Study site description: Ribeira Seca, Cape Verde

Table of Contents

1. Responsible IP partner
2. General information
3. Bio-physical description
4. Socio-economic description
   1. Population density and structure
   2. Level of education
   3. Level and sources of income
   4. Major livelihood sources
   5. Impacts of land degradation on livelihoods
   6. Major challenges to land resource management
   7. Major drivers of land degradation processes
   8. Other relevant socio-economic indicators
5. Institutional and political setting
6. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups
7. Past and on-going projects

Major livelihood sources

Irrigated agriculture is mostly composed of food crops (vegetables, banana, cassava, sweet potato) destined for subsistence of the families as well as for local and main markets. In the past, production of banana as a cash crop for exportation was very important but, with degradation of the resource base (lack of water, soil and water salinization, fertility decline, general drought), banana productivity has declined and production barely covers the needs of the population.