USU has various research and technical assistance activities in multiple African countries focused on water, agriculture, and rangeland management. Current projects include a livestock collaborative research program in Ethiopia and Kenya working with pastoralists, as well as irrigation projects in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania and Guinea. USU is also developing educational partnerships with Mali and considering partnering with a project to restore Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique and use it to drive local economic development.

1. USU’s Research and Technical
Assistance Activities in Africa
Presentation to Africa : Rising Prospects Conference
August 26, 2009

3. Cape Verde Senegal
The Gambia
Cameroon
Uganda
Malawi
Lesotho

4. Country Water Agriculture Rangeland
Burkina Faso O
Cameroon O
Chad O
Cape Verde O O O
The Gambia O
Lesotho O
Kenya/Ethiopia O
Malawi O
Niger O O
Senegal O
Tanzania O
Uganda O O

7. Current Projects and Activities
• Global Livestock Collaborative Research
Support Program (GL-CRSP) project in Ethiopia
and Kenya
– PI Layne Coppock, Environment and Society
– Operated for 11 years
– Purpose was to help nomadic and semi-nomadic
herders (pastoralists) diversify income as a
response to cyclical intense droughts

8. 60+ CAGs formed in Kenya and Ethiopia since 1997 - are operating
independently
Over 2500 members affecting at least 10,000 people
Generating significant amounts of economic activity and
opportunity

9. Other Current/Recently Past
African Activities
• Burkina Faso – Irrigation institutions (Hill and Merkley)
• Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea – Irrigation (McKee
and Keith)
• Ecology of large mammals – South Africa (du Toit)
• Water systems – Ethiopia (Kaluarachchi)
• GIS systems – Senegal (Hubbard)
• Early Childhood Development – Rwanda (Austin)
• Faculty-led study abroad – Kenya and Ethiopia (Coppock)

10. Educational Project in
Development with Mali
• Utah universities working with Mali Rising
Foundation to develop opportunities for
Malian students to study in Utah and for Utah
students to have experiences in Mali

12. Gorongosa National Park Project
• Located in central Mozambique
• Was once a well-visited and heavily-animal
populated park. War of independence and
civil war almost eliminated the animals and
destroyed the tourist industry

13. USU graduate Greg Carr has taken on Gorongosa as a personal mission and has asked USU to
partner with him. His purpose is to restore the park and use it as an engine of economic growth
and development for the people in this part of Mozambique

14. Possible Gorongosa Activities
• Student service activities
• Research
• Technical assistance
Thank You!