Rehabilitation of Forests and Landscapes

The estimate challenge to rehabilitate forests and landscapes destroyed, due to climate change and human activities is the restauration of 9 million hectares of degraded and deforested land in Burkina Faso and its frontiers. 

In line with the bonn challange would create aproximately USD 50 thousand par year in net benefits that could bring direct additional income opportunities for rural communities in the north. 

About 80 % of this value is potentially tradable, meaning that it encompasses market-related benefits. Additonally, analyses would be needed to quantify non-market benefits "Biodiversity, water quality" as well as the whole potential of undevelopped landscape value chain. 

However, it is important to note that RENAV cost and benefits are highly variable depending on site and ecosystem specific conditions. 

The challange is to develop communities affected by climate change. We believe that this challange will irradicate about 85% of poverty in Burkina Faso and nearby communities.     

In recent decades, Burkina Faso a country of sahel, has face a chain of extrime climatic events of unprecedented magnitude and rapidity. We can think of the drutht period of the past three decades, the most affected years were 1973 to 1993, which greatly affected ecosystems as well as agricultural production system. 

The desertification that the country is experiencing has a serious consequences at biophysical and socioeconomic level. In Burkina Faso, Agriculture production triggers if not all but most secteurs in the economy, it is reliable and adapted at present and the future. 

Among the impacts of climate variation affection the country is the loss of biodiversity ,ecosystems and traditional medicine due to deforestation and overexploitation of agriculture lands as well as the migration of certain plant species towords the south. These changes has affected 80% of families in the country, in which the agricultural secteur has become vulnerable. 

Futher more, the country's economy partially base on agriculture production in an unfavorable international context, minimizing the value and prise of labour and foodstuffs contributes from the out set of the degradation of natural resources by placing more pressure on them. 

At the root of this evil, widespread of poverty invade families and communities accompanied by a subsistance of economy, limited access to education and information as well as insufficent resources for drugs and qualified medical personals. These problems are translated into maternal mortality of 484/100 000 life birth as well as infant mortality of 105.3/1000 and child mortality of 149.6/1000.

The most striking and most frequently of this problem is rainfall dynamics. Indeed there is a major decrease in rainfall in the central and central plateau regions, Shelian and Sudano Shelian the most affected. 

The aime of this project is to rehabilitate forests, landscapes and agriculture lands. Planting 79 millions trees including 15 millions fruits trees such as  (Mango trees, Date palm trees, Doum palm, Cowpea, grassy plants like peanuts, Green grams and grassy plants that can resist to erosion on sluppy lands(Vetch, Rye and Clover)) into 9 million hectars of land. The ration is 8,7 million trees per 1 million hectares from now to 2030.

For Sudano Shelian areas, we will installed higher boreholes (≥ 4 m3 / hour) equipped with water tower and solar powered electric dewatering system, for watering trees for about 10 years. 

The shelian and sudano sahelian in the northern part of the country are the most affected. With the decrease in rain fall and the increase in temprature, drougth, desertification were the most frequenly disturbing elements. The rapid advancement of desert toward the south and the increase in aridity of soil, and loss of soil fertility are the notable changes. These transformation are also accompained by changes in vegetation. It is notated that a decline in vegetations is a decrease in certain species or the disapperance of some of them. Whole forests  have died in the north which is now look like endless semeteries of vegetation. 

The current population growth in the country is estimated at 2.37% per year, and 90% of the population reside in rural areas in this under developing country 45% of the population live below the absolut national poverty line at 72,695 FCFA per adlut per year, which aproximately equivelant to 175 canadian dollars.

One of the point we would like to put forward is the great importance of taking into account the vulnerability of those regions and  their inhabitants in the face of climate change. 

To help the population to live in an avrage live, we determine to regreen those deversated land and make those semeteries of vegetation into cities of trees and grass, and to refertilize agriculture lands and creating jobs on Algae production...etc. 

We determined to use wetlands in this areas for algues production: Algae has the potential to become, an important sustainable source of biomass for making biofuel, food livestock feed and other products. some other type of algae product oils and chemicals. In addition, many minicipal water treatment plants use algae to clean wastwater. 

Dam mecanism for algae production. 

