Building up a new land management system "SLDACS" for combating desertification: applying urban waste and livestock-induced land rehabilitation in West Africa

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25300011
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: OYAMA Shuichi 京都大学, アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科, 准教授 (00322347)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 近藤 史 京都大学, アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科, 助教 (20512239) ; 堀 信行 奈良大学, その他部局等, 非常勤講師 (40087143) ; 佐川 徹 慶應義塾大学, 文学部, 助教 (70613579)
• Research Collaborator: HORI Kohjun ; SEERA Georgina
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 砂漠化対処 / 環境修復 / 在来知識 / 土地制度 / 都市衛生 / 土地荒廃 / 国際研究者交流 / アフリカ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we aim to establish a new land management system ”Systèm pour la Lutte contre la Désertification et l’Amélioration des Conditions Sanitaires(SLDACS)” and create a model for conflict prevention by combining the environmental restoration and improvement of urban hygiene launched in 2015 with the creation of grazing land, along with clarifying the outline of the research outcome to the present day. The project leader has resided in a farming community of Hausa people in southern Niger since 2000 and conducted research to elucidate the desertification mechanisms from the residents’ perspective and studied the indigenous knowledge on desertification and response by the residents. The land receives manure to maintain the nutrients in the soil at the same time. Many plant varieties are stimulated by passing through livestock’s stomach, and they sprout out and grow out of such manure into trees.

Free Research Field

地域研究、地理学、生態学、人類学