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Project photo competition winners announced

Agro-silvo-pastoral landscape during the wet season. A mosaic of millet and groundnut fields dominated by Faidherbia albida trees (defoliated during the wet season). Niakhar, Senegal. Alain Audebert, August 2018.

A food stand in Burkina Faso, with tree products. From left to right: 1) Sumbala from Parkia biglobosa, 2) flower calyxes from Bombax costatum; 3) fruits from Vitellaria paradoxa; 4) fruits from Adansonia digitata; 5) Tamarindus indica and 6) pods from Faidherbia albida. Fernando Sousa, January 2021.

Fragile soils of Senegal running through farmer's fingers. Extremely degraded soils in Ouarkhokh are limiting the productivity. Fernando Sousa, January 2021.

Meeting under a neem tree in Koulikoro, Mali. Trees also provide a "habitat" for humans to interact and discuss the future. Fernando Sousa, January 2021.

Protecting an orange seedling from animals. This requires a lot effort particularly when resources such as fences are limited. Koulikoro, Mali. Fernando Sousa, January 2021.

Watering cattle in Senegal. Water is scarce during the 9 months dry season. Herders must find wells to water their animals. Fernando Sousa, January 2021.


Sustain Sahel partners from West Africa and Europe were invited to submit their photos for display on the project’s website of the landscapes, farming practices and communities with which they will be working over the next five years to help drive sustainable agriculture, through the integration of crops, shrubs, and livestock.

Taken on recent country and field site visits to Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mali, the standard of images submitted for the internal competition was ‘extremely high’ says project co-ordinator Harun Cicek, who was a member of the visiting group. Meeting many stakeholders and farming communities, it was obvious to the teams that Sustain Sahel’s support of agri-practices that deliver effective interaction between crops, shrubs and livestock is supported and welcome by all.

The winning photos can be seen on the website’s photo gallery, as well as being utilised across the project’s website

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