Ecological engineering for sustainable agriculture in arid and semiarid West african regions

Issue 11 ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN ARID AND SEMIARID WEST AFRICAN REGIONS Comité Scientifique Français de la Désertification French Scientific Committee on Desertification Les dossiers thématiques du CSFD Issue 11 Managing Editor Richard Escadafal CSFD Chair Senior scientist,Institut de recherche pour le développementat the Center for the Study of(IRD ) the Biosphere from Space (CESBIO, Toulouse, France) Coordinators Dominique Masse,dominique.masse@ird.fr Agronomy-ecology,Institut de recherche pour le développement(IRD) Jean-Luc Chotte,jean-luc.chotte@ird.fr Soil ecology-microbial diversity, IRD Éric Scopel,eric.scopel@cirad.