AVSF - Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans frontières (Senegal)

AVSF- supports small-scale livestock farming, also supports agricultural food production and the creation of fairer supply chains (often fair trade or organic) for products such as sesame and cashew nuts. Faced with the effects of climate change on smallholder farmers, AVSF helps the livestock farmers adapt to increasingly dangerous climate hazards (via reforestation, access to water, etc.) and conducts experiments on producing biogas from manure as a means of providing access to energy and limiting emissions of methane and CO2. In Senegal, AVSF supports smallholder farming in the face of industrial crop and livestock farming and worrying situations in terms of land concentration and development. Finally, AVSF strives in all of its activities to help women become more independent by strengthening organizations of women cashew and sesame producers and organizations of women poultry farmers, which have now become powerful, officially recognized cooperatives and federations.