isaac c. acquah jnr. ,environmental protection agency of ghana ,cameroon regional workshop 2016

1. SUSTAINABLE LAND AND WATER
MANAGEMENT PROJECT
The use of Bamboo for restoration of degraded land
by
Isaac C. Acquah Jnr. of
Environmental Protection Agency of Ghana
at the
Regional Workshop on Bamboo and Rattan
Hotel Mont Febe
Yaoundé, Camaroon

2. Outline of Presentation
 Background and Introduction;
 Project Overview;
 Multi-sectorial Nature of the Project;
 Major Activities being undertaken by the
Project;
 Some types of Land Degradation;
 Bamboo-based Sustainable Land Management
Technologies

3. Background
 The SLWMP is a flagship project derived from Ghana’s
Strategic Investment Framework (GSIF) for SLM which
was prepared in 2010
 The GSIF identified the northern savannah zone of
Ghana as critical landscape for intervention.
 SLWMP started in the year 2011
 The project is designed around three components:
 (1) Capacity building for integrated spatial planning;
 (2) Land and Water Management, and
 (3) Project management and coordination.

4. Project Area

6. TARGET LANDSCAPE

7. Ghana SLWMP Project Overview
 As part of the WBG’s Sahel and West Africa Programme (SAWAP) in Support of
the Great Green Wall Initiative, and with financing support from GEF (US$ 16.9
million), Ghana has laid a strong foundation in developing and implementing
innovative and effective SLM programs and partnerships.
 Integrated landscape approach through Participatory watershed planning in 10
districts in the Northern Savannah Zone of Ghana
 Project Objective: to expand the area under sustainable land and water
management practices in selected watersheds (unchanged).

8. Multi-Stakeholder & Multi
Sector Project
 Multi- stakeholder platforms
strengthened to support
upscaling of integrated natural
resources management across
scales and sectors
 Implementing agencies and
partners
 National Agencies
 Ministry of Environment,
Science, Technology and
Innovation,
 Environmental Protection
Agency,
 Ministry of Food and
Agriculture,
 Forest Services Division,
 Wildlife Division,
Regional agencies
• 3 Regional EPA offices
• 3 Regional Departments of
Agriculture
• 3 Regional Managers of Forest
Services Division
• Regional Manager of Wildlife
Division
• Park managers
• Regional Water Resources
Commission
• 3 Regional Coordinating Councils
• Survey and Mapping Department
• National Fire Service
• Private sector
Implementing
agencies and partners

9. Implementing agencies and
partners cont’d
District level agencies Community level
• District Planning Office
• Department of Agriculture
• District Gender Office
• National Fire Service
• Community Water and
Sanitation
• Forest Services Division
• Wildlife Division
• Traditional authorities
• Opinion leader
• Assembly Man
• Farmers
• Community members

10. MAJOR ACTIVITIES :
• District / community watershed planning
• Engaging NGO’s /CS0 to promote SLWM
• Performance based Incentive structure for extension officers
• Capacity building for community level structures (CWMTs, CRMCs) and farmers
(i.e local sturdy tour, farmer to farmer extension)
• Establishment of demonstrations
• Strengthen the NSLMC
• Implementation of community sub-projects (riparian vegetation, SLWM
technologies (including root and tuber), water management systems, rangeland
management , restoration of degraded lands)
• Natural resource based livelihood support activities
• Post harvest management
• Implementation of CREMA management plans
• Piloting the PES
• Project Impact Evaluation
• Monitoring by local, Region and National level structures
• Maintaining the GIS M&E system
• Independent field verification by the NSLMC
• Regional learning workshops
• Project documentary

11. Community level activities
Community Sensitization Watershed management
Planning

12. Output of community participatory
watershed management planning
 Community watershed management plan
 This is used by community members to develop sub-
projects to address identified problems within the
community landscape
 Election of Community Watershed Management Team
(CWMT) to supervise implementation of community
interventions
 SLWMP support agricultural and natural resources
management interventions,
 Interventions outside the scope of the project is taken
up by the district planning officer for inclusion in the
District Medium Term Development Plans

13. SLWM interventions
Interventions include
soil, water and nutrient
management
agroforestry, livestock husbandry,
and
forest and alternative livelihoods

14. No burning Training of
farmers on Land
preparation

15. Land preparation: No-Tillage
Soil is covered with mulch at
planting
Planting is done directly
through the mulch

16. Maintaining soil health for
increased productivity
Soil organic matter help
maintain biological
processes, prevents
erosion, improves plant
nutrients, increases soil
carbon, increases
resilience to climate
change
• Protects soil against direct impact
of raindrops & sunshine
• Improves organic matter content of
soil and plant nutrient
• Serves as feed for insects and soil
organisms
• Slows down run off and increase
water infiltration
Cover Crops

17. Water management technologies
 In-field/on-farm water harvesting
Earth bunding
Stone bunding
 Bottle irrigation
 Buffer zone/Riverine re-vegetation

18. Use of A-Frame
District extension agents
preparing to train
farmers on the use of A-
Frame for picking
contours
Farmer demonstrating the
use of A-Frame for
constructing stone bunds to
World Bank Mission Team

19. Earth bunding

20. Stone bunds wrongly
constructed
The use of the A-Frame
assisted farmers to correct
wrongly done stone bunds
and also to create more
planting space.

21. Bottle Irrigation
Climate Change
adaptation –
ensuring that tree
seedlings survive
during the long
dry season. NB
without the
mulch = high
evaporation
Mulch plus
bottle
irrigation

22. Buffer zone/riverine re-vegetation

23. Plant nutrient management
technologies
 No burning of crop residue
 Compost preparation and use
 Cover cropping
 Crop rotation
 Mixed cropping

24. Crop Rotation
Soyabean field to be replaced
with maize next season
Maize field to be replaced
with soyabean next season

25. Mixed cropping
Intercropping Strip cropping

26. Compost preparation and use

27. Agroforestry and tree planting
 Fruit tree cultivation
 Alley cropping
 Woodlot
 Boundary tree planting

28. Fruit tree cultivation

29. Tree growing
TEAK CASSIA

30. Pigeon pea
planted as fodder
banks
Harvested fodder
bank for dry
season feeding of
livestock

31. Forest Management
Park management
activities
law enforcement

32. Community
engagement in tree
nurseries
CREMA Activities
- Bee keeping

33. Some types of Land Degradation

34. Pwalugu River

35. Sissili River at Domga; Sissili River at
Nyandema/Kalaasa; Sissili river at
Bechonsa

37. Restoring degraded land with Bamboo

38. Bamboo-based sustainable land
management technologies
 Bamboo has great potential to help restore degraded lands and protect
watersheds;
 Bamboo rhizomes and roots develop remain alive and rooted in the soil,
producing new shoots each year and not destroy by wildfires;
 It is very resilient, able to withstand floods and wildfires;
 Bamboo leaves could play a potentially important role in providing a
sustainable source of fodder and feed;
 Bamboo can significantly reduce water runoff and soil erosion because of its
extensive rhizome and rooting system;
 Bamboo component of SLM is to improve bamboo-based livelihoods
and reduce land degradation through associated bamboo-based
environmental services;

39. THANK YOU VERY MUCH