Soil as a major composition of carbon with the capacity to store more carbons which are responsible for climate change than all other components of the earth put together has gone serious problems.
Due to the growth of industries and human population the demand of land keeps increasing and the degradation, deforestation, depletion and poor management of the soils has led to the excessive loss of carbons as major greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
We strongly contributes to collective efforts towards food security, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and therefore have a specific relevance to the national, continental and global framework to combat desertification and biological diversity.
SSGM finalized the plan for the review of the 2020-20230 strategic development plan, and currently talking to a consultant to be hired to review the strategic development plan.
Six monitoring exercises visits were conducted in 2021 and the project sites visited are in West Coast, Lower River Region, North Bank Region and Central River Regions where the Soil Doctors Programme is intervening to monitor activities of the programme and providing technical backstopping.
The Soil Solution, host one of the most important and interesting programme in the Gambia. The Soil Doctor Programme (SDP), is a farmer-to-farmer training initiative that was developed by the Global Soil Partnership (GSP).
he Survey was basically targeting some few soil parameters so as to have some knowledge of the fertility of the soil and to neutralize any soil problem recommended by the survey.