Samba Ndiaye, Trees&Life Senegal, September 2009
Ibrahima Sakho, Mozdahir Development, September 2009
A woman from the village of Teyel, September 2009
"I plant for delimiting my fields and protecting them from animals; I shall also collect honey."
Ibrahima Kane, Division Head of the National Forestry Commission, September 2009
"When I was a child at Saint-Louis (Northern frontier of Senegal), there was just a little a path between the thick forest and the river, and the monkeys were attacking the fields. Today, there are no more forests, fields and monkeys.”
Lecturer Peter Cox, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, 2009
“I can just congratulate you on the courage of your proposition that puts forward the simplest way of helping the most vulnerable populations to adapt themselves to climate changes and of allowing them to contribute to the slowdown of global warming.”
Madické Seck, Coordinator Trees & Life Senegal, 3 July 2009
“I propose planting more mango trees in the nursery of Teyel. Almonds are collected on the markets where children (Talibés) eat mangoes for taking out the almond and getting a little tip in return. Fruit trees have the advantage of being looked after by women groups, even after the rainy season (a clear high value).”
Madické Seck, Coordinator Trees & Life Senegal, 29 June 2009
“With the Colonel Moussa Diouf, we could rent a vehicle for some days and go in the 16 villages of the project (Foulamory Demba , foulamory Yero, Wakilaré, Santanto Djiba, Biarou, etc.). In each village, we met the chief, the worthies and the women’s groups with whom we talk a lot. We also made list of our seedlings needs (jatropha, fruit trees, forestry, ornamental, etc.) that exceed by far our predictions. Some close villages came even at the nursery of Teyel to take their seedlings. All the villagers currently undertake to enclose their jatropha fields. The Colonel insists a lot about fruit trees seedlings, that’s why I launched a slogan “One house, one fruit tree!
