt). Ms Seye is one of 15...
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SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - General view at the First Africa Drylands Week conference. The First Africa Drylands Week was held back-to-back with the global observance event on 17 June to mark World Day to C...
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SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - A private vegetable farm that has benefited from the FAO Acacia Project.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Acacia Operation. Support to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and S...
00062158
SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - Video conferencing with distant participants at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make...
00062128
SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - A view of the Great Green Wall Project (Grande Muraille Verte).
The Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) is a pan-African initiative launched in 2007 by the Afric...
00062144
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - Participants attending the First Africa Drylands Week conference. The First Africa Drylands Week was held back-to-back with the global observance event on 17 June to mark World D...
00062159
SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - Executive secretary of the UNCCD Mr Luc Gnacadja speaking at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme...
00062125
SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Participants of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting the Great Green Wall Project (Grande Muraille Verte).
The Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) is a p...
00062141
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - General view of participants at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make Drylands Work....
00062156
SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - Representative for rural women Madame Naho Fall speaking at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme...
00062126
SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - Participants of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting the FAO Acacia Tree Project that has benefited the local Women's Committee. The project has benefited 150 wo...
00062142
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - D?gu?Wallonie-Bruxelles in Dakar, Burkina Faso et B?n for the Belgian Embassy Anne Lange speaking at the First Africa Drylands Week conference. The First Africa Drylands Week was...
00062111
SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - A private vegetable farm that has benefited from the FAO Acacia Project.
FAO Project: GTFS/RAF/387/ITA - Acacia Operation. Support to Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and S...
00062157
SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - Video conferencing with distant participants at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make...
00062123
SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - A sign showing donors to the Great Green Wall Project (Grande Muraille Verte).
The Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) is a pan-African initiative launched in 2...
00062139
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - Directorate-General Development and Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States for the European Commission Jozias Blok speaking at the First Africa Drylands Week confer...
00062154
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - General view of participants at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make Drylands Work....
00062124
SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - A view of the Great Green Wall Project (Grande Muraille Verte).
The Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) is a pan-African initiative launched in 2007 by the Afric...
00062140
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - General view of participants at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make Drylands Work....
00062155
SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - Italian Agronomist Dr. Venanzio Vallerani watering a seedling that was just planted.
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SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - General view of participants at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make Drylands Work....
00062121
SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - A participant of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting the Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) Project.
The Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) is a...
00062137
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - Minister of State, Minister of Environment and Nature Protection Djibo Le? Ka speaking at a press conference during the First Africa Drylands Week conference. The First Africa Dr...
00062152
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - General view of participants at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make Drylands Work....
00062169
SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - Representative for rural women Madame Naho Fall speaking at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme...
00062122
SENEGAL11 June 2011, Thikene Ndiaye - A view of the Great Green Wall Project (Grande Muraille Verte).
The Great Green Wall (Grande Muraille Verte) is a pan-African initiative launched in 2007 by the Afric...
00062138
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - Director General of the National Agency of the Great Green Wall Project Matar Ciss?peaking at a press conference during the First Africa Drylands Week conference. The First Afric...
00062153
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - General view of participants at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make Drylands Work....
00062166
SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - Minister for the Environment Mr Saliou Rama Ka speaking at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme F...
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SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - Participants of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting the FAO Acacia Project and Great Green Wall Project out in the field. Here they are attending a meeting held by the...
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SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - A participant speaking at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make Drylands Work. The F...
00062135
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - Minister of State, Minister of Environment and Nature Protection Djibo Le? Ka speaking at a press conference during the First Africa Drylands Week conference. The First Africa Dr...
00062167
SENEGAL17 June 2011, Dakar - Executive secretary of the UNCCD Mr Luc Gnacadja speaking at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme...
00062120
SENEGAL12 June 2011, Nguith - Participants of the Africa Drylands Week conference visiting the FAO Acacia Project and Great Green Wall Project out in the field. Here they are attending a meeting held by the...
00062151
SENEGAL14 June 2011, Dakar - General view of participants at the First Africa Drylands Week conference celebrating the International Day to Combat Desertification under the theme Forests Make Drylands Work....