Our Objectives    

 1) Create income opportunities for people, youths (young men and women),

2) Regreen 9 million hectares of land in the north of Burkina Faso and its

   frontiers,

3) Create a board of local chieves for resolution on family lands conflict, 

4)  Provide food and medical for volontiers through out the operation,

5) Regain ecological integrity and enhance human well-being and nature

6) Creat tourism investement opportunities to rebuild income that will serve      to extend forests and landscapes to neighbouring countries.  

7) Improve technology adoption on governance and institutions for effective      water management to phycal and economic access to sufficient safe              nutrition food and water use through effective water policies.    

The success of restauration of forests and landscapes depends on the availability of resources, sufficient funds as well as on the degree of dependence on external technologies of some ecosystem services. We aim to reestablish a previous ecosystem state and all its functions and services by: establishing seed banks, Reintroducing selected species, countering erosion through terracing and other measures, enriching the soil with nutrients and planting trees and fruit trees. 

RENAV has developed a concept of returns from landscape restoration as a way to attract investment. The challange would create approximately USD 50 thousand par year in net benefit.

We are a sustainable enterprise, we anticipate to meet the needs of present and future generations of stakeholders through creating and innovating new  strategies and activities that accelerate positive social change, protect and preserve environmental integrity, while enhancing business performance. 

RENAV incorporates principles of sustainability into each of its operation decisions, produce environmentally services that replaces degrade forests and landscapes and has made an enduring commitment to environmental principles in its operations. 

• Our preventive actions include:                                               Intergrating land and water management topotect soils from erosion, salinization                                                 
• Protecting the vegetative cover, which can be a major instrument for soil conservation against wind and water erosion,      
•  Applying a combination of traditional practices with locally acceptable and locally adapted land use technologies.

Our target is by the end of 2030, Burkina faso will have large forest and landscape  areas  in the north. 

It is already known that climate change is the cause for changes on agriculture lands, degrade fatial lands, exteraminat forest and landscapes and turnd them to vegetation cemetries. This phenomeno has given an opportunity to the desert to advance about 250 meters since the millennium  towards the south.   

There are several ways to slow and eventually alt global warming; green house gas emission can be reduced or taken out of the atmosphere by restoring forests and landscapes, replace biomass and ecosystems. If these three nature are restored can provide suitable habitat for some of the insland's native species. We will provide consulting services to trees regarding carbon credit and other environmental issues and a network to researchers that can help the project to expand forther into other degraded lands in the North of Burkina Faso and its frontiers.   

RENAV is designed to develop communities affected from the drought of climate change. We are going to rehabilite  those forest and landscaps, and refertilize agriculture lands that are deverstating for decades.   

Our challange to this problem is to plant 79 million trees including 15 millons fruits trees to rebuild ecosystems by respecting the norms of ecosystem services. 

Forther more, we are going to create an agriculture production of algae in these regions to provide employment for the population.   

Land degradation poses a serious threat to the sustainable development of Burkina Faso. One-third of its national territory, over nine million hectares of productive land, is degraded. This is estimated to expand at an average of 360,000 hectares per year, according to the FAO.

The Sahel is experiencing an overall decrease in rainfall, but also a depletion of soils due to agricultural overexploitation and progressive deforestation of the original savannahs by cutting firewood, bush fires and stray animals.

From employing 90 percent of the country’s almost 7-million strong workforce in 2012, the agriculture sector now provides 80 percent of all jobs, still accounting for a third of the country’s GDP. However, more than 3.5 million people are food insecure, according to a USAID report.

With an urbanisation rate of 5.29 percent – according to Index Mundi figures – Burkina Faso seems to be experiencing one of the highest urbanisation rates in Africa and in the world, as women, children and elderly people flock to the cities, fleeing from climate change challenges, lingering poverty and armed conflict.

Nearly 600 civilians have been killed, and scores wounded in recent years, according to independent figures. Nearly half a million people were forced from their homes as increased insecurity resulted in a deepening and unprecedented humanitarian situation.

We will determine operation with an incoorporate step by step system. We will begain the operation from the root of the problem (worst areas) to the branches (less areas). I.e we begin form the North to the South with a step by step pattern. 

Our aime is to recorver 7900 hectars of land including areas occupied by towns and villages with trees and gress from 2021 to 2022. We have already dimacated hot spot regions according to the four cardinal points: Oudalan and Soum are regions in the North, Yatenga and Sourou North West regions, Seno and GnaGna, North East regions, Bam, Sanmatenga, Namentenga, Oubritenga, Passore Southern regions according to our maping.

