Sahel

From the previous week reading we discovered the Sahel. The Sahel is an area of West Africa which is home to a very unique environment. Within the passage, we learn about the after affects of the drought that has ravage the Sahel. As such, many different parts of the world try to come together and help this important area of Africa. As a result, many western influences were brought in to help reenergize the agriculture of the Sahel. But with their minimal knowledge of the Sahel their ideas soon failed. The system that has been In place for centuries in the Sahel is different. With extensive knowledge of how the environment works, the farmers and herders are the one who know how to correctly adapt the environment. The system is as the reading…

The Sahel is the hardest part of the Saharan region to live in. Due to the fact that the Sahel faces long term drought and desertification. It is very inadequate, that some countries even have advertisements to persuade their citizens to stop using wood for their homes and to switch to coal. In addition to the drought and desertification, the countries in the Sahel also have marginal land. Marginal land is land that is not suitable for farming. This makes it harder for the population to farm…

The bars on the upper side of the central line indicate more rain than the average. The ones drawn on the lower side indicate a decrease in rainfall below the average. The longer the drawn bar in the table, the greater the deviation from the average. From the figure, there were a lot of rainfalls in the years between 1950 and 1960. Just before 1970, a new drought started up to 2010 with very small aspects of rains. Since 1970, the Sahel region has witnessed a deficiency of…

rainfall can lead to desertification. This is where arid lands lose productiveness and become more desert like. The Sahel of West Africa is located just south of the Sahara desert is an example of a region that underwent desertification beginning in 1968. The desertification of the Sahel lead to failed rains and a long period of drought, resulting in famine in this region. This famine lead to a major loss in cattle, harvests, and ultimately killed a quarter of a million people (Marston et…

Sahel, West Africa a location that is highly dependent on the field of agriculture for survival. The study of this specific area of the world focuses on the conflict the community is having to continue the agricultural portion of their economy. It was stated in a recent study that, “about 65 percent of the cultivable land have been degraded.” (Warner, 2009). A large percentage of the land in West Africa is labeled as unsuitable for the production of agricultural products, which causes a…

Sahel the Struggling Land Reporter: Jillian Daly Sahel is one of the poorest and most vulnerable regions in Africa. It is situated south of the Sahara desert and stretches from Mauritania to Chad. Consequently it is constantly suffering from a continual negative cycle called food insecurity. Sahel suffers from desertification, poverty, conflict, natural disasters and population pressure which contributes to a continual negative cycle of food insecurity that needs to be broken. Today CARE a…

2.Countries in the Sahel region face various challenges. Among these challenges frequent climate change, desertification, deforestation, frequent food crises, extreme poverty, rapid population growth are the main ones. Basides to the natural problem of the region some other problems such as ethnic centrism, fragile governance, corruption, unresolved internal tensions, violent extremism and radicalization, illegal trafficking and terrorist-linked security threats affects the peace and security of…

desert. The Sahel lies on the southern border of the Sahara. This region receives more rain than the Sahara, but it often suffers from long periods of drought. Most of Sahel’s land is not appropriate for growing crops, which gave a hard time to the farmers living there. The Sahel are turning into a desert and it greatly affects the people who live there. People adapt living in the Saharan region. The Sahara has not always been so dry. Many thousands of years ago, the region had a much better…

north of Mali, as part of the War on Terror campaign happening in the Sahel region of the African continent. After the initial deployment on January 11, the French troops deployed combined with French airpower succeeded…

On the southern fringes of the Sahel desert of West Africa is one of the most extraordinary tribes on earth. They are despised by many of their neighbors and struggle to exist in such hostile environment; but for the Wadaabe nomads beauty is just as important as survival. The Wodaabe often compare themselves to birds, they move across the land almost as they please. They are beautiful like birds and just like birds of the wilderness, they put on a show to empress the women. Every year they…