1. Time to Rethink Development Assistance in the Sahel
- Author:
- Mark Wentling
- Publication Date:
- 05-2021
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- American Diplomacy
- Institution:
- American Diplomacy
- Abstract:
- The main assistance theme of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. embassies, other donors, and host government agencies in the impoverished Sahel Region of Africa has been focused for a decade on strengthening the resilience of rural households eking out a living on the edge of the Sahara Desert. More than 40 million people reside in this marginal arid geographic area, mostly pursuing subsistence agricultural and pastoral livelihoods. The countries most concerned by this effort to build rural resilience are Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Rural, Development Aid, USAID, and Resilience
- Political Geography:
- Africa, North America, Mali, Sahel, Niger, United States of America, and Burkina Faso