Yemen

Further Development of Irrigated Agriculture on the Island of Socotra

• Funding: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Conseil Général of the Puy de Dôme, France
• Global budget: €300,000
• Duration: 24 months (January 2007 to December 2008)

This new project, incorporated in Triangle’s action on the island of Socotra, involves two new areas:
Qalansiya (at the north-west point of the island) and the Nogud Plain (south of the island).

Our aim is to improve the local communities’ eating habits, thereby the islanders’ nutrition, by:

• Developing new irrigated market gardening areas (according to the model implemented for our previous project in Socotra) and strengthening the abilities of the local offices attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation
• Implementing a forestry polyculture plantation system based on ancestral knowledge and on the date palm, in Nogud. This region has the advantage of presenting clay loam soil and important resources of water which is essential for this kind of culture
• Promoting biological, ancestral and new cultivation techniques, enabling good water management and the diversification of food crops to improve the nutrition/health situation on the island

Conducted in respect for the exceptional fauna and flora of Socotra, this project is a partnership with the INRA (National Institute for Agronomical Research) that will be providing its expertise to achieve better impact in terms of nutrition.