31 October 2013, Dakar, Senegal - (L to R) Papa Abdoulaye Seck, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Equipment, Senegal, Makhtar Diop, World Bank Vice President for the Africa Region, and Djim© Adoum, Executive Secretary of the CILSS, speaking during a press conference ahead of the Joint World Bank-Government of Senegal-CILLS Irrigation High level forum "Beating the Odds, Building Resilience in the Sahel: Water in the 21st Century".