Towards security of tenure for farmers in large scale irrigated rice schemes in the Sahel

This is the Final Communiqué from a regional workshop on the theme: “Towards security of tenure for farmers in large scale irrigated rice schemes in the Sahel” which was held on 2nd and 3rd June 2014 in Bamako, Mali.

The workshop was organised by the Global Water Initiative (GWI) in West Africa, which is implemented by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The workshop was held in partnership with CILSS (the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel), ARID (Association Régionale pour l’Irrigation et le Drainage) and ILC (International Land Coalition), and funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation through GWI.