Niger Acacia Senegal Plantation Project

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Tillabéri, City of Niamey, Dosso, Maradi, Zinder and Diffa, Niger

Niger Acacia Senegal Plantation Project

This first Nigerien ARR project activity (Niger Acacia Senegal Plantation Project, NASPP hereafter), aims to restore deforested and highly degraded land in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of the Republic of Niger by empowering rural communities to adopt sustainable agro-forestry practices by establishing plantations using native species Acacia senegalensis (Acacia Senegal). This project represents the first effort in Niger to establish Acacia Senegal plantations on a large scale in regions where dry forests are unable to regenerate by natural means. The sale of emission reduction credits from the carbon sequestered in plantations will make the project more viable by providing an additional revenue stream that will supplement income from the sale of gum arabic from the acacia trees.

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