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National Action Program for Combating Desertification and Natural Resources Management

National Action Program for Combating Desertification and Natural Resources Management

Sustainable Development
Policy
2000
Year of publication
2000
Specific thematic area
Desertification
Sector of governance
Sustainable Development
Type of human mobility
Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Not available
Type of environmental driver
Desertification, Environmental and Land degradation
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Slow-onset
Sub-region
Western Africa
Region
Western Africa
Macro-region
Africa
Author/issuing body
National Environment Council for a Sustainable Development (CNEDD)
Relevant GCM objective
    GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse drivers
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available

Facing with major challenges posed by the satisfaction of basic needs of the population, the Government designed in 1992, a National Population Policy whose objective is to achieve a control of population growth and migratory flows in order to adjust them to an economic development conditions aiming at a substantial qualitative improvement of standards of living namely in rural area. [...] Rural in its majority, this population tempts to combat drought and desertification effects by developing survival strategies through intra-regional, inter-regional (from North to south), and transboundary migrations (Diffa and Tahoua regions cases), the production systems diversification (anti-risks systems), the livestock, land and natural resources decapitalization (wood and straw commercial exploitation). Despite its predominant role in demographic dynamic of some regions, migration, whose extent is unrecognized, constitutes in other respects an important factor of populations concentration in the southern zone in the south to of the 16th parallel on about on quarter of the total surface area of the country.

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).