Steps Purpose of evaluation As stated in the objectives, this study is intended to contribute to the further development and refinement of the Framework, through the lens of farming approaches to rice in Senegal. [...] Challenges to apply in the case of Senegal come from the importance of direct seeding in the SRV, the lack of equipment for mechanical transplanting and the use the rice straw and other rice by products for animal feeding (M. [...] To combat the phenomena of salinization, soil degradation and impoverishment and revitalize agroecological rice cultivation, projects and programs must support and expand the initiation of producers to the principles of the SRI, and set up a series of hydraulic structures that can support the need to manage water on SRI principles. [...] Another research gap, in supporting more organic forms of cultivation, is in balancing the trade- off between using the organic matter such as rice straw to improve the structure of the soil and rice productivity, and the need to feed livestock. [...] Much of the scientific literature has focused on the Jola people; as noted by Linares (2009): “The Jola have been among the most skilled rice producers of West Africa for centuries, growing both upland and flood rice in the inundated valleys and mangrove-lined river channels (marigots) lying along the flood plains and the tributaries of the Casamance River.
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