We will start in the North region of Oudalan and extend towards the North West by the Mali border at Yatenga and Sourou then in the North East regions at Seno and GnaGna and finaly at the South retions Bam, Sanmatenga, Namentenga, Oubritenga and Passor...ect

We have estimated that from 2021 to 2025 we will corver about 39500 hectares of land.  Our goal in ten years will be 79 500 hectares of land. 

Burkina Faso is a land-locked country with agro-ecological conditions ranging from the Sahelian North, where pastoralism and agro-pastoralism predominate, to the Sudanian Central and Southern portions of the countries that contain the largest share of cultivable land. Agricultural land covers 39 percent of the country’s total area; savanna, 31 percent; steppe, 16 percent and Sahelian short grass savanna, 5 percent

BANDAOGO Zenabou:                                                                                     Chief Executive Officer (CEO).  Burkina Faso

BANDAOGO  Adama :                                                                        Executive Assistant.  Burkina Faso

CISSE Mouhamed:                                                                                           Chief Technology Officer.  Senegalaise

TURAY-WILLIAMS Mohamed Dawood                                                                 Project Leader and Coordinator.  Sierra Leonean

KOI Emenwella:                                                                                             Chief Marketing Officer.  Centeral African

OWEDRAOGO Ouoba                                                                                       Chief Operating Officer.  Burkina Faso

BANDAOGO Zenabou. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), She earned her MASTERS degree on Administration and Business Management in 2020. She has worked for several companys, she has about 10 years working experiences.

BANDAOGO Adama. Executive Assistant, He earn his MASTERS degree on Business Management in 2019. Hes works for International NGO compaly. He has about 12 years working experiences.

CISSE Mouhamet. Chief Technology Officer (CTO), He completed his studies with MASTERS degree on Renewable energies in 2019, He is works for Education Institutions. He has 8 years working experiences.

TURAY-WILLIAMS Mohamed Dawood. Project Leader and Coordinator. Completed his studies on Environnement and Sustinable developpement with a  MASTERS degree in 2019. He works for an Educational Institution. He has 10 years working experiences on community developement.

KOI Emenwella. Chief Marketing Officer. She earned her MASTERS degree on Marketing communication managements. She works for Educational Institution. She has 7 years working experiences

OWEDRAOGO Ouoba. Chief Operating Officer. He earned his DOCTORS degree on Plant Biology in 2018. He works as plant medecinal Doctor. He has about 15 years working experiences on plants biology and local medecine. 

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In recent years significant efforts have been made by local government to fight against the advencement of the desert towards the south  and to restructure forests and landscapes in the north of Burkina Faso, but results were very poor due to lack of well mandated methods within the local population. 

We do not need to seat back because, the problem is becoming more and more difficult to solve. The more the desert advance, the more we will have aride areas, If this continues africa will become a dasert. 

We are going to face this challange by sacrificing our lives and strength to fight against the advance of the desert and to restructure forests and landscapes in the north of the country. If we consider how the population is suffring from poverty, disease, lack of education, food insecurity, poor conditions of women and children, more efforts are needed to solve the problem. 

Our first action is to require funding for the project.

Our second action is to make a great move to solve the problem with in now to  2030. 

The climate regulation service provided by terrestrial ecosystems is real and substantial. It occurs through a variety of mechanisms, whose relative importance varies from place to place. The carbon storage mechanism at global scale has increased over the past few decades, largely through autonomous mechanisms (in other words, not as the result of deliberate human actions). The terrestrial carbon sink cannot continue to grow indefinitely. There are several feedback processes, which may cause it, perhaps within decades, to change from a sink at the global scale to a net carbon source, even though at local or regional scale some areas may remain as sinks.

The terrestrial carbon storage service is in general relatively vulnerable, both to climate itself and to associated environmental change factors such as changes in fires, windstorms, and pest outbreaks. It is also vulnerable to economic and political factors, which may or may not be linked to climate. The magnitude of the carbon storage service can be moderately increased at local scale through management actions, and at regional and global scale through policy decisions, but doing so tends to increase the vulnerability of the service. The vulnerability of the service can probably be significantly reduced, but not eliminated through a combination of management and policy actions.

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