We work in the arid and semi-arid watersheds of the 19 northern states and the FCT, in Nigeria. The region is under threat of desertification, flood, Climatic variability and anthropogenic activities such as deforestation, extensive cultivation, overgrazing, high degradation of natural resources, poor agricultural productivity, increase poverty rates, an environment of fragility, conflict and violence, poor penetration of modern technology, weak institutional capacity, faulty irrigation systems, erosion etc.