Natural Resource Management InterCRSP Project (NRM InterCRSP)
Year: 1995-2002
Grant #: USAID Africa Bureau Grant AOT-0478-G00-5155-00 to AOT-G-00-95-0155-03
Grant Amount: $2,950,000
Location: Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Ghana
- Project Synthesis - “The NRM INTERCRSP Project in West Africa - A Synthesis of Four and One-Half Years of Fieldwork”
- Semi-Annual Progress Reports: Selected Technical Reports from the Field (2001-02)
The Natural Resource Management InterCRSP Project (NRM CRSP) seeks to mobilize available expertise and to build on the current knowledge and technology, the existing capacity, and the mandates of six CRSPs (Bean Cowpea, IPM, INTSORMIL, Peanut, SANREM, and Soil Management) working in West Africa to improve natural resource management within the region. The NRM CRSP accomplishes this by focusing on coordinating the collaborative research, training, technology transfer, and networking efforts of the participating CRSPs in regionally important thematic areas. The IPM CRSP was selected as the lead CRSP, and OIRD/Virginia Tech was selected as the Management Entity of this important effort to reduce natural resource degradation; improve soil, water, nutrient, crop and forest resources; reduce crop losses due to pests; and increase farm income to improve the quality of life for all people of the region.
The NRM InterCRSP is promoting water-harvesting techniques such as this ridge-tillage demonstration in Fansirakouro, Mali.