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Senegal

Senegal

Senegal is a country in West Africa. Many people living in rural areas here depend on the land to grow food and make money. But land is rapidly losing its fertility and trees are being cut down.

As a result, over half of the population are living in poverty. Here, many people face insecurity over their rights to natural resources. Women in particular rarely have access to the land, equipment and training they need to grow food to eat and sell.

Our projects

Learn more about our work Growing the Olympic Forest in partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Please note that this project is taking place in both Senegal and Mali - learn more about the project on the Malian side of the border.

In progress

Growing the Olympic Forest

  • 0

    hectares of tree cover lost between 2000 and 2020

    (Global Forest Watch, 2022)

  • 0

    percent of people live in poverty

    (UNDP, 2024)

  • 0

    people are food insecure

    (UN World Food Programme, 2023)

Learn more about the Olympic Forest project from CEO, Tom Skirrow

"The project will combine enrichment planting and promotion of agroforestry systems, with the new planting of approximately 355,000 native diverse trees. We will be working in villages in two sub-catchment areas of the Senegal River and all of the restored project areas will be sustainably planned and managed by local people."

Read Tom's blog