Training of young mentors (ambassadors) to implement the agroforestry restoration scheme
F4F-GIZ-DFS
Restoration model for agroforestry plots and mobilization of local skills
With a view to perfectly replicating the restoration model in the field, with the aim of having a single basis for assessing the plantations of beneficiary households and the contribution of local expertise, the F4F project has set up a group of actors known as "Encadreur ou Ambassadeur". These are 23 young people from the project's 5 cantons who have been trained and equipped in the restoration model. Their task is to support each beneficiary household in carrying out planting activities. The households' contribution (20%) consisted of site preparation work, finding stakes and staking, planting and maintaining the seedlings. The project plans to award prizes to encourage the best households.
- Local skills available within the grassroots community
- Good understanding of the restoration model by beneficiary households
- Agreement of landowners
- An agreement between the farmer and the landowner is essential before any action is taken in the field, otherwise there is a risk of sabotage and vandalism of the plantations.
- Guaranteeing security of tenure for landowners
- A definition of the key to the distribution of usufruits linked to the exploitation of border plantations.
- Involvement of transhumant Peulhs in restoration activities (awareness-raising and compromise on grazing management), as Cajanus cajan is highly appreciated by cattle.