Fina Tawa: agro-ecological resource center in Senegal
In north-eastern Senegal, small-scale farmers face 4 major problems: droughts aggravated by climate change, lack of access to quality seeds, lack of training in climate-smart techniques, and lack of storage, processing and marketing solutions.
As a result, their productivity is limited and agricultural losses are high. For example, 40% of onion production rots in the fields, and a few months later the whole country is out of stock, importing tons of onions from the Netherlands!
Comprehensive support for small producers
Since 2018, Entrepreneurs du Monde has been offering small farmers comprehensive support to help them adopt production methods that are resilient to climate change, and then store and market their produce. The aim is twofold: to provide them with decent incomes to improve their daily lives and their children’s future, and to contribute to the country’s food security.
2023 key figures
1 556
farmers supported
90%
women
1 400
women trained in good farming practices
It works !
Fawrou is doing an extraordinary job here!
I’m one of the people in charge of the market gardening plot that we cultivate together as women. Thanks to Fina Tawa (formerly Fawrou Remobe), we have access to the storage granary for our onions, and to training to increase our yields without chemicals and to make a success of our tree nurseries, which is very important to combat the heat, which has become difficult to bear here.
Fawrou is doing an extraordinary job here! What we get from our fields today we use firstly to feed our children better and secondly, with the surplus we sell, we put aside to buy seeds again and to pay for uniforms and exercise books for our children’s school.
Binta Ndao
Training, loans, granaries, sales support
Small-scale producers benefit from upstream support:
– Training in agro-ecology to improve soils and yields
– Selection of quality seeds
– Agricultural credit
– Support for fencing and water pump maintenance
And downstream of production:
– provision of grain threshing equipment to relieve women’s workloads
– provision of earthen granaries to enable crops to be stored for several months, despite the extreme heat of the hot season (45 to 48°)
– monitoring market price trends to enable producers to seize the best sales opportunities.
